2017 NSE Convention

[ai5629]

Atlas Ford F 100 trucks.  These are very well done.

[ai5629]

Micro Trains 50' PS boxcars.  These are really nicely done.  According to MTL, they are using existing 50' underframe, but will get correct ride height by adjusting how the shell sits on the underframe.  I lobbied for Conrail and Reading BR50L's.  They added them to their list.

[ai5629]

Athearn auto racks and SD70.

[ai5629]

Scale Trains carbon black cars.  These are really well done.  They said the preorders have been abysmal.  They are going to lose their shirt on this car.  Preorders are about 1/10 of what had hoped.  Based on what I saw, I will be preordering a few.

[unittrain]

Those autoracks are awesome, same with the TankTrain Lots of good stuff.

[wcfn100]

NE5 caboose

Awesome.  Thanks.

Jason

[ai5629]

Scale Trains Gevo.  Stunning.

[ai5629]

New building in the works from Lunde.

[ai5629]

Kato OH

[ai5629]

I talked to Intermountain regarding the Flex Coil trucks for Conrail, NS and CSX SD40-2's, and was told most likely they will be done.  They will be done later and offered as a swap out.  Fingers crossed.  Maybe I will get the four Conrail units.  I lobbied Scale Trains for an SD40-2, and they said it has not been ruled out.  On a side note, IM said the sales of the 53'6" flatcars have been disappointing both in N and HO.  That is why the second run was cancelled.

[ljudice]

I wonder if N Carbon Black cars are doing worse than HO???

Why?????

[C855B]

I wonder if N Carbon Black cars are doing worse than HO???

Why?????

They are doing worse, significantly worse. As to why... discussed here in the GEVO thread.

[ai5629]

Walthers had a beverage distribution warehouse.  My cell phone photo of it stunk though.  Modern era structure.

[coosvalley]

Micro Trains 50' PS boxcars.  These are really nicely done.  According to MTL, they are using existing 50' underframe, but will get correct ride height by adjusting how the shell sits on the underframe.

Is this the same, "squished" shell or have it's dimentions been fixed?

[Curtis Kyger]

I'd like someone to do a replacement roof for the new 4740's that would have the 30" round hatches that existed on a few of the prototype delivered cars.