Micro-Trains July 2017 Releases

[JoeD]

I wonder if there is some photographic proof available somewhere (no I didn't take any photos).

Thee's no photographic proof you exist on Railwire but we still hang on to every word you write 

Joe

[daniel_leavitt2000]

That NASA hydrogen car is priced pretty good for the amount of specialty work required.

[Philip H]

Thee's no photographic proof you exist on Railwire but we still hang on to every word you write 

Joe

Sadly for you there is proof from the n Scale convention - unless that was a clever cut out in the group picture.

I am digging that Linde car and the GM&O box

[James Costello]

I'm digging those DODX flats.  I might have to place an order for those.

Agreed, those DODX flats and tanks look great!

[unittrain]

https://www.micro-trains.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=63_64
I'll take some PS-1s hope there's plenty more to come. Are these body couplers they look to still be truck mounts

[wcfn100]

https://www.micro-trains.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=63_64
I'll take some PS-1s hope there's plenty more to come. Are these body couplers they look to still be truck mounts

I was just looking at those thinking the same thing.  They don't appear to be any lower either.

Jason

[Glenn Poole]

Did they really retool these 3 box cars and not lower them and install body mounted couplers?

[peteski]

@Shipsure

Like Daniel said, there is photographic evidence that peteski really exists.  even shook his hand to verify that I'm not a hologram.  He is also on the first name basis with MTL's Eric Smith. 
But just between us Joe, the guy at the convention was just a doppelganger - the real peteski was 600 miles away, resting comfortably in his recliner. 

Joe, is that injection-molded M1 tank made by MTL in-house, or made by another model company? Will the M1 tank be available separately?

EDIT: just read Joe's other DODX flats thread.

[jmlaboda]

144-00-709 Baltimore & Ohio business car “Silver Spring”

The car did not receive the Silver Springs name until well after the 70s, carrying the name Wayside until at least 1980.  The first shots of it being came after year 2000.

Nice DRGW car... can live with a foobie like that given the likelihood of the prototype car never being modeled.  Really sharp.

(If you saw what I wrote earlier... well... I give up.)

[gbcaboose]

I really like the GM&O car.   They had over 3000 of these green "Cushioned....." and "DF" single door cars delivered in the '60's, yet this the first factory painted model of these cars since the less than spectacular  Concor and Bev-Bel cars released in the 80's (maybe even the 70's).

Mike

[peteski]

(If you saw what I wrote earlier... well... I give up.)

I saw it and should have quoted you for posterity. 
I like a person with strong convictions who is not afraid to speak their mind (especially if he has supporting photographic evidence or other documentation to prove he is correct). 

But the verbiage was a bit strong - it is probably for the best that you edited your post.

[coosvalley]

What no New England roads?!!

New England, where's that? I don't think MT makes european trains  

[jmlaboda]

But the verbiage was a bit strong - it is probably for the best that you edited your post.

Yah, I thought better of myself once I went back.  But if you actually knew what it has cost MT in tooling alone not getting a car right you would think that they would learn from it.  But no... they keep making the same sort of mistakes... so why bother chiding them.

[central.vermont]

New England, where's that? I don't think MT makes european trains  

Well I was going to say don't pull a Kato on us and not produce anything east of the Mississippi but they tossed us the GM&O car. 

Jon

[peteski]

Yah, I thought better of myself once I went back.  But if you actually knew what it has cost MT in tooling alone not getting a car right you would think that they would learn from it.  But no... they keep making the same sort of mistakes... so why bother chiding them.

I do have a rough idea about the cost of developing and tooling an injection molded styrene model.  But I'm sure they will still sell enough models to make profit.  But I agree that even with all the research material available out there nowadays they still make mistakes. Then there are other design problems like the chasms between the boards on the Rapido meat reefer cars. But that is water under the bridge.