Micro Trains November Releases

[peteski]

No its not 'a' fish.
It is Japanese for 'roll' as in sushi, which often contains fish, hence... corruption of primary form.
What you may be thinking of is Mahi Mahi >  https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jSwyBEi2YI4/hqdefault.jpg

~dw

 I wrote that in jest (ending the statement with a  as an additional hint about the meaning of my post).  But thanks for the explanation. I never took the time to look up the actual meaning.

[cfritschle]

I finally got around to looking at the sugar beet load in the GN wood chip car on Micro-Trains website.  Those are some of the best looking N scale sugar beets that I have seen.  I am hoping Micro-Trains will consider making a similar load for their 3-bay open hopper.  It would be great if it could look something like this one.



I could even use a runner pack!   









I only included photos of beet loads in UP H-90-5 hoppers.  I have a lot more photos of sugar beet loads in additional classes of UP hoppers if Micro-Trains is interested.   

[JoeD]

nice...let me look into this.

Joe

I finally got around to looking at the sugar beet load in the GN wood chip car on Micro-Trains website.  Those are some of the best looking N scale sugar beets that I have seen.  I am hoping Micro-Trains will consider making a similar load for their 3-bay open hopper.  It would be great if it could look something like this one.



I could even use a runner pack!   









I only included photos of beet loads in UP H-90-5 hoppers.  I have a lot more photos of sugar beet loads in additional classes of UP hoppers if Micro-Trains is interested.   

[cfritschle]

Joe,

Thanks for looking into this.  I could also use around 50 sugar beet loads for the fleet of open hoppers I already have.   

[samusi01]

The NP didn't use as many three bay hoppers but they did use two bay and 40' drop bottom gons... I did have my pusher reach out to MTL about securing more of the beet loads (I could use 15-20 more for the existing fleet) but he told me that MTL had completely consumed the first run of loads and no spares were available. So please add me to the list of interested folks.

[Sharky_McSharknose]

Did they ever fix the tooling on that body style or is it still vertically challenged?

Well, I wound up buying the PC appliance boxcar. It's the same height as an older version (1999 release per this site: http://www.irwinsjournal.com/umtrr/index.htm?http://www.irwinsjournal.com/umtrr/ms-pctocr.htm) I have. On a side note, that looks like a popular one to weather! I've seen it in a banner on this website, that webpage, and I weathered one myself!

By "vertically challenged" do you mean it is too tall or too short?

[bbussey]

Well, I wound up buying the PC appliance boxcar. It's the same height as an older version (1999 release per this site: http://www.irwinsjournal.com/umtrr/index.htm?http://www.irwinsjournal.com/umtrr/ms-pctocr.htm) I have. On a side note, that looks like a popular one to weather! I've seen it in a banner on this website, that webpage, and I weathered one myself!

By "vertically challenged" do you mean it is too tall or too short?

What MTL/Kadee used to do in the past is raise the ride height of the model to clear the truck-mounted couplers, then "compress" the body height of the model so that the scale roof height is where it would be if the model wasn't raised to clear the coupler.  The newer tooling doesn't suffer from this design choice, but many of the models tooled in the '80s and '90s do — including all of the 60' excess height boxcars.

[Sharky_McSharknose]

Thanks for the info, Bryan.