ScaleTrains Acquires ExactRail

[wcfn100]

I'd like to see whatever 60's freight car Exactrail said I'd be happy with when I talked to them 7 years ago. 


Jason

[EspeeGoldenState]

I was curious about this with the FVM acquisition, and now with the ExactRail for sure. Both companies came with MTL 1015s already on their rolling stock.

Hopefully nothing changes with that regard, but I have to assume the worse and expect those clunky couplers they are so adamant about on their rolling stock that create such a wide distance between cars and just look way oversized.

[bbussey]

Would love to see the HO Greenville 60' come to N scale (with correct scale dimensions for a change!):

The Micro-Trains 60' Greenville car has correct dimensions.  it just has yet to be released in the more common non-roofwalk/low-mounted-brakehwheel configuration.

[Mark5]

The Micro-Trains 60' Greenville car has correct dimensions.  it just has yet to be released in the more common non-roofwalk/low-mounted-brakehwheel configuration.

I guess I should have said Greenville 7100. https://exactrail.com/search?type=product&q=7100 The MTL 60' Greenville car appears to be a much different car.

"Introduced in 1972, the Greenville 60' Double Plug Door Box Car was built for auto parts service. Railroads contributed freight cars as a part of equipment pools, and these pools served the automobile manufacturing and supply facilities of automobile makers. The equipment pools were constituted in such a way that there wasn't correspondence between the paint schemes of railroad equipment and the home rails of the facilities which these cars served." -ExactRail writeup.

While we wait for that, then maybe they could bring us a 1:160 version of the ExactRail 7327 Berwick 60' car:

https://www.trains.com/mrr/news-reviews/reviews/staff-reviews/exactrail-ho-scale-berwick-7327-cubic-foot-boxcar/

I would also love to see the ExactRail PS 7315 60' "Waffle" come to N Scale: https://exactrail.com/products/x-p-s-7315-waffle-box-car-nw?_pos=5&_sid=0d09266c1&_ss=r

Mark

Thanks!

Mark

[peteski]

I was curious about this with the FVM acquisition, and now with the ExactRail for sure. Both companies came with MTL 1015s already on their rolling stock.

Hopefully nothing changes with that regard, but I have to assume the worse and expect those clunky couplers they are so adamant about on their rolling stock that create such a wide distance between cars and just look way oversized.

That's my hope too.  Ditch that silly Boxing Glove Jr. ^TM (BGJ) abomination, and just use MTL couplers. Sure, they don't look super-prototypical, but neither do the BGJ with their large size and silly externally visible knuckle spring.  Really!  At least MTLs work very reliably. Slinky? No problem!  Even with the negatives MTLs come out way ahead of BGJ!

[oakcreekco]

If MTL's aren't standard, I'll have ZERO interest in adding any units to my pike.

I've got enough projects still to do, and adding coupler conversions to new cars isn't one of them.

[pmpexpress]

Wonder if ScaleTrains will continue the production of the ExactRail N-Scale wheel-set bulk packs and whether or not the N-Scale ACF Vert-A-Pac cars will be run in the Missouri Pacific and Rock Island paint schemes that were never produced in either N or HO, and the Baltimore & Ohio, Frisco, Merchants Despatch (NYC/MDT), and Southern Pacific liveries which were only released in HO-Scale.

[signalmaintainer]

Please consider acquiring Intermountain next.

Amen, brother Hinshaw!

[Ngineer]

THIS should make the ExactRail models available to customers from abroad.

Since they changed their policy it was (nearly) impossible to order them if living outside of the US due the ridiculous freigt costs - and all the rest like customs and so on.

(The more we progress into the future, the more we do regress in terms of transportation costs, customs and bureaucracy.)

So I think this is good news. I do hope they expand their nice bridge models into N scale territory.

   Javier

[lock4244]

Great news Shane! They had a lot of good rolling stock, but never seemed to do much with it. I hope that ST can jump in and produce many more paint schemes. There is so many models that they only ran once. It was a real shame.

Agree, agree, agree.

Once of the earlier Exactrail N scale cars was a Hawker Siddeley 65' mill gondola. Would love to see these surface again as it was a pretty good effort imo, And being somewhat of a rare car, as far as I can tell only 115 of them on CP (377185-377299 BLT 1979), an odd but welcomed choice for a model. Hawker Siddeley built a similar gondola for CN (157000-157299 BLT 1972), though there are differences.
https://exactrail.com/products/x-n-cp-rail-65-gondola-cp
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http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=cp337235&o=cprail

The one failing of the model is the truck mounted couplers, which is not so much the truck mounted nature but the inadequate length of the particular part used. It seems like an afterthought to be honest... eventually I'll tackle body mounting these.
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[lock4244]

These were also pretty nice cars that disappeared.
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[lock4244]

And these...
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[Ted Thorson]

I'd love to see a new release of the 5200 Gunderson boxcar with body-mounted couplers.

[bigdawgks]

It seems like ExactRail never made any prototypes that were around before the 1960s? Guess this would make this news not very relevant to me. It doesn't seem ScaleTrains is interested in anything from that period either.

[robert3985]

It seems like ExactRail never made any prototypes that were around before the 1960s? Guess this would make this news not very relevant to me. It doesn't seem ScaleTrains is interested in anything from that period either.

ScaleTrains produces/produced both the UP GTEL Three Unit Superturbine which ran from 1958 to 1970, AND the UP Standard Turbine, with and without tender, which ran from 1952 to 1964.

So, all three models were a considerable investment for ScaleTrains, and they definitely ran before the 1960's...and they're all sold out.

I imagine that a UP Veranda Turbine is in the works, which ran from 1954 to 1964.

Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore