Athearn September - Nothing earth shattering

[CVSNE]

Now Erie Western may have been a 3rd Tier or maybe 29th Tier roadname, but Pennsy? ???

Old joke that goes back to the Atlas forum (I think) and my days at Intermountain.

Someone asked what the best-selling road names were and I answered, listing a bunch of roadnames in groups of 5 or 6 -- PRR ended up in the third of those groups -- more a reflection of IRC's product line and less on the popularity or validity of PRR as a prototype to model. Some PRR fans -- especially Jerry B -- perhaps feeling their judgement (or even manhood -- ??? ???) was in jeopardy took great exception to it.  I've been frequently misquoted (ed., PRR is a "third rank railroad") putting the PRR as a road name for IRC in the third group in a series. Last time I answered a business related question on Atlas.

Marty

[Mark5]

Has anybody asked why N&W hasn't been done. Although I'm in Central of Georgia territory and those fans are fanatical. I can;t see Cof G being more popular than N&W, nor C&EI.

They probably have a thick file on me.

I've been bugging them at least once a year since they took over MDC.

Mark

[wm3798]

The problem with the PRR car is the same issue with the old MDC WM version...  Wrong number of panels.  It's less obvious on the WM car, because the lettering works out.  The PRR car needs more panels, because they lettered it with one letter per panel... Hard to hide that one...
Lee