TheRailwire
General Discussion => N and Z Scales => Topic started by: InterMountain on December 13, 2010, 10:56:02 AM
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Hello All!
New N scale items available for reservation from your dealer!
Santa Fe Refrigerator Cars
http://www.ircmodelersclub.com/images/flyer365.htm
Bathtub Coal Gondolas
http://www.ircmodelersclub.com/images/flyer366.htm
50' AAR Single Door Boxcars
http://www.ircmodelersclub.com/images/flyer368.htm
4740 Cu. Ft. Covered Hoppers (Red Caboose)
http://www.ircmodelersclub.com/images/flyer369.htm
RoadRailer Trailers (Deluxe Innovations)
http://www.ircmodelersclub.com/images/flyer370.htm
Corrugated Containers (Deluxe Innovations)
http://www.ircmodelersclub.com/images/flyer371.htm
The following items will start being delivered to dealers this month!
http://www.intermountain-railway.com/newn.html
InterMountain Items:
FT Locomotives (Santa Fe-Cat Whiskers / MILW)
F7A & F7B (ATSF-Yellow Bonnet / Alaska)
Red Caboose Items:
42' Flat Car (UP / ATSF)
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Really like those 50' boxcars... Especially the NYC and PRR.
Probably will pick up some of those EL covered hoppers too.
What an amazing variety of equipment being offered in N-scale today.
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The RC 4740s and the single door 50-footers are most welcome news. I wonder if they have undecs of the latter though?
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Other than the OOCL containers, nothing for me this month (rare). Thats ok, money needed to pay for the SD40-2W.
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Anyone know the original build dates for the bathtub gons ?
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Tim to make a call and pre-order all 6 of the Sullivan scrap cars!
Brian
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Anyone know the original build dates for the bathtub gons ?
Pud, all over the place! The link below should be of assistance, seems the earliest cars were 1969-70.
http://www.nakina.net/cp/cp3.html (http://www.nakina.net/cp/cp3.html)
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Still waiting for some of the November items to arrive, let alone the December ones.
http://www.intermountain-railway.com/n/html/66808.htm
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22.95 for the old Red Caboose/Precision Masters 4740s and there's no lettering at all on the bays.
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Like it or not, prices are going up on everything. I fish for older stuff on eBay.
Frank
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22.95 for the old Red Caboose/Precision Masters 4740s and there's no lettering at all on the bays.
I was thinbking that too and some of the same old retread road names. You would think that Red Caboose would at least come up with more schemes considering there are ton of paint schemes yewt to be done. Not very coducive too strong sales and then we'll hear something like, "they didn;t sell well, so we won't bedoing the 4740 again"
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I'll get some of the GN and Burlington 4740s... when Kleins marks 'em down to a reasonable price. Maybe even one to strip and paint NP green.
But you're right, they could have been more generous with paint schemes. While I like the grey GN over the sky blue they did last time, I'd love to see an orange IC car and some more private labels, like FGDA.
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Yeah, like Accord Grain, Rogers Grain, Aurora grain, ETC. Would Love C&O and ICG for road names.
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I would love to see more N&W 4740s. After years of hunting I still don't have all six numbers of the original release (no end reporting marks woohoo!).
I guess they didn't sell well .... (that's what they tell me)
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I guess they didn't sell well .... (that's what they tell me)
I'm starting to think "they didn't sell well" is just the standard answer mfg reps give, regardless. It's especially funny when they tell you that and you've been looking for that model for years. If something truly didn't sell well, they'd be in clearance sales, bargain bins, and found everywhere.
I'm guessing "they didn't sell well" really translates to "they didn't sell out on the first order cycle, it took two."
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So CP Rail bought their first bathtub gons in 69 and by May of 1970 were running 88 car unit trains from the coal regions of the British Columbia interior to the newly built Robert Bank Super Port for Trans Pacific shipments of coking coal to Japan.....
How does one use these cars on a medium sized layout...? I can't run an 88 car consist; I can't afford an 88 car consist......I'd have to have them staged; blow through as they'd be a scheduled mainline run, not a manifest or local....How many would "look prototypical..." 15...20...30...?
Hmmmmmmmmm.........
(one fun thing would be that they'd almost certainly have been the red cars which turned black in a matter of months due to coal dust so weathering would be a blast........)
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The best bet is a cripple being returned to a shop or post shop, back to the mine or port. They are used for scrap tie loading nowadays, but in 1973, they'd have been way too new. Then there is the mis-routed car, though kinda hard to do on a unit train, but humans will be humans...
Unit train size depends on the size of your layout. Given your plan, 20 cars should suffice.