BLMA Spines, F89J (brown) and Trinity Reefers are out...

[sizemore]

http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/N-Scale-s/3.htm


The S.

[bc6]

Thanks for causing my wallet to cry lol.

[FrankCampagna]

And the brown flats are gone already  .

Frank

[C855B]

And the brown flats are gone already  .

Of course. Two friggin' years of pent-up demand if you missed the pre-order period.

[Dave V]

Waiting for my ChuckPak.

[Bob Bufkin]

+1

[sizemore]

If you use MTS just add yourself to the "notify me when in-stock". MTS doesn't always throw a large quantity up there, they allot some for the website while the rest go to the warehouse. They'll move some from the warehouse to web, which makes the "notify" email all that more valuable.
 
HTH,
The S.

[davefoxx]

Alas, the spine cars are too new and the flats too old for my era.     Hopefully, we'll see some future releases appropriate for intermodal trains in the 1980s.

That said, all is not lost this week; MBK finally received the Kato N scale Amtubes in Phase III paint!  My Kato F40PH will finally have something appropriate to pull by Tuesday.

DFF

[Mark5]

A few pix:



Other end coupled to TWX 85'


Holes for the hitches:


The model comes with 4 hitches - two appear to be for modelling them in the down position:



It appears that BLMA decided to tool these to scale - this is a bit of a problem as none of my trailers would "mount" the BLMA hitches (this photo manipulated to emphasize the view of the "hitch hole" compared to the hitch on the Trainworx flat):

[FrankCampagna]

I had pre-ordered the flats, had to cancel them last year do to financial uncertainty. Another example of the joys of the pre-order/very limited run system. I can live without them.

Frank

[nkalanaga]

Another excuse for changing kingpins.  I long ago standardized on 1/32 inch brass rod for my trailers, which is probably still too large, but was easy to find.  In the 70s and early 80s models came with wildly differing pins, including a few (Arnold especially) that put the pin on the hitch and a hole in the trailer.  Plus, I can use the same ones for scratchbuilt trailers, and any trailer will work with any tractor or flatcar, but most flatcar hitches need to be modified.  BLMA's look like they may work for me as-is.

I also have some reserved with Chuck, so will be forking out some serious money soon...

[unittrain]

I have 4 coming from BLMA 

[Mark5]

I saw the reefers too, they blow the ER versions away!

[mplsjct]

It looks like the brown flats are even more popular than the 85' yellow flats released by Trainworx a while back, can't seem to find them anywhere.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Waiting for my ChuckPak.

Yep.