One Modern Freight Car That's Ignored...

[wcfn100]

Cool - where is this?

Baptist Rd road just north of Colorado Springs.  It's basically the next point north of Springs you can catch a northbound train if you miss it in town (unless you can get on the AF base).

https://goo.gl/maps/6fXF9xwZXon


Jason

[ljudice]

Thanks!

[daniel_leavitt2000]

I was hoping that IM had tooled up a two bay Trinity when they announced their 5161, but that never happened. I knew ER wasn't going to do one as their 5161 tooling was to be LBF before they went poof. LBF had stated they had no interest whatsoever in anything other than unit trains (then released gondolas right after).

The trinity two bay cars would fill a big hole for anyone modeling the early 90's or later.

Two other good candidates:

Chessie stub ACF hoppers
http://seaboardcoast.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/CSXT_227346_2-Bay_ACF_Centerflow.210191042_large.jpg

NACC/Trinity/Thrall PD5125
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lastarial/9311798101/

[cjm413]

Not a complaint here, just an observation...

(Snip)

...yes I know about various 60/70 era centerflows and the PM/RC car which I think is part foob.)

Lou,

The PM/RC model is based on Greenville's 3000 cuft cars, but the variances in production (including later cars built by Trinity after they acquired Greenville) do limit the number of fully accurate road names/paint schemes they could offer.

The Portec 2 bay car would also be an interesting model to have.

[ljudice]

Interesting - I need to do some research on those....

[cjm413]

Interesting - I need to do some research on those....

April '92 RMJ is a good starting point - the scanned pages have been taken down, but the text is still there:

 http://trainlife.com/magazines/pages/92/6602/april-1992-page-28