Circus Circus

[Mark5]

I'm curious as to what six wheel truck they would put under the baggage. Currently MT only has much older (1910s-1920s) heavyweight style six wheel trucks.

If they use these on these cars this would be a major "faux pas" in my opinion.

Mark

[Sokramiketes]

I'm curious as to what six wheel truck they would put under the baggage. Currently MT only has much older (1910s-1920s) heavyweight style six wheel trucks.

If they use these on these cars this would be a major "faux pas" in my opinion.

Mark

THAT would be a major "faux pas"?  The whole train is laughable at this point after there were some early promises of a prototypical set... but I bet it's going to be the heavyweight style trucks... New tooling is unlikely if they're sticking with ancient CC tooling on the cars, and the only reasonable approximation for the roller bearing truck is the Bachmann full dome trucks or the Des Plaines Hobbies SP 6 wheel passenger truck, either of which is a likely candidate for MTL.   

[Sokramiketes]

Skibbe - that's what I said - the cars have skirts - except the baggage car - so yeah, I'd take the baggage car from ConCor - no problem. But not the others with skirts...

I'd even take them if they had jeans - but no skirts!

Gotcha.  At least the skirting on the coaches is only half there... CC never tooled in the end skirting so it wouldn't interfere with tight radius curves.  Clunky tooling and the deeply inset window glass is a lot harder for me to swallow than that portion of the skirting which is easy to cut off.  Not to mention the CC cars are TOO SHORT. 

[Mark5]

Sorry Skibbe, I'm only in this thread for entertainment purposes ...

I really don't care about Circus trains. Especially this one.

Mark

[ljudice]

Isn't the end skirting the part that is usually left ON these cars when they are de-skirted?

You're right, the set is a joke.

Actually this is something Kato should do - they have plenty of passenger cars they could throw together without causing too much of a stink, they could tool an 85' baggage car or really do an animal car - and then do the flatcars, which they could re-use for other purposes anyway.

BTW, the MTL ad shows one baggage car as a "generator car" with grilles in the side - is this to be modelled our just in our imagination?

[Sokramiketes]

Isn't the end skirting the part that is usually left ON these cars when they are de-skirted?

BTW, the MTL ad shows one baggage car as a "generator car" with grilles in the side - is this to be modelled our just in our imagination?

Yes, and pad printing I suppose on the "grills".