Weathered CP Rail MOW gondolas with tie loader ***N scale***

[sd40dash2]

Interesting release announced by Micro Trains ***N scale*** in the form of a 3-pack of CP Rail MOW gondolas with tie loader. What makes this cool is the weathering depicted on the drawing. How can they make this both scalable and profitable? Is the weathering handmade or is that some kind of a full-body print?

www.micro-trains.com/index.php?_route_=cp-rail-weathered-tie-loader-3-pack-coming-7-20-99302090

It looks like Micro Trains released this type of thing before -- the weathered gons look really good!

www.micro-trains.com/index.php?_route_=conrail-tie-loader-3-pack-coming-10-19-99301880

[jonklein611]

Micro Trains does a batch of weathered cars every month as well as a batch of graffiti cars. I'm not sure what process they use.

www.micro-trains.com/publicfiles/monthly/MN2003.pdf

[riogrande]

I have been buying some N scale equipment in the past year, partly for a coffee table layout and partly for the eventual need to downsize. I've seen a lot of MT weathered freight cars but frankly many of them are super extreme weathered. They've done the orange Rio Grande Airslides and they look awful - but that's me. I prefer lightly to moderately weathered, not ancient 40 year old weathering.

The above look a little better than some I've seen.

[Deleted]

I agree, MT tends to go overboard with their weathering. I believe it's a print process, much like an inkjet printer, since all of the pieces in a run are identical.

[riogrande]

All I know is there is a boat load of overly weathered D&RGW 2 bay Airslides and it's hard to find a as delived version. MT's are much better looking than the other brand of airslide (Bluford?)

[jonklein611]

Mar 3, 2020 12:23:43 GMT -8 riogrande said:

All I know is there is a boat load of overly weathered D&RGW 2 bay Airslides and it's hard to find a as delived version. MT's are much better looking than the other brand of airslide (Bluford?)

MT tends to throw in a freebie car with some orders.  Maybe the Airslides were one of the freebies.

[riogrande]

I haven't ordered any MT cars direct. I have a few purchased off of fleebay but mostly I've been getting Trainworx which is a "relatively" new company - been around about 20 years - and make nice N scale models. A guy on another forum sold me 35 trainworx kits but they need couplers and wheels, which I've been buying direct from Trainworx - they are body mount with Fox Valley wheels and MT couplers. Train

[ChessieFan1978]

Wish we could get a "Lucky Loader" in HO Scale