Runner pack ideas?

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Hi Joe and everyone...
I just received my third runner pack: the P&W hoppers. These are great! I also wanted to give a quick thanks for the TT opera window centerbeams.

Any chance of getting runner packs of the 56' tanks in UTLX, or RailBox ABOX cars? I can provide plenty of photos for the UTLX cars. No one has run the ABOX cars in a while, though there have been plenty for RBOX.

What other runner packs would be a good idea?

[amato1969]

+1 for some 1970s UTLX tank cars, or how about some PRR or PC 100-ton hoppers?

  Frank

[ljudice]

Some ideas:

- 8 pack Conrail triple hoppers
- 8 pack CSXT triple hoppers

[pjm20]

Probably about any model of hopper would be well received.

[brokemoto]

The B&O HW coaches

The P&LE gondolas

Any of the thirty six foot wood refrigerators

[lock4244]

I'd love to see a runner pack of the weathered FPBX skeleton log car. Imo, the weathered car is the finest car MTL has ever released.

[mplsjct]

BN early 100 ton hoppers please, without the rotary coupler end painted white...


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[Ed Kapuscinski]

Jewish high holiday cars.

[Kisatchie]

I'd like a Southern (Gives a green light to innovation) 50' box car runner pack. I already bought the Southern 50' gondola runner pack - Thanks, Micro-Trains!


Hmm... I could use a
runner pack of banana
reefers...

[wazzou]

Northern Pacific PS4427 Covered Hopper runner pack...oh wait, you'd need to make it available as a single car first.   

[bbussey]

MTL has released schemes as runner packs prior to a single-car item on occasion.

[Denver Road Doug]

56' tanks in UTLX

+1 for the UTLX runner pack, with the following "recipe":
-Faded black paint job, varied by car (at least 2-3 variations...doesn't have to be every single one different.)
-Weathered, with a ratio of 25% light, 50% medium, and 25% heavy (By heavy I mean nice top rust and otherwise more medium treatment.   Shouldn't look like it's been sitting in a scrap yard for two decades.)
-Rust colored wheels and couplers. (or better yet factory-body mount rust couplers, then we could use BLMA trucks/wheels and be rocking and rolling!)
-No "Garish" Graffiti.   I know it sells well but you've already done some with the over-the-top stuff.  More conservative line graffiti would be ok, but I would like to see at least half be fairly clean of art.
-No Conspicuity Stripes!   Can easily be added after the fact.   Rule: if real car didn't come with them from the factory, don't apply them!   You're killing earlier era buyers if you do.
Follow that, keep releasing them, and I swear I'll keep buying 4 or 8 packs until you hit, say, 24 or maybe even 32 numbers or so.

Others I would buy:

1. BN Rotary Scheme 100-ton Hoppers.  4 or 8 packs, with similar recipe as the UTLX cars above.
2. PS4427 Hoppers in Generic/Elevator schemes.  4 or 8 packs with at least somewhat legit, and era-proximity, schemes.  Similar recipe, but could tolerate one graf'd up car in the mix.

[wazzou]

MTL has released schemes as runner packs prior to a single-car item on occasion.

Oh, I know...I was more or less just expressing my thoughts over a legit body style seemingly having been ignored for awhile.  MT could probably release a new scheme on that car each month for a couple of years.

[nsbob]

MTL has already made the single cars, runner packs of NS H65-H69 100 ton hoppers.

[basementcalling]

NAHX or GATX grain or chemical hoppers, or other private road names would appeal here, though I know most companies say that specific road name schemes outsell independently owned rolling stock.