Micro Trains March 2025 releases

[basementcalling]

Meh. YMMV. Wallet safety is important too, I guess.

https://www.micro-trains.com/publicfiles/monthly/MN2503.pdf

[ednadolski]

Those MRL hoppers look impressive.

Ed

[Dave V]

Nothing for me either. No transition era stuff.

[basementcalling]

Those MRL hoppers look impressive.

Ed

They are the weathered HO Accurail offerings, not N scale.

[490Steam]

They are out of my time frame but I am pre-ordering the Kahn's 4 pa ck of reefers. I worked there back in the late 70's and early 80's.

[ednadolski]

They are the weathered HO Accurail offerings, not N scale.

Yes, I know.  I am trying to imagine them sitting on top of some Proto:87 wheels. 

The weak point is the chunky Accurail details, esp the end cages and coupler boxes.  (Too bad MT didn't do this with some Athearn Genesis or Tangent models.)   It may be worthwhile to try replacing those with some better parts (and maybe the roofwalks).  I don't think it would be too hard to blend w/the factory weathering -- it would take a lot of work to hand-weather a car to look like that.

Ed

[learmoia]

Quiet month for me too..

[mu26aeh]

DME soybean hopper for me.  See them on occasion at AgCom on the Hanover Sub

[robertjohndavis]

Any anthracite road boxcar w/o a roofwalk is good for me. Ordered the RDG. And also the MILW boxcar because it just looks cool. - Rob

[Ed Kapuscinski]

That Reading car is pretty. But I really like that MILW car too.

[Cory Rothlisberger]

That Reading car is pretty. But I really like that MILW car too.

I'm on Ed's team with the MILW car. I feel like I've seen plenty of early Conrail pics with MILW boxcars floating around...

[Sokramiketes]

I'm on Ed's team with the MILW car. I feel like I've seen plenty of early Conrail pics with MILW boxcars floating around...

If I remember right it's pretty close to the prototype.  I remember adding two more door bars on each side, to a model in a prior release. 

[wcfn100]

If I remember right it's pretty close to the prototype.

You may be remembering a different car.

Jason

[Cory Rothlisberger]

Meh, not the right car. Will probably still pick it up though...

[Englewood]

The SP TOFC cars are way out of my era, buy I lay awake in bed at night thinking about them...