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Post by lvrr325 on Aug 4, 2024 21:45:15 GMT -8
Got an email today, Bowser has a new run of these Ballast hoppers, converted 2-bay covered hoppers with side chutes. Most of these are a second run of previously offered roadnames.
$29.95 with three numbers each in:
Albany & Eastern (2 numbers only),
Santa Fe (Quality logo),
Burlington Northern brown,
CNW grey,
CNW yellow,
Conrail yellow,
CSX orange,
GTW,
KCS,
Milwaukee Road,
Morrisen-Knudsen,
Penn Central yellow,
Reading & Northern,
data only closed side orange,
data only open side grey.
Preorders due 9/6 with expected delivery summer 2025. Typically what happens is they show up in batches and not all the roadnames at once, so the Conrail ones will probably come a month or two before the Penn Central for instance.
bowser-trains.com/new/Ballast.html
Based on past experience I will pre-order the Conrail, PC, CSX cars, they sold easily on prior runs.
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Post by bncascadegreen on Aug 4, 2024 23:56:21 GMT -8
I hope maybe they’d realize there are more BN colors that could’ve been done. Not many were like the ones they’re doing again, patched. Frustrated tysryiu can send a company photos and they miss the mark a lot.
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Post by lvrr325 on Aug 5, 2024 0:00:58 GMT -8
The BN cars are plain brown cars with reporting marks only.
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Post by wagnersteve on Aug 5, 2024 3:12:57 GMT -8
August 5, about 7 a.m., EDT
The outlet hoppers on Bowser's models of these do not open and some details are part of the body casting, but I have one blue Delaware & Hudson car with yellow graphics from an earlier run and may buy another with a car number that matches the one on the only a full-sized car of which I've found a photo so far.
Several paint schemes in the newly announced run may be either dark brown or dark red; I find it hard to distinguish between those colors in the renderings.
Note that the Albany & Eastern is a switching line in Oregon, not New York and that the outlet doors on the models do not move.
The Milwaukee Road cars have two heralds per side, quite unusual on M of W cars.
I think the Morrison-Knudsen paint scheme is quite handsome. The Wikipedia article on the company gives its complicated history. It has a color photo of a similar car but with black CIC (for the Cedar Rapids & Iowa City, the former "Crandic" interurban), perhaps in the 1980s. M-K It was headquartered in Boise, Idaho but was active in many engineering and consruction projects in several states and overseas. I know the firm rebuilt some D&H locos in Idaho and also for some time in Pennsylvania. The firm and/or at least one of its succesors built some freight cars and quite a few rapid transit and/or commuter rail vehicles. It became a subsidiary of Wabtec and is now not active in Boise.
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Post by middledivision on Aug 5, 2024 7:29:29 GMT -8
No Conrail gray is a head-scratcher.
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Post by ambluco on Aug 5, 2024 7:44:54 GMT -8
CR gray has been run.
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Post by lvrr325 on Aug 5, 2024 20:02:00 GMT -8
August 5, about 7 a.m., EDT The outlet hoppers on Bowser's models of these do not open and some details are part of the body casting, but I have one blue Delaware & Hudson car with yellow graphics from an earlier run and may buy another with a car number that matches the one on the only a full-sized car of which I've found a photo so far. The D&H cars are conversions of 55-ton 2-bay open hoppers. I believe I found photos of all four road numbers offered. I currently have two of each in stock; they sell better at shows than online. These cars are all from 2-bay covered hoppers, both closed side and open side between the bays. I agree it's odd they haven't re-run Conrail grey but are re-running Conrail yellow. Probably 90% of them got painted grey before they left the roster. Susquehanna had a batch of them they never even patched the lettering on. Most of these schemes are second runs. |
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Post by middledivision on Aug 6, 2024 9:02:17 GMT -8
So has CR yellow but they're doing more. Ditto for PC and R&N. Is there a law against running a paint scheme more than one time? |
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Post by ambluco on Aug 6, 2024 9:51:07 GMT -8
There is a law actually. It's part of the same group of laws that governs, for example, when you finally custom paint a model you've always wanted, and a manufacturer releases the same scheme two weeks later. So has CR yellow but they're doing more. Ditto for PC and R&N. Is there a law against running a paint scheme more than one time? |
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Post by ChessieFan1978 on Aug 6, 2024 16:58:32 GMT -8
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