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Post by Christian on Oct 27, 2021 6:06:13 GMT -8
That will finally silence the armchair experts and naysayers here who keep telling us ONE 35 year old musty brass van or plastic foobie is all anyone who models CP will buy for their layout. Hey - It worked for the Alton and Southern guys!  |
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Post by cemr5396 on Oct 27, 2021 13:25:33 GMT -8
The clock is ticking.... The "Two Years of the Caboose" will be over in a couple months. 2022 is "The Year of the Carbon Black Hopper". I’m patiently waiting on “the year of numerous accurate mill gons” or “the year of multitudes of accurate post 1965 bulkhead flats” Nah, 'Year of 110 ton grain hoppers' is where it's at. I need a bunch of high quality NSC 286K hoppers. I could use a couple Thrall 5150s too  |
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Post by lyonwonder on Oct 27, 2021 14:53:15 GMT -8
I'm hoping Tangent or Athearn (since they already have the similar ICC wide vision caboose) will release a prototypical model of the late 1970s-early 1980s PC&F wide vision cabooses for Burlington Northern.
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Post by packer on Oct 28, 2021 8:51:47 GMT -8
I'm hoping Tangent or Athearn (since they already have the similar ICC wide vision caboose) will release a prototypical model of the late 1970s-early 1980s PC&F wide vision cabooses for Burlington Northern. Athearn had announced some ex-Q ones. Wondering when those will show up (and who’s buy my pile of atlas ones when done) |
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Post by champagnetrail on Oct 28, 2021 18:49:47 GMT -8
Shall we play the prediction game again? What caboose will Tangent produce next? I'd be surprised if it's not a Southern bay window since lots of people are asking for those.
A true prototypical Southern Caboose.....? Count me in!
Gino
Well, if David wants to do a Southern caboose, you know he won't have to go very far to find one to measure. Isn't there one at the depot in Hendersonville NC?
By the way, I was secretly hoping that 2022 would be the year of the lo-deck tri-level autorack. Maybe someone will get around to that in the 2040s before I die.
-pat
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Post by lvrr325 on Oct 29, 2021 0:09:55 GMT -8
A lot of Southern cars stuffed and mounted down there, I even ran across one that with a couple of boxcars was an ice-cream stand.
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Post by lyonwonder on Oct 29, 2021 15:55:44 GMT -8
A true prototypical Southern Caboose.....? Count me in!
Gino
Well, if David wants to do a Southern caboose, you know he won't have to go very far to find one to measure. Isn't there one at the depot in Hendersonville NC? By the way, I was secretly hoping that 2022 would be the year of the lo-deck tri-level autorack. Maybe someone will get around to that in the 2040s before I die. -pat
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Post by edwardsutorik on Oct 29, 2021 16:37:06 GMT -8
I used to walk and chew gum when I was a kid. At the same time.
But I stopped chewing gum decades ago. I wonder if I can still do it.
Walk and chew gum, that is.
I expect JUST chewing gum shouldn't be that difficult.
But I could be wrong.
Ed
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Post by chessie77 on Oct 29, 2021 19:26:06 GMT -8
I keep hoping that Atlas will offer their C&O trainman C15 caboose in the modernized C15C version or that someone will offer 3D printed parts to convert one.
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