New Heavyweight Baggage car suggestions for MTL

[bbussey]

Not so fast... and not so easy... most of the equipment found under the MT coach, parlor and Pullmans are inappropriate for a baggage car and would tale a lot of new tooling to adapt them to fit a typical baggage car.

It's still just an inset piece though, which they modify for each body configuration anyway by shuffling the features around.  That would be the least of the issues.  The bigger issue is that there aren't enough roads/schemes to justify an 80' baggage car.

I do not get the posts about WOT
as long as it has been that I have found and followed their website
everything listed especially in 60' PRR type is NOT IN STOCK
so do they really offer it
or was it a "they once offered it" but now no longer
and one will have to be lucky enough to find one one eBay and the $ it will demand

This, I don't understand.  Limited runs are the nature of the industry now.  The WOT baggage cars do get reissued from time to time, and they stay available long enough for people to get them.  If you come to the party late, you have no choice but to scour the secondary market no matter who manufactured the item.  And that's aside from the fact that I don't recall WOT ever tooling a model based on a Pennsylvania prototype or ever releasing a model even decorated for Pennsylvania.

[NYC1956]

...Cut a new slide for the sides and you are almost there.
They already have a 60' car....

This brings to mind two suggestions:
1. New slide for an updated RPO (which many of us would prefer over the original).
2. New slide for a 60' baggage car with clerestory roof.
[WOT made a 60' Harriman style baggage car]

[VonRyan]

Anything PRR. I'm planning on buying at least one diner.

[Specter3]

Shorter short.er short..er repeat.

60-72 ft would be more interesting to me.

I have no interest in an 80 ft baggage only.

[jmlaboda]

So did anyone catch the glimpse diner MT has provided in their new 2014 Product Guide???  The small, raised  kitchen windows is very encouraging!!!

[Nato]

             That Erie car would be mighty nice, so would the three door Southern Pathetic car. A Harriman roof could be offered as a replacement part. For us Foob Lovers out there I would suggest the 80 foot "Curious George" Banana and monkey transport car. Nate Goodman (Nato).

[jmlaboda]

A Harriman roof could be offered as a replacement part.

Or better still a proper arched roof since they were more numerous and less lumpy than the Harriman roofs... B

[dougnelson]

I'd like to see a theater car, personally. You can name the PRR ones cool things like "Wagner" and "Lohengrin."

Hi Josh:

Hell Gate Models is working on a PRR B70a scenery car kit.  Your Broadway dreams may come true.

Doug Nelson

[DaveB]

I might buy an 80' B&O baggage.  I would definitely pick up several 60'  baggage or express based on the RPO, from pretty much any road

[sirenwerks]

Or better still a proper arched roof since they were more numerous and less lumpy than the Harriman roofs... B

What he said.  (See my post @ https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=32179.0)

[chicken45]

Hi Josh:

Hell Gate Models is working on a PRR B70a scenery car kit.  Your Broadway dreams may come true.

Doug Nelson

I believe this gif sums up my excitement at that, Doug.


Now I have to ask "when?" Q2? Q3?

[jmlaboda]

Hell Gate Models is working on a PRR B70a scenery car kit.

Would be an interesting and unusual car to have!!!

http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/PRRdiagrams.html?diag=b70a.gif&sel=bagg&sz=sm&fr=

[wm3798]

Not sure what the overall length of this was, but it's an interesting car.  I like the single/double baggage doors and the 6 wheel trucks...

Could be offered in WM green and dulux gold, or in red MOW livery. 

You've already done the other WM Camp Cars, you might as well finish out the MOW train with one of these!

Lee

[JoeD]

So I am lobbying for a 70' car, preferably one that was never used in any way on NH  and have added some design surprises if I get the go ahead this week.  The version with the wider spaced doors is different enough from the WOT car to make it a viable candidate.  I think it will be easy to pivot to Combines on a frame like this.  Also, thanks tons for all the suggestions and the unusual disipline everyone exhibited staying on subject and keeping kneecapping down to a minimum.  Much appreciated. 

A few expressed their dismay with my initial request for an 80' subject and forwarded that dismay it to Eric via email.  Please don't do that in the future...give me the first shot to deal with suggestions and concerns and maintain some respect for chain of command around here.  If you don't like what I have to say, or are insistant in adding 30 more hours of research on top of a 50 hour work week then you can move past GO and contact him directly.  Personally I enjoy going home for a few hours to wash my knickers, eat food that isn't dispensed from a vending machine and say hello to sugar ants hauling off my double stuffed oreos. You don't want to upset the guy pulling the trigger  ..."damn, you mean we can't ever, ever buy Pennsy paint ever, ever again???"

Cheers

Joe

[peteski]

So I am lobbying for a 70' car, preferably one that was never used in any way on NH  and have added some design surprises if I get the go ahead this week.  The version with the wider spaced doors is different enough from the WOT car to make it a viable candidate.  I think it will be easy to pivot to Combines on a frame like this.  Also, thanks tons for all the suggestions and the unusual disipline everyone exhibited staying on subject and keeping kneecapping down to a minimum.  Much appreciated. 

Wow!  What a great show of a small elite collective of modelers in action!  When the reasoning behind selecting a specific prototype to model is clearly explained, and it is logical, manufacturers actually listen.