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Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« on: February 18, 2011, 02:55:34 PM »
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It's official:

http://www.micro-trains.com/cs-ObservationCar.php

Pullman Plan 3959.

Ice or mechanical A/C?  Ice would be nice.
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Re: Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2011, 03:00:48 PM »
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So no coaches yet is what you are saying.
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Re: Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2011, 03:36:42 PM »
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Yeah, that was in the new N scale Railroading I looked thru last night. They will work there way "down" to coaches fairly soon I suppose.
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Re: Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2011, 03:49:43 PM »
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Great... The tooling looks pretty good on all of these, but they're pretty much the same cars that Lima and Rivarossi has done for 40 years (the RPO notwithstanding).

What about 77' single window coaches?  There's a pile of folks standing on the platform at Hillen waiting to go to Pen Mar Park!

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Re: Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2011, 03:59:11 PM »
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Most trains wouldn't even have an observation car, just the fancy stuff, right?

I think Erie only had 3 of them total.
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Re: Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2011, 04:23:14 PM »
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Mostly a first-class car with bedrooms and lounges.  Definitely wouldn't be on an all-coach train.

I will need a few though - two for New Haven and a bunch to convert into Conrail OCS cars.
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Re: Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2011, 04:29:15 PM »
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Quote from: wm3798 on February 18, 2011, 03:49:43 PM
Great... The tooling looks pretty good on all of these, but they're pretty much the same cars that Lima and Rivarossi has done for 40 years (the RPO notwithstanding).


The only car in the Rivarossi and Lima models that remotely resembles any of the MTL releases is the Rivarossi 12-1, which is based on plan 2410 IIRC (MTL is plan 3410 IIRC). The Lima coach and baggage/mail car are PRR designs, and the observation is a fantasy based on the P70 coach.

Most of these cars are of little interest to me (so far I've sprung for the MTL 12-1) and the observation might be useful for kitbashing a business car (I already have such a project based on the RR observation) - but I'd say for a bunch of people the MTL cars are a hit!

That said one would think some sort of coach would be on the short list. It appears that MTL is concentrating on Pullman designs in the short term, so I'm guessing any coach will be a Pullman design.



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Re: Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2011, 04:41:48 PM »
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Re: Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2011, 04:54:35 PM »
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I guess it's my bias against passenger cars... "They all look alike to me"... 8)
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Re: Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2011, 04:57:29 PM »
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The single window coaches will be the bomb for me; the observation 3-2 will be useful for a very limited number of my lines but may be good bashing fodder for a few business cars.... keep em coming MTL !
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Re: Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2011, 04:58:10 PM »
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Quote from: wm3798 on February 18, 2011, 04:54:35 PM
I guess it's my bias against passenger cars... "They all look alike to me"... 8)

as opposed to say, open coal hoppers....right ? ;D
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Re: Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2011, 05:21:03 PM »
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Quote from: NandW on February 18, 2011, 04:41:48 PM
Apparently the same design Walthers did in HO:

http://www.walthers.com/exec/search?manu=932&keywords=3-2

If they copied the Walthers car (here's hoping), then that means ice-cooled A/C and easier kitbashing projects in converting the other three bodystyles.
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Re: Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2011, 05:22:33 PM »
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I know CP didnt run this particular car, but it will look fine in Tuscan and Dulux Gold......

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Re: Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2011, 05:24:01 PM »
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Could make a fun freelance conversion to a private owned car , or a supervisor track inspection car for a freelance railroad .
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Re: Next MTL heavyweight bodystyle announced
« Reply #14 on: February 18, 2011, 05:40:29 PM »
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Quote from: Chris333 on February 18, 2011, 03:00:48 PM
So no coaches yet is what you are saying.

Ditto
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