Tis the season: top 5 rolling stock list(s)

[GaryHinshaw]

I haven't updated my top-5 freight car wish list in a long time and a lot of new models (and prototypes) have appeared in the interim.  With the holidays upon us,  Santa might be watching, so here you go Santa.*  My list is focussed on modern freight cars, in priority order.  Feel free to post your own list, but maybe restrict it to locos and rolling stock.  After all, we all wish for high quality, readily available turnouts, for example.   Links below are to HO versions of listed models, for reference.

1. Any 3-unit articulated 53' rib-sided well car set, e.g. NSC/Walthers, Thrall/Atlas, or Trinity.  (JTC is an obvious candidate for the NSC.)
2. Greenbrier 60' hi-cube boxcar, double plug door with horizontal ribs, e.g. Atlas. (MTL, Atlas, Scale Trains?)
3. Gunderson 60' hi-cube boxcar, single plug door without horizontal ribs, e.g. Atlas. (MTL, Atlas, Scale Trains?)
4. TTRX 57' 3-unit spine set, e.g. Athearn.  (I'm not holding my breath for any company to take this up in N.)
5. Trinity 6351 4-bay hopper, e.g. Walthers. (IM, Scale Trains?)

* I am assuming that the IM 3281 2-bay hopper and the Athearn acid tank car are in the queue, so they're not listed here.  Also not listed is any other modern tank car since the choices are so broad

[ednadolski]

BNSF 82' Reefers

[Mike C]

  Blackstone K-28 .   

[Chris333]

Whatever the last 5 things I printed were.

[pjm20]

-NYC 30'6" Offset Hoppers
-NYC "USRA" 70T Triple Hoppers
-PRR H39 Hoppers
-PRR H37 Hoppers

And last, but certainly not least:

[C855B]

Dear Santa,

I would dearly love to have a complete fleet of all seven UP mid-'60s double-diesels, all in N. They won't take up much room in your bag, and would all fit in a stocking:

• GE U50 and U50C. Athearn has the U50 in HO, and Con-Cor's N scale U50 is 1970's tooling. Nobody has done a U50C since the Alco Models brass version of 40 years ago.
• Alco Century 855 and 855B. Of course. Ditto for Alco Models brass.
• EMD DD35 and DDA35
• Also, UP CA-9 Caboose, RTR. Like Athearn's.
  

And Santa? Maybe, just maybe, if I'm a really good boy for the rest of the month, can I please have the six Atlas SD45s I ordered? And pretty please, if it's not too much trouble, can you have the elves paint the undecorated ones into 3600-series UP livery? Atlas seemed to have dropped the ball on those. I know you can do whole bunches better.

Thank you, Santa!

Sincerely,

Mikey

[thomasjmdavis]

I think this year, I am sending my list to Grumpy, the shop steward in the workshop.  Santa can't deliver it if nobody makes it.

My list includes-

   1. ATSF Ga-6 (rebuilt), Ga-8 (rebuilt), Ga-48, - 49, -53, correct length Ga-61, -68, -69, -80, -87, or especially, a Ga-91. Choose any one or more of those.
   2. A coach-baggage combine. I would settle for Atlas parts department to stock body shells of their 60' cars so I could make my own.
   3. The undec AAR/war emergency flatcars that IMRC promised for years but then cancelled.
   4. A Santa Fe steam locomotive in my lifetime. I'm over 70 and overweight. Your window of opportunity is closing rapidly.
   5. A 1925-30 ARA single sheathed boxcar. No, the USRA is not 'close enough' when you put the numbers for an ARA car on it.
   

[PiperguyUMD]

1. Western Maryland J-1 4-8-4. Maybe Santa could bring BLI the tooling to put a new shell on the Reading T-1
2. Bachmann NE Caboose in WM Fast Freight Herald - PLEASE!
3. Bachmann NE Caboose in Reading Steam era
4. WM H9 2-8-0. Considering the WM has used as many as 10 on a train, I’d be ecstatic with 3.
5. Atlas 55 ton fish belly hoppers in WM Fast Freight.
 

[mu26aeh]

I echo the OP in many of the car choices.  The only thing I'd add to the list is the Sodium Chlorate car that Rapido is doing in HO.  Any one doing a 80s/90s/early 2000s paper mill needs that car.  But since Rapido is basically giving up on us N scalers, someone else will probably have to step up to the plate and fill that out.

[jagged ben]

  Links below are to HO versions of listed
1. Any 3-unit articulated 53' rib-sided well car set, e.g. NSC/Walthers, Thrall/Atlas, or Trinity.  (JTC is an obvious candidate for the NSC.)

2nd

2. 80s exterior post containers.  40' and 45'  In APL, Maersk, and Sealand.  C'mon JTC.

3. 45' trailers in Tranfax, same patched for early Allied Shipping,  AXXA, Imex.  or decals for same where not available. MT, Atlas, or Athearn

4. Backpacker well car.  Scale Trains to port to N.

5.

BNSF 82' Reefers

2nd

[James Costello]

A quick list:

• TTAX 5x 48' spine car
• TTRX 3x 57' spine car
• Like GFH said, any 3x 53' articulated ribbed side well car
• BNSF 82' icicle reefer
• Trinity Backpacker - both 40' and 48' 5 unit articulated well car sets - ScaleTrains https://www.scaletrains.com/ho-scale/ho-scale-freight-cars/rivet-counter-ho-scale-ps-trinity-backpacker-well-car-set.html
• TTJX finger rack flat for rebar - ScaleTrains https://www.scaletrains.com/rivet-counter-ho-scale-bsc-f68bh-finger-rack-flat-ttx-1991-speed-logo-r1.html
• SSW / Golden West Service (VCY) B-100-48 door and a half PCF 60' boxcar http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/byclass/box/b100-48.htm
  https://www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=16468
• SP B-100-39 60' PCF Popsicle boxcars http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/byclass/box/b100-39.htm

And for loose ends:

• 53' Wabash National Plate Wall / Duraplate / Duraplate HD intermodal trailers
• 53' Wabash National Duraplate Container - JB Hunt
• 53' corrugation side Utility Reefer Trailer
• 53' Pines / Great Dane / Monon / Stoughton platewall JB Hunt containers
• 48' Martrac / UPS style reefer trailer
• 28' UPS "bulldog" pups with angled front corners
• 45' Martrac reefer trailers with side stiffener rail and underslung reefer unit
• 48' Great Dane JB Hunt container http://www.qstation.org/jbhunt/contain/700808.jpg
• 45' exterior post Fruehauf container - Maersk, Sealand, etc

[bnsfdash8]

My main list:

1. Thrall NS "Protector" or CR "Coil Shield" coil cars. (Scale Trains please shrink down the Exact Rails models)
2. NS "High Top" coke hoppers http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1233204
3. Trinity 6351's
4. NSC 89' flat cars http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4767410
5. Salt hoppers http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3351030

[jagged ben]

Everything James Costello said.

[BCR 570]

I have a need for and would like to see the following:
1.  Procor 3300 cu ft pressure flow hoppers (BCOL, CN, Halliburton, Mountain Minerals (CP), later Alaska, etc.)
2.  NSC 40 ft. steel refrigerator cars (CN/PGE and CP/PGE series)
3.  NSC woodchip cars (PGE/BCR, CN)
4.  1960s/1970s era dual compartment tank cars (CGTX, UTLX Procor)

None are likely so my wallet is safe.

Tim

[bbussey]

Not much for me I believe. These N scale items would be nice:

• MTL Greenville 60’ double-door boxcar in modernized variation with no roofwalk, half-height ladders, and low-mounted brakewheel
• ATL Canadian slab-side covered hopper
• 8000-gallon acid tankcar
• UTLX 6500-gallon Class X-3 tankcar
• ATL Fruit Growers Express 40’ insulated plug-door boxcar
• ACF 40’ sliding-door boxcar
• Magor 40’ sliding-door boxcar