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Bob Bufkin

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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2010, 11:09:50 AM »
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Various subclasses of x58 made it to PC and Conrail.  Do one in Conrail and I kinow the Conrail Queens will grab it up.
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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2010, 11:35:19 AM »
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The best MTs are usually the undec ones...so you can paint them to look something like an actual car.

Nothing for me this month in that list.
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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2010, 12:20:35 PM »
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It strikes me that ESM and the X58 are a perfect match.  ESM does Eastern road-specific cars in multiple schemes and road numbers.  And tons made it to Conrail.  I woul want several, each in a different scheme since so many variations on PRR, PC, CR, and LV were still extant in 1980.

For me, MTL is best for the one-offs (or the TT TOFC runner pack -- thanks!) and folks like ESM for building a fleet of a road-specific car.  Atlas and Athearn do fine filling in the rest (with some help from FVM and the like).

The company who brought us the G26 and soon the XiH has got to be the right one for the X58!

In the meantime I'm calling my LHS to reserve Joe's new Pennsy 40-footer.
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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2010, 12:32:23 PM »
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Still watching for a part number on the new "mid pro" 33" wheelsets. I need some to play with!
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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2010, 02:30:24 PM »
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They will be available June 1 at this point.

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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2010, 04:22:08 PM »
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Quote from: Shipsure on April 01, 2010, 02:30:24 PM
They will be available June 1 at this point.

Joe
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Thanks Joe, saved me asking the question ;D

Cheers,

Kev
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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #21 on: April 01, 2010, 08:19:34 PM »
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Joe, I am still craving more information on the pending heavyweights!  Any idea when we might get more info?
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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #22 on: April 02, 2010, 10:18:10 AM »
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I'll post some shots later today.  We have the underframes coming out of the tooling as we speak.  Not sure of the release month, but it is very soon.

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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #23 on: April 02, 2010, 12:45:33 PM »
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Ooh! Ooh! Halloween train! :o
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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #24 on: April 02, 2010, 01:05:32 PM »
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how many can I put you down for?   ;D
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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #25 on: April 02, 2010, 01:38:16 PM »
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Joe,

Any chance of getting an Eries Western Evans Covered Hopper?
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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #26 on: April 02, 2010, 06:41:47 PM »
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Okay...  Then I saw this under Z scale:



This is the northeastern steel caboose we've been after, and whose re-release of the LifeLike version by Walthers has sparked so much discussion.  Why has this not been done by MTL in N?

Burlington Northern?  Really...? Really...? ;D

Seriously, though, I guess I'm late to the party, because I didn't know Z scale had one.
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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #27 on: April 02, 2010, 06:59:56 PM »
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Quote from: Dave Vollmer on April 02, 2010, 06:41:47 PM
Seriously, though, I guess I'm late to the party, because I didn't know Z scale had one.

I'll say. That's been around since 1987. And M-T has lettered it for Sante Fe, Atlantic Coast Line, Baltimore & Ohio, Canadian Pacific, Conrail, Erie Lackawanna, Great Northern, Lehigh Valley, New York Central, Pacific Electric, Penn Central, Pennsylvania, Reading, Rock Island, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Western Pacific.
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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #28 on: April 02, 2010, 07:15:22 PM »
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Well, David, I'm as ignorant of Z as most HO guys are of N I guess! ;D
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Re: April Micro-Trains
« Reply #29 on: April 02, 2010, 07:53:09 PM »
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Quote from: Dave Vollmer on April 02, 2010, 07:15:22 PM
Well, David, I'm as ignorant of Z as most HO guys are of N I guess! ;D

No problem, that's why they let a Z nut-case like me hang around, I guess.
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