Annual MTL Body Style Hunt.

[asarge]

My request would be for the Carbon Cars or a new tank car. But my biggest wish is that you could release more of the Evans 4780 car with some of the elevator schemes AND the Erie Western scheme.

[JMaurer1]

Most of the ground has already been covered but I want to +1 to either round roof and air conditioned heavyweight passenger cars and 36' stock and box cars. Older '50 era ballast cars (you really just need to change the underframe of your steel open hopper car):

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2916548

[u18b]

Hey Joe.

Many cars have been mentioned.

But round roof heavyweight passenger cars has been mentioned a few times!
 

[Bob Bufkin]

I'll throw in the request for round roof passenger cars.  Also a few railroad rebuilt heavyweighs in what they called Betterment cars.  PRR and B&O come to find. 

[Wardie]

How about an RPO like this one;

http://www.bethlehemcarworks.com/Products/Craftsman_Kit_Cars/images/Kit_241_Maine%20Central%20RPO-Baggage%20Car.jpg

or this one

http://www.bethlehemcarworks.com/Products/Craftsman_Kit_Cars/images/Kit_242_BM_RPO_Baggage.jpg

or a combination car like this one

http://www.bethlehemcarworks.com/Products/Craftsman_Kit_Cars/images/Kit%20247%20web.jpg

[Ed Kapuscinski]

The Thrommer.

[pjm20]

Hey Joe.

Many cars have been mentioned.

But round roof heavyweight passenger cars has been mentioned a few times!
 

Joe, they actually want pre ac roofs, so don't take them seriously. 

[Catt]

Joe, they actually want pre ac roofs, so don't take them seriously. 

He's hallucinating we want the round (arched) roof or the rounded Harriman style.Like the roof on that modernized observation /business car that MTL did for Lowell Smith.

[nickelplate759]

A UTLX tank car, 1945-ish.  10k or 8k gallons  (not the GATX one you already have).

[chessie system fan]

Here's an EASY one!  A Thrall 60' auto parts car.  It's basically a Greenville car with welding instead of riveting, a different sill, and a single door (There were some double plugs too--even easier!).  You could probably use part of the Greenville tooling too.  Plus there's lots of colorful roadnames.  And (ahem...) Chessie owned a lot of them.  There's Mainline Modeler plans too.

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/co/co491604jpa.jpg 

Youngstown doors were common too.  http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo491169jpa.jpg

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/co/co490095jpa.jpg  Plug door.

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo490008ssa.jpg  Here's the easiest of all!  All you need is new sides on the greenville tooling and you're done.



I also know of a grounded one a few hrs away I bet I could take measurements from.

[RockGp40]

But my biggest wish is that you could release more of the Evans 4780 car with some of the elevator schemes AND the Erie Western scheme.

+1. I have pleaded with Exactrail to do these in N scale and offer the same schemes.

+1 for the BRIX Incobrasa cars too.

[brill27mcb]

Has anyone ever made a true USRA 2-bay hopper? They've sold well in other scales, like O, where Intermountain and Atlas have made endless paint schemes with them.

Rich K.

[haasmarc]

Joe,

How about a 1015 coupler box with a Z scale coupler in it for converting locos etc. 

Also, cabeese usually need offset couplers, how about an offset body mount Z scale coupler.

The above are for installation on N scale equipment...

[VonRyan]

DODX 6 axle flat cars....

+1


-Cody F.

[OldEastRR]

Rebuilt passenger heavyweights ..... cars that have never been done on a mass run in N, while there were huge numbers of them used by almost every passenger railroad.