2016 Amherst Railroad Show Report

[bbussey]

Scale Trajns containers. And yes, these are considered to be the two vehicles on their N scale list.

[bbussey]

Athearn auto racks. Southern with anti-vandal panels coming in the second run.

[bman]

Too few orders to tool the right trucks? From a company with an unproven track record? Talk about a self fulfilling prophecy...

Well, my order probably just went down.

I had one of their SD45-2's in blue and had no complaints with it.  Someone made me an offer on it and we parted ways is the only reason I don't own it anymore. 

[sd45elect2000]

I enjoyed the little hidden treasures like:

AYA enterprises N scale structures. I built a few and they are very nice!

http://www.blastedmirror.com/buildings.html

Custom model railroads had a nice new building. I have a large group of their buildings and highly recommend them !

http://www.custommodelrailroads.com/

Creative laser designs has some very nice laser kits.

http://www.creativelaserdesign.com/

Randy

[bbussey]

Rapido HO 8600s.

[sundowner]

Oh and that's a confirmed NO on the flexcoil trucks. Too fee orders to justify the tooling of a single road specific detail. I know, I know...

 

So why pick the ex-Conrail numbers for the CSX and NS engines and yet put the wrong truck on them, its not like CSX or NS have other SD40-2 with HTC trucks. Glad I did not order any.

[unittrain]

Athearn auto racks. Southern with anti-vandal panels coming in the second run.

One of my favorite realeses of the year the autoracks open and partially enclosed buying one of each for sure.

[bbussey]

Is Bachmann there? I'd be interested to see their new fluted passenger cars if they have samples!

No N fluted cars. Only N items on display are previously-released items.

[mu26aeh]

Oh and that's a confirmed NO on the flexcoil trucks. Too fee orders to justify the tooling of a single road specific detail. I know, I know...

I can't imagine why no one wanted to pre-order from a company that can't deliver on time 

Have to also wonder how many orders were cancelled because people were tired of waiting.

As for the trucks, I'm not that concerned about it.  When trains are running around the layout, I'm not looking at the trucks.

[sirenwerks]

Fox Valley PS coal hopper.

I thought someone said earlier this was a 1960s car?  Since when does 1979 = 1960s?

[sirenwerks]

Rapido has pilot models on display of both the N scale FL9 and the N scale PBLW, along with the N scale NSC baggage.

Bryan B.


On the O-B coach, it looks like the window insert goes 'over' the window dividing post.  Is that the case?

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Sylvan adds a passenger car line...
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[seusscaboose]

Prairie Shadows, new N scale bulkhead flats. And yes, both the NSC 52'6" gons and the St Charles caboose remain available.

Those bulkheads flats are super heavy

Very nice for tracking
Held them in my hand on Saturday

[seusscaboose]

Scale Trajns containers. And yes, these are considered to be the two vehicles on their N scale list.

Scale trains said they had an aNnouncement coming in april

[bbussey]

On the O-B coach, it looks like the window insert goes 'over' the window dividing post.  Is that the case?

Window frame and center post are part of the glass and will be painted accordingly on the finished model.

This is a pilot model (pre-rivets) to show the window design.

Also, the model is now coming with the smoker hatch (removable).