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Post by gprose on Jul 5, 2012 19:19:55 GMT -5
I would like to see the stainless steel passenger cars as well.
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Post by Rob Albritton on Jul 5, 2012 21:40:56 GMT -5
Budd, ACF or Pullman Standard?
Any particular railroads? Paint?
Smooth side? Fluted?
(Sorry, I know thats a lot of questions!)
best, -Rob
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Post by Joes on Jul 6, 2012 10:09:38 GMT -5
So many different routes to go on this one. I am no expert persay, but I think Kato in N scale pretty much has the passenger car marketing down to a science.
They tend to release and match a loco to specific type of passenger car. Remember the amtrack p42 with Superliners? The super cheif, California Zephyer (sp?), Broadway limited with GG1 etc etc.
I guess the thing is most everyone has a place for amtrack, then most everybody can be classified as east or west coast modelers. I don't know if with the size of Z at this point it is possible, but they do keep people interested in passenger cars. Even I got the Superliners and Daylights just because I like them and still keep some N scale going.
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Post by Rob Albritton on Jul 6, 2012 10:45:19 GMT -5
I really admire Kato and the products they make, but is it just me, or do they seem to have a bit of a "cult" following (sort of like Apple and the Mac) I also think you are dead on - do the whole train with locomotives a la Kato. Now that's not to say we can afford to do it. One thing Kato is very good at is making everything very prototypical (and they run darn well too) but they have some VERY expensive tooling. I looked at using their coupler design as a starting point for our own a few years back, but because of the intricate shapes, the tooling would have been a small fortune (think over $100,000 just for a coupler) But their passenger trains use separate tooling for just about every single car. Yikes!
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Post by Ztrains on Jul 6, 2012 12:35:37 GMT -5
I really admire Kato and the products they make, but is it just me, or do they seem to have a bit of a "cult" following (sort of like Apple and the Mac) I do think some of this exists with Kato and my guess is for 2 main items they've produced: Unitrack and their Mikado. The Mikado is often referred to as the best steam loco in N scale, and Unitrack is sometimes credited by N scale experts as having "saved" N scale. There is a Mac correlation in there... of course, I'm a Mac user too! Kind of interesting that in Z we now have Rokuhan track, which so far has seemed to be very reliable and Kato-like, and a new Mikado coming out soon. John Ztrains
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Post by Rob Albritton on Jul 6, 2012 13:46:03 GMT -5
...and a new Mikado coming out soon. Thanks. No pressure there. I'll sleep well tonight....
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Post by Ztrains on Jul 6, 2012 14:32:37 GMT -5
Just encouragement and optimism!
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Post by Joes on Jul 7, 2012 12:43:41 GMT -5
...and a new Mikado coming out soon. Thanks. No pressure there. I'll sleep well tonight.... ;D I think John is dead on about that mikado. But you all know my feelings 100 times over about that.
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Post by klunk51 on Jul 13, 2012 9:38:13 GMT -5
Steel heavy weights would be my vote. Tim Treadway
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Post by Rob Albritton on Jul 13, 2012 23:23:32 GMT -5
Steel heavy weights would be my vote. Tim Treadway Done! They are in progress now.
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Post by eagsc7 on Sept 18, 2012 16:41:09 GMT -5
I remember pictures of Presidents making speaches from the back of Passenger trains. Here's a Picture of the most recent one Of course, I'd Personally prefer the UP version that is Here: The Last one I've actually seen is Really FLAT on the back. Just the last car is the one that hasn't been done yet.
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Post by henryjordan on Jun 19, 2013 6:55:59 GMT -5
Well it hardly any matters, soon these locos are going to be replaced by metros which will be covering almost all the cities of the globe. That too, cost efficiently and in less time.
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Post by markm on Jun 19, 2013 9:27:27 GMT -5
I'd really like to see cars for a complete train whether they be heavyweight, smooth or rib-sided. I thought it was a bit silly when MTL released long-distance cars without any sort of dining car. AZL has helped that with the heavyweight diners. But nearly all trains had some sort of dormatory car (dorm/baggage, dorm diner) and all the "classic" trains had some sort of end of train observation car. The later can be built from an existing car (like the railroads did) or a curved end car. It would be nice to electrify the end car, since they all had lighted drumheads.
mark
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Post by Hans Riddervold (AZL) on Jun 20, 2013 0:58:24 GMT -5
We are not quite done with developing our heavyweight passenger cars! Hans (AZL)
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Post by markm on Jun 20, 2013 18:54:14 GMT -5
Sounds like a Z scale C&FW Railroad is a possibility.
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