Request for Joe at MT

[mu26aeh]

My request is that you stop releasing items that take away from my IM SD40-2 budget 

[basementcalling]

I want my weathered cars as singles. Multiples each month are fine, but I don't want to buy a Pan Am car to get an Ichabod hopper I want.

[johnb]

I just want a Yosemite Valley boxcar

[peteski]

What about molding the ladders in the same material as the foot stirrups?  The foot stirrups appear to be very fine and are molded in color.

IIRC, they already mold them out of Delrin, and they still look clunky.

[mu26aeh]

I want my weathered cars as singles. Multiples each month are fine, but I don't want to buy a Pan Am car to get an Ichabod hopper I want.

I'm sure you can spin them off here or on the bay.

[Missaberoad]

IIRC, they already mold them out of Delrin, and they still look clunky.

But separately applied parts need not be clunky, look at the offerings from Atlas (ps1 and older acf pd boxcar) or Trainworx. Im all for finer tooling but they can be separately applied and fine in n scale.

[basementcalling]

I'm sure you can spin them off here or on the bay.

MY take is that just about everyone will be trying that.

[cjm413]

MY take is that just about everyone will be trying that.

Buying a 3 pack to get one car is bad enough.   The fact that that the demand for the covered hopper will probably exceed the combined demand for the two other cars in the set only adds insult to injury.

[Catt]

Those "grabbags" would have made more sense if they had kept the cars in their correct era.The bags in my opinion were just a way to get rid of some excess stock.

Sometimes I get the feeling that MTL thinks their customer base is just plain stupid.

[wcfn100]

Some people don't seem to understand exactly what a grab bag is.

Jason

[coosvalley]

A cash grab?????

[cjm413]

Those "grabbags" would have made more sense if they had kept the cars in their correct era.The bags in my opinion were just a way to get rid of some excess stock.

Sometimes I get the feeling that MTL thinks their customer base is just plain stupid.

All of the weathered 3 packs come with the same cars:

https://www.micro-trains.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2353

[Mark5]

FWIW, and honestly I don't think the grab bags are marketed to modelers like me, but I gotta point out that the N&W twin hopper in the "Eastern Grab Bag" is lettered for and N&W HL class hopper - this class disappeared from the rails in the mid 1950s. Also listed as a possible part of this grab bag is a Norfolk Southern hopper circa late 1980s or up.

https://www.micro-trains.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2279

What was Tom asking about?

Mark

[Ed Kapuscinski]

OR they could just tool a correct body for a 50' boxcar

These graffiti boxcars and the shortline series boxes have great schemes, but it's still just lipstick on a pig to me..If that Berlin Mills scheme was on a scale, not compressed, model, I would have bought every one I could find...And I know the real proto for those cars has never and probably won't be made....But, due to the ugliness of that boxcar body, I bought NONE...

Imagine if Atlas never re-tooled the GP7s to correct them compared to the old Kato made versions...

It's ok to re-tool these, it really is...and long overdue, IMHO....Let 'em know Joe!

Yes, absolutely! It kills me, I'm loving lots of the schemes, and they're rendered beautifully, but I have banished those cars from my fleet because they just look so "wrong" compared to other cars.