ScaleTrains.com First Two N Scale Freight Car Announcements

[ednadolski]

Great to see these nicely-done models, but they don't fit my proto either.   I'm still hoping for T4s and a 53' well car...

Ed

[Scottl]

What he said 

[mu26aeh]

Nothing here for me either.  Would probably only see 1 on some reroute path due to some repair or something.  Since my LHS doesn't carry the line, I doubt I will have many releases from ST. 

[bbussey]

I don't know if I can say for sure that I've ever seen either one of those two car types in my life.

I regularly used to see the 1970s and 1980s cars dozens at a time parked on sidings off the ex-Erie freight line in Rutherford NJ when I worked in the area in the 1980s. Plenty of Cities Service but many of the other roads as well.

[jagged ben]

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I also recall the Cities Service cars, as they had a plant just south of Mojave. Both GLC and Cities Service closed their plants (in the '80s?) because their process equipment required venting by-products to atmosphere. It was H₂S [corrected] and other ugly stuff, so when air pollution rules actually started to mean something I think they built compliant plants closer to the customers rather than use the desert winds as a huge wastebasket.
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Gary, no promises, but I am going to try to get a rough date on when the Cities Service plant closed. I suspect it may have shuttered too many years before your modeling period, because they would have definitely been seen in Mojave.

Damnit Mike, I wasn't going to buy these.   

[Philip H]

I will be:

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[Cajonpassfan]

Happy for you guys, an interesting prototype and a very nicely done model. Way too new for me though, so I'll sit patiently and wait for some 36' Mather cars to come out. Could be a long wait
Otto K.

[unittrain]

These are really nice models!! I'll have to get a few 1970s era ones.

[Smike]

Great to see these nicely-done models, but they don't fit my proto either.   I'm still hoping for T4s and a 53' well car...

Ed

+1 . Great looking model! Hopefully a 53' NSC well car is #2. (So desperately needed staple in N Scale.)

[bnsfdash8]

These are fairly common around here so I'm glad to see them make it to N. I'll be in for a couple SRCX ones.

[Mark5]

Looks like 1977+ for the 5750, so I dodged this one by two years.

The other is 1990s+ I guess.

Models look good!

Of particular interest to me is this: Plastic semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers

Mark

[wcfn100]

Of particular interest to me is this: Plastic semi-scale Type E knuckle couplers

What in particular makes that interesting?

Jason

[Mark5]

What in particular makes that interesting?

Jason

Ok, let me re-phrase this ...

I want to see these couplers, how they look and how they operate. The context is evaluating them for possible applications in the event that ST decides to offer them separately.

Can't really see them in the pix too well, but they look largish so I don't know, hence I want to see them.

Mark

[asarge]

Excellent Shane and the gang. One car very much needed in N scale. Can almost always see a few on 153/154 and 172/173 on the Piedmont Division.

[wcfn100]

Ok, let me re-phrase this ...

I want to see these couplers, how they look and how they operate. The context is evaluating them for possible applications in the event that ST decides to offer them separately.

Roger that.

Jason