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Post by James Ashley on Mar 4, 2024 9:37:40 GMT -8
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Post by packer on Mar 4, 2024 10:30:34 GMT -8
I'm curious about the ACF car. I'll have to look into it some more
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Post by cemr5396 on Mar 4, 2024 11:51:37 GMT -8
The ACF boxcar seems to be a copy of the "Precision Design" car that Atlas makes. Not sure why that car needed to be copied, but whatever. Walthers gonna Walther.
It is nice to see another run of the Trinity 4750s, especially the GACX potash cars. Unless or until Tangent makes these, this model is what we've got, and that's not to say there is anything wrong with it. It's a nice model, fits in perfectly with Accurail 4750s in a train.
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Post by cpr4200 on Mar 4, 2024 13:08:01 GMT -8
The hopper looks good. Pretty fine grabs for being molded on. Are there any other items in this month's announcement?
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Post by cemr5396 on Mar 4, 2024 14:04:23 GMT -8
The hopper looks good. Pretty fine grabs for being molded on. Are there any other items in this month's announcement? the announcement isn't out yet, OP just noticed the new cars on the website already. Full announcement should be tomorrow, Walthers usually does it first Tuesday of the month. |
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Post by hudsonyard on Mar 4, 2024 16:00:41 GMT -8
How many points on the foobie scale for the ACF cars? Couple schemes there I might be interested in.
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Post by lars on Mar 4, 2024 16:40:52 GMT -8
The ACF boxcar seems to be a copy of the "Precision Design" car that Atlas makes. Not sure why that car needed to be copied, but whatever. Walthers gonna Walther. I believe this is also represented by the Accurail 5600 series exterior post boxcar. Now the Walthers will likely have better paint, metal wheels and the underbody is pretty decent. They will likely go for less money when on clearance, too. |
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Post by grabirons on Mar 4, 2024 19:11:24 GMT -8
*spoiler* Looks like there's some mainline 8-40Bw, 8-32bwh, 8-40B ( are these technically all the same shell?) on the way, NSC 3- unit well cars, more of the other ACF boxcars, five unit rebuilt thrall wells, thrall rebuilt 40 foot well cars, www.walthers.com/search/?q=WalthersMainline&productListFilters=in_stock_status%3ANWalthersProto SD9's, gp35's low and high short hood gp35's I think this is a first in HO plastic. Neat. |
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Post by cpr4200 on Mar 4, 2024 19:43:04 GMT -8
How many points on the foobie scale for the ACF cars? Couple schemes there I might be interested in. I think the BAR is a 10 on the foob scale; IIRC that number series were Berwicks. Nice paint and lettering, though.
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Post by cera2254 on Mar 5, 2024 3:30:40 GMT -8
Is there a page with Walthers new announcements by month?
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Post by grabirons on Mar 5, 2024 4:25:12 GMT -8
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Post by packer on Mar 5, 2024 7:12:43 GMT -8
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Post by 12bridge on Mar 5, 2024 7:15:20 GMT -8
It would take an entire new drive line design in order to do the single tanks. I am trying to decide how to proceed with my SD7R due to this. |
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Post by lvrr325 on Mar 5, 2024 8:01:37 GMT -8
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Post by chitownjeff on Mar 5, 2024 9:22:41 GMT -8
Of the next batch of Trinity 4750's covered hoppers which ones are the foobies?
Thanks
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Post by cemr5396 on Mar 5, 2024 10:33:39 GMT -8
Of the next batch of Trinity 4750's covered hoppers which ones are the foobies? Thanks depends what your definition of "foobie" is. Some of these are closer to the real thing than others. for starters, three of the road names are pretty much accurate: GACX, UP, and BNSF, although I noticed the lettering on the BNSF cars is not correct, at least based on the photos I found of numbers that Walthers did. next up you have the ones that are close but not quite: NS and SOUTHERN. The real cars are late model PS4750s, remove the bolster extension and the running board end supports from the model, and it's pretty much correct. Not sure how I feel about how the logo looks on the NS cars, however. the outright foobie: ICG. I'm not sure about the SLSF cars, if the real ones were late model PS4750s they would fall into the camp with the NS and SOU, if they are not they fall into the outright foobie category. |
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Post by cemr5396 on Mar 5, 2024 10:34:38 GMT -8
*spoiler* Looks like there's some mainline 8-40Bw, 8-32bwh, 8-40B ( are these technically all the same shell?) on the way, NSC 3- unit well cars, more of the other ACF boxcars, five unit rebuilt thrall wells, thrall rebuilt 40 foot well cars, www.walthers.com/search/?q=WalthersMainline&productListFilters=in_stock_status%3ANWalthersProto SD9's, gp35's low and high short hood gp35's I think this is a first in HO plastic. Neat. the only new items this month are the two freight cars and an accesory for their layout control system. All that other stuff was previously announced. |
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Post by cnwfan on Mar 5, 2024 13:53:05 GMT -8
The ACF boxcar seems to be a copy of the "Precision Design" car that Atlas makes. Not sure why that car needed to be copied, but whatever. Walthers gonna Walther. It is nice to see another run of the Trinity 4750s, especially the GACX potash cars. Unless or until Tangent makes these, this model is what we've got, and that's not to say there is anything wrong with it. It's a nice model, fits in perfectly with Accurail 4750s in a train. However, as with any Walthers run for every win there is an equally dumb decision. Those CNW cars..... Look, I know that they don't have the proper model to do a PS 4750 so they need to foob it up to do some of these other paint schemes. But when the CNW had cars that are really similar to the model Walthers actually has, why they didn't choose numbers from that series instead of the ones they did boggles the mind. Just look at the SOUTHERN/NS cars they did, or the CSX cars from the last run. The only thing wrong with them prototypically is the extension on the bottom of the bolster, which is a seperate piece that can be modified and/or removed, and the end walkway supports, which can likewise easily be removed - and presto, you have a basically correct late model PS4750. The CNW cars could have been the same way with better road number selection, and I would have bought several to patch out for lease service. The CNW cars that Walthers is doing are similar to the prototype. The CNW 178xxx series 4750's are 1980 built cars, and have the same spotting features as the slightly later built 181xxx's with the multi-color herald. The prototypes do have 20" wide round end ACF style hatches. They're a very reasonable stand in for a late CNW 4750. I found 3 of the 4 numbers on RR Picture archives in Zito. www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3993725www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1048236www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5471621 |
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Post by locochris on Mar 5, 2024 13:59:39 GMT -8
Wow, only 2 cars announced and no locomotives, even after skipping February.
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Post by wagnersteve on Mar 5, 2024 14:33:58 GMT -8
3/5/2024, starting 4:30 p.m., EST, with interruptions.
An email from Walthers with the March announcements reached my email five minutes ago. Thanks for the earlier posts on this thread.
I'm most interested in the 50' ACF Plate B boxcars, since I have very few models of cars introduced in 1990, as Walthers says the 57' Trinity 4750 covered hoppers were. So far I've looked for photos only on George Elwood's great website, rr-fallenflags.org, which does have phtos that are good matches for three cars shown in the Walthers renderings: CNW 155204 and 155499 and PCA 16607. One of ITC 7321 is in the same number series as the Walthers rendering of one of the Illinois Terminal cars it's doing in a great and very colorful livery; other photos on that website show one BN, one Southern and three Frisco cars of the same type, livery and apparent number series as ones shown in the Walthers renderings. The website has no photos of RI cars with numbers close to those of the models it's making, and its photos of the CN cars with the closest numbers to those Walthers is doing are Plate C cars, at least one of which has a flat roof.
It's now 5:30; there have been more interruptions for family tasks.
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Post by cemr5396 on Mar 5, 2024 15:10:55 GMT -8
du'oh........ not sure how, but I must have gotten mixed up between car groups. For some reason I was thinking those cars were more like the earlier PSs with the small jacking pad Still disappointed they aren't 181s though, purely for personal reasons. |
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Post by hovehicle on Mar 5, 2024 19:19:45 GMT -8
The last 2 new product announcements have been duds. Mainline freight cars are only good if there are see-thru walkways. Why on the cylindrical hopper and no other hoppers? I'm always looking for new Cornerstone kits like a Cracker Barrel for example. That would be cool! How about some new figures in ho? People walking with their phones, people sitting with their phones, people standing in line with their phones, etc.
Vito L.
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Post by edwardsutorik on Mar 5, 2024 19:44:24 GMT -8
People walking with their phones... Yeah. I'd have to get some to position crossing the street. Ed |
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Post by cnwfan on Mar 5, 2024 20:38:51 GMT -8
du'oh........ not sure how, but I must have gotten mixed up between car groups. For some reason I was thinking those cars were more like the earlier PSs with the small jacking pad Still disappointed they aren't 181s though, purely for personal reasons. 600 cars in series 178000-178599 Feb/March 1980 with the yellow/black Employee Owned herald like the earlier cars. This series is kinda overlooked, but 600 cars is a pretty sizeable order. 1,700 cars in the 181000-182699 series March-June 1981, red/black/white herald. |
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Post by cemr5396 on Mar 5, 2024 20:41:33 GMT -8
du'oh........ not sure how, but I must have gotten mixed up between car groups. For some reason I was thinking those cars were more like the earlier PSs with the small jacking pad Still disappointed they aren't 181s though, purely for personal reasons. 600 cars in series 178000-178599 Feb/March 1980 with the yellow/black Employee Owned herald like the earlier cars. This series is kinda overlooked, but 600 cars is a pretty sizeable order. 1,700 cars in the 181000-182699 series March-June 1981, red/black/white herald. Some of the 181s were yellow too, I'm assuming they were repaints. |
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Post by cemr5396 on Mar 6, 2024 9:40:59 GMT -8
I was looking up photos earlier, turns out two of the GACX hopper numbers are incorrect. 729 and 779 were not repainted out of BNSF brown. The other two numbers are correct. Once again, a screw up that a simple photo search could have prevented.
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Post by jonklein611 on Mar 6, 2024 9:49:39 GMT -8
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