Your Santa Wishlist to Manufacturers for 2020

[pdx1955]

Atlas: Norfolk & Western passenger GP9 Redbird.
         Ex Lifelike E7 Texas Special
         Rock Island Geeps in maroon and white stripes
         
Kato: Train of Tomorrow (toured throughout the country, sold to UP)

Gerry

The Train of Tomorrow would make a neat "bookcase" set - I'd love to have the City of Seattle version.

Others on my list:
-NCL or frankly any good smooth-side mid-train Budd dome at this point (something to go with the LS, IM, Walthers cars)

-1930s-50's carbon black cars

-WOT - lumber loads for their 53' flats; conversion kit for early SP TOFC

-SP B-50-15 boxcars (signature SP car - perfect for a kit manufacturer who isn't going to promise something, take $$,  then disappear off the face of the earth. An N version of Westerfield Models would be great!)

-Baldwin DRS/AS road switchers

[CodyO]

Atlas: Norfolk & Western passenger GP9 Redbird.
         Ex Lifelike E7 Texas Special
         Rock Island Geeps in maroon and white stripes
         
Kato: Train of Tomorrow (toured throughout the country, sold to UP)

Gerry

Lowell smith is supposed to have BLI do a special run in Frisco

[nkalanaga]

"It is my understanding that those dies got "lost" in China."

Well, if a new company suddenly appears, advertising these models, we know what happened!

[johnb]

-SP B-50-15 boxcars (signature SP car - perfect for a kit manufacturer who isn't going to promise something, take $$,  then disappear off the face of the earth. An N version of Westerfield Models would be great!)

how about a laser cut kit that fits on a MTL floor?

[Joetrain59]

Alco T6
D&H Challenger
LIRR G5s
 And, hmmmm, let me think;)
 All in N for me.
 Joe D

[dem34]

D&H Challenger

Yes, yes, yes. I think as a more general thing it would be nice to just have a few non Union Pacific Challengers around on the market.

NVM, I'm an idiot, Athearn made those roadnames.

[kiwi_bnsf]

Merry Christmas everyone.

I’ve been enjoying this thread.

As a modeller of Tehachapi in the late 1990’s, 2019 has been a very good year thanks to the following:

  - Tangent Scale Models H100 hoppers
  - Scale Trains Rivet Counter Dash 9s (I thanked all my Kato Dash 9s as they were sold)
  - Briggs Models NSC Coil Care kits (get well soon Jeff)
  - Jacksonville Terminal containers, tank containers, and container chassis (these are amazing)
  - Athearn GATX Tank Train further releases
  - Athearn 28’ pup trailer re-releases (finally)
  - Fox Valley Models PS4750 and PS4740 covered hoppers (ex-Red Caboose with the nicely upgraded roof and bodymounts)
  - Atlas (ex-BLMA) Bx-166 and Bx-177 ATSF and BNSF boxcars with the correct paint colours (BLMA got these wrong)


For 2020 my picks are very similar to @GaryHinshaw (if biased earlier by a few years). I’m surprised to find the many of my picks are really requests for upgrades of existing tooling or re-releases of models that have been already produced…

  - Southern Pacific AC4400CW from Scale Trains (I’ve given up waiting on Kato)
  - Tunnel Motors from Scale Trains (I’ve given up waiting on Intermountain)
  - SD75M/I (Kato or Scale Trains — the Athearn tooling is not great)
  - GP50s (both BN and ATSF style cabs)
  - GP40L (I thought Atlas had confirmed these at some show?)
  - Acid tanks (Athearn please can you upgrade your ex-MDC tooling)
  - 57’ 3-unit spine cars (RTR version for TTRX 36XXX-37XXX series)
  - 48’ 5-unit spine cars (RTR version  for TTAX 77XXX series)
  - Thrall 5-unit and single well cars (the Walthers tooling is terrible)
  - NSC early 48’ 3-car and 4-car drawbar well cars (JTC could do these…)
  - 53’ JB Hunt Containers (waiting on Fox Valley who have shown correct CAD/tooling)
  - 48’ Trailers (no one including Atlas seems interested in producing 48 footers for the last ten years)
  - BLMA 100T trucks from Atlas
  - Fox Valley wheels

I’m really hanging out for all the ex-Red Caboose tooling from Fox Valley — Centerbeams and Bilevel Autoracks are sorely needed.

I know Atlas have been through a lot with their factory woes, but I would really like to see them do more with their tooling. The new SD60E has a fresh chassis with ESU Loksound and operating ditch lights, but the SD50/60 re-release gets the same old shell with no ditch lights (despite the paint schemes being ultra-modern). Also, all the ex-Walthers releases from Atlas are virtually unchanged tooling, but are branded as “Master Line” and priced quite high. This is not intended so much a whinge, but an observation that I see several other manufacturers pushing the envelope with finer wheelsets, better road-specific and era-specific details, upgraded older tooling with body mounted couplers, at similar or lower prices.

Kato continue to sit on their existing tooling — I hope the rumours of SD70M flat radiator and SD40 releases happen.

Anyways, I'm already grateful for the last 12 months, and  I'm not sure my wallet can cope with this pace anyway… so peace out.

Cheers

Tim

[nkalanaga]

OK, might as well throw my request out.  I want a MILW Boxcab electric.  I don't care who makes it, as long as it's reasonably well detailed, and runs well.  If I'm going to be picky, I want an EF-2, with the short center unit, in orange and maroon, but I will be happy with an EF-1, don't care if it's 1950s O&M or 1960s orange and black, and can paint my own.

[VonRyan]

For N:

More WWII era (and earlier) rolling stock.
PRR B6, E6, A5, D16, and H6/8/9/10.
GWR "City" class.
GWR 4-wheel coaches.
GWR Clerstory coaches.
GWR Dean Goods
More variety of GWR freight stock.


For On30:

2-axle Plymouth or a Brookville.
Bachmann retool the chassis for their V-tippers to exclude the brake stand and make the chassis symmetrical finally.

[garethashenden]

GP7s and GP9s with sound. Preferably B&M Bluebirds for the GP9s if I’m extra lucky.

[thomasjmdavis]

-SP B-50-15 boxcars (signature SP car - perfect for a kit manufacturer who isn't going to promise something, take $$,  then disappear off the face of the earth. An N version of Westerfield Models would be great!)

I would like to see these and many more of the road-specific cars from the 1920s.  I lost a few bucks in that deal, too. But only had a couple bought and paid for on the "preorder special price" so my financial exposure was limited.  Proved once again that a deal that seems too good to be true, is indeed too good to be true.

how about a laser cut kit that fits on a MTL floor?

I don't think a laser cut kit would be practical since the prototype had a radial roof (IIRC) and metal ends, and metal truss framing with rivets. The only part that looks like it could easily be "laser cut" is the sheathing.   The underframe is also modified from the 1923 ARA (which MT does not make, so not sure what "MTL floor" would work.

Here is a link to a review of the Westfield kits in HO- with some pics... http://blog.resincarworks.com/workbench-wednesday-17/

OK, I looked it up....in addition to the radial roof, some came with Hutchins and Viking roofs (perhaps a bit easier to locate).   

[GhengisKong]

For Kato to do an E6 and to make the E7 have multiple road features available.

[High Hood]

An update for mine, FVM to do another a run Southern Ortners but in the 79xxx number series and run in the post-merger black “Claytor” scheme.

[Doug W]

Most of the items on the 2018 edition of this list have actually been released and/or announced

Not so for me. 

Still waiting for Intermountain's second run of the N scale SD45-2, which was announced nearly a decade ago. Frankly, I'd be very happy if someone else (like ScaleTrains) would step into the breach at this point. 

Beyond that and the U36C mentioned earlier in this thread, I'd take anything in Clinchfield black. Atlas could do GP7s, GP9s, GP38s. Intermountain and Kato could do F7s and FP7s. And Kato could do SD40s and SD45s. But Kato never will, so I am hoping that the ScaleTrains HO scale SD45 announcement will eventually translate into a N scale SD45 and then an SD40. 

Cheers
Doug

[Curtis Kyger]

PECO N-Scale track with correct North American crosstie sizing and spacing
Atlas; how about a U28B and U33B