Model Railroading > What rolling stock would you like to see produced?

In the same vein as my previous thread, what rolling stock (freight cars, passenger cars, cabooses, MOW, etc) would you like to see produced? Be sure to state your scale.

My pick in HO scale:
A state of the art multi dome wine tank car. Circa 1930’s-1970.

Ryan Barber
Stockton, CA

HO Scale
"Prestige" Class Sleepers
"Power Cars"
"California / Surfliner Cars"
AutoTrain auto carriers...
AutoTrain Deluxe Sleepers
Creek Series Skytops...

> HO Scale
> "California / Surfliner Cars"

Definitely the California and Surfliner Cars - one would have thought this would have been produced in RTR form a decade ago or more by now, but nope.

Also as a long shot, add on the former NJT Comet single-level conversions now running on Amtrak California. Oh, and Amtrak Horizon equipment too.
and lest we forget..
- SP Budd Sunset Limited equipment (especially the food service cars).

Cheers,
Harry

+10 on the Cal/Surfliner cars. Agree with Harry, very suprised that these have not been done yet in RTR. 

An updated, available run of Amtrak Horizon and Amfleet cars would be nice. Not easy to find any readily available. 

Mike ONeill
Parker, CO

I would like to see an HO plastic International Extended Vision Caboose of modular design so it could correctly copy a variety of road names; my specific wish is for a class of 15 International EV Rio Grande cabooses in Grande gold/silver and also orange.

Cheers, Jim

HO
California Cars
N S C 53 Ft articulated well cars
SP 60Ft Flats/Bulkhead cars   ( We had then & hope they come back, Wheels of Time)

Tim
Hanesworth

ho business car plastic

sp8234 Wrote:
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> HO
> SP 60Ft Flats/Bulkhead cars   ( We had then &
> hope they come back, Wheels of Time)
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> Tim
> Hanesworth

Tim, the feedback I got from Wheels of Time one month ago is that they were still working out the factory arrangments but expected production in spring and shipment in summer of this year.

I too am looking forward to the 62' ACF straight taper  bulkhead flat cars and some of the plain flat cars.

Cheers, Jim

I've been waiting for more than 50 years for someone to produce the DL&W/EL Phoebe Snow in HO scale. No one has ever done a single example of the coaches, diner, or obs, though back in the 1960s, Rivarossi did have a correct, ACF-built 10/6 sleeper available. It was not, however, ever offered in DL&W or EL colors.

Art House

In HO, in no particular order:
..more "data only" freight cars, ie covered hoppers, open hoppers(100 T + coal cars) etc,  for those of us with "fictional short lines"..
..HEP power cars for passenger trains w/SOUND..

David Ketchum
Cheyenne WY

More cabooses.  Spring Mills Depot raised the bar with their I12.  Also need more 70's-80's tank cars and gondolas.  Tank car variants offered tend to be mostly too old or too new for me. Thrall/PS/Raceland gondolas needed en masse.

HO Scale
-N&W wood caboose 1940's-1950's era
-Nickel Plate wood caboose 1940's-1950's era
-TP&W steel caboose  1970-1980 era
 

1. The ACF 6151 waffle sided boxcar in BN, BNSF, Frisco, UP, MP, TOE and MRL among others. 

2.  Early Evans double plug door RBL. A huge amount of colorful schemes in the 60's and 70's, many many private owner cars as well as mainline railroads

3. Better quality  70's Thrall Bulkhead flatcar. 

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

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I would like to see more HOn3 stuff, especially the WP&Y diesels, and – finally –the D&RGW K-28, K-36 & K-37...

Along Ted's line of thinking - more modern Skeleton log cars, maybe RTR.

Rich

TS735 Wrote:
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> My pick in HO scale:
> A state of the art multi dome wine tank car.
> Circa 1930’s-1970.

I'll second that, if you are talking about those common three dome cars sporting one large and two small domes, or a four dome car decorated for Gibson Wines.

Otherwise, I'd like to see a Gilderfluke, but I guess that doesn't fall into the rolling stock category.

E. O. Gibson



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/03/19 10:30 by hogheaded.

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aehouse Wrote:
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> I've been waiting for more than 50 years for
> someone to produce the DL&W/EL Phoebe Snow in HO
> scale. No one has ever done a single example of
> the coaches, diner, or obs, though back in the
> 1960s, Rivarossi did have a correct, ACF-built
> 10/6 sleeper available. It was not, however, ever
> offered in DL&W or EL colors.
>
> Art House

Wasn't the Riverossi streamline coach a DL&W prototype? Also, there is a Walthers 10-6 that is very close the the DL&W ACF version, although it is a PS prototype.. 

 

The 1950 Pullman baggage dorm coaches used by the Rio Grande for the Prospector and the Rio Grande Zephyr.

A nice HO scale plastic model would be good. Cars have been produced in brass.

HO Scale in plastic:

Amtrak California equipment

Amtrak HEP era ex-ATSF Hi-Level equipment

Southern Pacific 3/4 Dome

Some of the Gibson Wine for me, too! wag216