New MTL

[up1950s]

https://micro-trains.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=7

Also 98302256 a 2 flat with a Japan WW2 mini sub .  I want that . Why ? I have no idea .

[chessie system fan]

I can't find any evidence that the mini sub flat car set exists (maybe it wat taken down on the website?), but it's a plausible set because the real mini sub currently at the National Museum of the Pacific War was paraded around the country during the war to raise war bonds.  I'm sure there are photos out there of it on a flat car because it's too big and heavy to fit on a truck.

[learmoia]

As of 7/30/24 0737 Central.. They only updated the advanced orders, but not the single car releases for August?

[samusi01]

This inspired me to see if there are photos taken of the mini sub captured at Pearl Harbor during its war bond tour and there are… all of which feature the sub on a truck. Interestingly, the truck operator, Bigge Drayage of Oakland, CA, still exists but as a crane company.

Aside from a number of images from the tour (tours?) all across the country, all seemingly on the same truck, there is a single image at Flickr of it on about a 40’ USN flat. Considerable overhang involved, but no idlers are in the image.

[dcr1793]

The snail mail copy of the August Micro-News arrived last night.

New August Releases
134 00 011/012 - TTX 60' Flatcar (OTTX)
094 00 870 - KCS/Golden West ACF Hopper
106 00 270 - Conrail (GE52E) Covered Gondola
025 44 931 - EEC/ex Berlin Mills (ex Per Diem Series)
045 00 331 - SSW Flatcar w/ Boat Load
033 00 610/611 - Union Pacific 50' Boxcars (Plug & Sliding Door, Cushion Underframe)
059 00 521/522 - PFE 40' R-40-10 Reefers (Reprint)

Collin

[JoeD]

I can't find any evidence that the mini sub flat car set exists (maybe it wat taken down on the website?), but it's a plausible set because the real mini sub currently at the National Museum of the Pacific War was paraded around the country during the war to raise war bonds.  I'm sure there are photos out there of it on a flat car because it's too big and heavy to fit on a truck.

[Philip H]

@Gozer the Gozerian - Will that small tug boat be sold separately?

[JoeD]

I can't find any evidence that the mini sub flat car set exists (maybe it wat taken down on the website?), but it's a plausible set because the real mini sub currently at the National Museum of the Pacific War was paraded around the country during the war to raise war bonds.  I'm sure there are photos out there of it on a flat car because it's too big and heavy to fit on a truck.

[JoeD]

Here's a couple more.

Gozer

[JoeD]

@Gozer the Gozerian - Will that small tug boat be sold separately?

I'll ask...

Joe

[learmoia]

Seeing a photo of the Conrail gon on Hog-Trains, I'm bummed that MT used the old cover vs the new one on the Southern Gon..


Cus... ya know..


but.. I'll get one anyway.

Edit...
I'll shut up now.. 

[James Costello]

I'll ask...

Joe

@Gozer the Gozerian Joe, any chance you can spill the beans on whether we can expect some farm and construction equipment from MTL similar to the military range (ala M1 Abrams and Humvee injection molded vehicles) as loads for this great new range of flat cars? Thanks

[up1950s]

I can't find any evidence that the mini sub flat car set exists (maybe it wat taken down on the website?), but it's a plausible set because the real mini sub currently at the National Museum of the Pacific War was paraded around the country during the war to raise war bonds.  I'm sure there are photos out there of it on a flat car because it's too big and heavy to fit on a truck.

Thar she blows , https://hogtrainz.com/shop/product-category/micro-trains-august-2024/

[Englewood]

I wonder if that "Save the Monarch Butterfly " boxcar is prototypical? It's very nice looking.

[Missaberoad]

Looks like a couple PFE reefers for me this month, nice to see a rerun of the 1950s scheme not done since the first release!

@Gozer the Gozerian Joe those flats look amazing! Better then the Intermountain 60 footers and rivals some HO offerings. I can't wait for some 1970s appropriate releases to get my dirty hands on some.