december MT releases

[sirenwerks]

Mid-70s siren... the scheme is

Drats, but that is an annoying green, which seems to fade to blue...

I'm kinda confused by the DTI car.  I see it has the longer wheelbase.

So it was not my eyes playing tricks on me?

[bbussey]

Longer wheelbase.  But the coupler mount appears to be the same.

[bbussey]

Looks like the door area can be made more accurate with some moderate work - filling in all the cavities around and between the doors, and thickening the door horizontal belt rails.

[Sokramiketes]

Looks like the door area can be made more accurate with some moderate work - filling in all the cavities around and between the doors, and thickening the door horizontal belt rails.

Jeez, it's more than the horizontal stiffeners that need work... what were they looking at when they tooled this monstrosity?

[Mark5]

Finally!!! A Southern 89' flat car. It'll go great with my Southern 40' Fruehauf trailers.


Hmm... I prefer movie
trailers...

Might be too "new' for ya.

[Mark5]

The DT&I car is supposedly shopped in 77. But they left the roofwalks on? 

[Kisatchie]

Finally!!! A Southern 89' flat car. It'll go great with my Southern 40' Fruehauf trailers.

Might be too "new' for ya.

I know I model 1971 and Southern got the cars in 1972, but I really wanted a Southern 89' flat. On my railroad, Southern ordered a couple of cars for testing in 1971.


Hmm... Kiz's brain could
use a little testing...

[lock4244]

The DT&I car is supposedly shopped in 77. But they left the roofwalks on? 

I saw a GTW 60' boxcar in the late 90's or early 00's with a roofwalk (still in brown paint, too). It can happen.

[bbussey]

Jeez, it's more than the horizontal stiffeners that need work... what were they looking at when they tooled this monstrosity?

Looks like the doors are too wide also, going by the juxtaposition of the doors to the roof ribs on both the prototype and the model.  I don't think it's just the perspective in the proto photo.

[eja]

Hmm... Kiz's brain could
use a little testing...

Be nice Dee ... nothing is "wrong" with Kiz's brain ... although it does gets a little confuse on occasion.

[Chris333]

Jeez, it's more than the horizontal stiffeners that need work... what were they looking at when they tooled this monstrosity?

Remember the department's name is called "creative".  They must also do the artwork for the die cutters.

[Robbman]

If only the makers of exceptional quality model railroad equipment actually did exceptional quality R&D (here's a hint MTL... riveted and welded cars weren't the same)...

So far the WAB and DTI cars are simple schemes... the one hit WAB car was $22.10, the three hit DTI car is $25.30 (yep, you're paying $3.20 more for a COTS)... wait until we get a complex scheme.

[LN2800]

I know I model 1971 and Southern got the cars in 1972, but I really wanted a Southern 89' flat. On my railroad, Southern ordered a couple of cars for testing in 1971.


Hmm... Kiz's brain could
use a little testing...

Is it too late to gently break it to ya that what we are looking at here is a 1984 repaint, likely done at Southern's Coster Shops?  Southern didn't go to the "SOU" abbreviation on rolling stock until 1982 (NS merger). This is what is often referred to as a "Claytor" repaint when seen on N&W cars.  The scheme you are looking for is the bold "SOUTHERN" spelled out with the filled-in "O"; that is the delivery scheme for these cars per page 82 in the Southern MSCG.

[Kisatchie]

Is it too late to gently break it to ya that what we are looking at here is a 1984 repaint, likely done at Southern's Coster Shops?...

Rats. I'll cope.


Hmm... cope? Kiz just
threw my TV set out of
my tree house...

[brokemoto]

I generally buy any thirty four foot refrigerator that MT offers for my nineteenth century pike.  Yes, I know, most of the paint schemes are from the 1920s and 1930s, but I go more for a suggestion of the nineteenth century than one hundred per cent prototype accuracy.  Smaller, wood cars and truss rods suggest the nineteenth century.

This time around, I went to order the meatpacker car and noticed that it was forty feet and not thirty four.  Does anyone know why MT switched gears?  Or care?