Annual MTL Body Style Hunt.

[jmlaboda - RIP]

"We've already done the design work for the single window coach...it's going to happen...as will a HW Baggage car."

Woohoo!!!  I hope it is the type with the space between the bathroom windows and the coach section, which was the more common design... I can make an 18 or 20 windowed coach (not counting the bathroom windows) work.

[MRLX1020]

A runner pack's worth of these would be a start on the trough hatch ACF 3 bay cars - without conspicuity stripes, please:
http://www.krunk.org/~joeshaw/pics/pvt-cvd-hop/brix/brix97173-1-medium.jpg

Seen all over the midwest, on CN/IC, NS, TP&W and others.

Also, maybe a new tooled Greenville 6 bay woodchip hopper......

[ljudice]

+1 on the round roof passenger cars....


Re: Jordan Spreader - Wheels of Time should do it, given their excellent job on the similarly complex Piggyback handler....

[ljudice]

DODX 6 axle flat cars....

[Ike the BN Freak]

+1 for the Delaware Valley Airslides.
+1 for Lou's DODX flats, with correct 3 axle rollerbearing trucks

As for my $.02, I'd say a Gunderson 7466 Wood Chip Gondola, like ExactRail makes in HO, but won't do in N for whatever reason.  Or a Gunderson 6048, as that is what BN had.

Or a Bethlehem coal hopper, like this one,
http://www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=61455

[JoeD]

next week...overloaded this week and want to focus on one scale at a time.

Hey Joe, where's the thread for Z scale suggestions? Or don't we count with MTL anymore?

As for N scale how about some Harriman cars or atleast a arched roof matched window or single window coach.

[jpf94]

DODX 6 axle flat cars....

+1

[jpf94]

Modern F89HC TTX flatcars in both deck versions.  thus leading to the PTTX and LTTX versions as well.   In 3 numbers at least.

This would be the generic flatcar for machinery and a variety of other loadings.

Joe

[James Costello]

Repeating earlier requests for a channel sided 89' flat car that utlises your exisiting underframe (with new hitches) such as a TTX class F89F.

Otherwise, I'd simply like to see the 45' trailers painted in schemes you still haven't done that are suitable (Espee Golden Pig, Preferred Pool, Transamerica, XTRA) and Schneider National on the 48'er.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Actually I like the Jordan Spreader idea.

Horizon/Comet II coach and cab cars. Lots of roads and no one has dome them.

PD 5100 series hoppers. These have been around for decades, are still produced and came in lots of billboard schemes.

19K gallon corn syrup tanks. Lots of schemes with logos. I would LOVE a Staley version.

53' sheet-post trailer. No one is doing them and they are probably the single most popular trailer on TOFC service for the last decade.

Trinity 2 and 4 bay Centerflow style covered hoppers.

[bbussey]

non air conditioned roof and under frame parts to back date existing HW cars.

Also the ice-cooled underframe for all of the heavyweights, given that the majority of the cars were ice-cooled and not mechanically-cooled.  And roller-bearing trucks.  That minor tooling exponentially expands the number of prototypical schemes on all of the heavyweight models.

[bbussey]

Joe,
... How about a 36' box, stock car, or more recent meat reefers?

Regarding the reefer — they already have the 58500-series model.  All they have to do is start issuing some 1940s/1950s schemes on it.

[gbcaboose]

Large capacity WAFFLE side Woodchip hoppers.  Walthers made them in HO, but nothing even close has been made in N.

Mike

[Skeebo]

How about the kind of tank cars the Tank Train used to run. I'd buy 100. So yes, runner packs.

Add me to the list for DDX flat cars also.

Jim

[RAILCAT]

How about an unpowered calf to go with the SW1500