Your Santa Wishlist to Manufacturers for 2020

[dougnelson]

Ooh! I just realized... I really want a PC and Conrail X67 auto parts boxcar.

Ed - can't you put your auto parts in a Pullman solarium car?

[Tom L]

Well, since this thread keeps going, how about this in a couple of numbers from Micro Trains?

It’s been a while since I’ve had to buy any MT freight cars. The MT drop bottom gondolas (and the three dome tank car) are some of MTs finest freight cars, IMHO.

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Tom L
Wellington CO

[johnb]

It's early but do you want to collaborate on something like this?  I will  want to do a couple of trolleys beyond the PCC.  If interested send a PM and we can start kicking around what you'd like and the research to get it off the ground.   Photos are always good.

the issue is that almost each city/interurban company had their own signature cars. A Pacific Electric Hollywood Car looks like nothing else...there is a very small N Scale traction group in groups.io (24 members) and a few more N Scalers in the Facebook Traction modeler group.

Volkmar in France is the defacto N Scale traction supplier
http://interurban.blogspot.com/

[Cajonpassfan]

@#$%^& shipsure...just don't call me late for desert.  I have this on my list.  not sure what we will do next.  Combine has been requested as are an assortment of dorm baggage, baggage dorms, dorms, baggages and flat cars.     

Joe

Joe @Shipsure rather than the more obscure, limited use cars, may I ask first about/for another common standard plan Pullman to supplement the two you have? They roamed all over the country and can be used in multiples (think sales😁)
Just a thought...
Otto

[thomasjmdavis]

@#$%^& shipsure...just don't call me late for desert.  I have this on my list.  not sure what we will do next.  Combine has been requested as are an assortment of dorm baggage, baggage dorms, dorms, baggages and flat cars.     

Joe

If you are planning more baggage car styles, I need to find a part time job.
You could save yourself some effort and do the L&N combines, several of which they made into dorms by removing the seats and installing bunks, with little or no change to the exterior.  You might also want to check on how many roads went the C&EI route, and bought a 12-1 Pullman for the task (Pullman "Superior" became C&EI dorm 308).  This, of course, should not prevent you from doing all the ATSF baggage-coach, baggage dorms, baggage lounges, baggage club lounges, baggage barbershop buffet lounge dorms, etc., on my list....   If you choose the right ATSF prototype, and produce some clip on pieces to blank the windows, you could get all of those from one car body, plus pull off the roof, ends, and sides, and have the mail container flats they were rebuilt into in the 1960s.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Ed - can't you put your parts in a Pullman solarium car?

Nah, my parts won't fit.

[ChristianJDavis1]

Nah, my parts won't fit.

Maybe when they make a Z scale one?

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Maybe when they make a Z scale one?

Yo mamma.

[PRSL66]

C424/425's and 430(RDG). would be nice!

[Dave V]

I have a host of wishlist items in HOn3, but for N scale:

More early (pre-1920) options for locomotives, rolling stock, figures, and vehicles (such as they were back then).

I know I'm a tiny minority doing 1905-ish in N scale but if I could have any wish...that'd be it.

[thomasjmdavis]

I'd still love to see some 1920s-30s (after USRA, prior to "war emergency") single sheathed boxcars.  "ARA", Fowler, Mather, ATSF Bx-11, 12, 13.  These were mass produced (some with 1960 era roofs or ends) in the early days of N scale, but did not make the transition to higher end models for some reason.  So we have multiple variations on USRA, but nothing from the 20 years after. 

And I never met a baggage car I didn't like.

A note on Christmas for 2021 or 2022.  To MTL and IM.... Just a reminder that 2022 will be the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Electo-Motive Engineering Company, later known as EMC, and then EMD.  And while not their first locomotive, it will also be the 80th anniversary of the EMD FT (the tooling already exists), and the very first one of those delivered (I think)was ATSF 100, which was an A unit with a bunch of B units attached.  And this seems like the perfect opportunity to make a prototype locomotive with the number 100 for EMD's 100th birthday.

[Philip H]

I just want a U-36 B that runs well and has scale handrails.

[Rossford Yard]

C424/425's and 430(RDG). would be nice!

I would change my road name to Belt Railway of Chicago in a heartbeat.

Back to a more practice request, wasn't Atlas going to come out with a Code 65 Tru Track extension piece?  Would be the perfect way for me to make my lift out bridge a bit more reliable.

[btrain]

Virginia battle ship gons, the kind that rode on buckeye trucks. Also a rerelease of the Walthers (Atlas) 0-8-0, would check all the boxes for me. Well that and a NKP hudson.

[GhengisKong]

Still campaigning for 1910s to1930s tank cars that have yet to be produced.