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Post by cthsery on Apr 2, 2024 6:13:22 GMT -5
An H-16-44 body on the R-S 3 frame would be neat. EVERYBODY had some!
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Post by oldgrog on Apr 2, 2024 6:19:38 GMT -5
OK, my personal inbox is flooded with; "please do the Sharknoses, please" So maybe I do not hate the Baldwins as much as I did Still hate (or perhaps better, an extreme unexplained dislike) Trainmasters! Your dislike of the Trainmaster comes as a surprise, as they were at their most succesful on the Southern Pacific in Bay area commuter service.
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Post by Scott on Apr 2, 2024 10:16:32 GMT -5
Glad to see (H-24-66) Train Master coming with the April Fools’ new locomotive announcement next year.
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Post by jadog66 on Apr 2, 2024 10:43:42 GMT -5
don't let it be an April's fools please. Attachments:
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Post by oldgrog on Apr 2, 2024 10:50:56 GMT -5
This wasn’t the only locomotive that was toured as a demonstrator set. We have SD70ACe and Gevo demonstrators coming soon. Hopefully others will be made, such as F7 ABA set #1950 on second run of those. The advantage to modellers is that we can host a demo loco on our layouts as a visitor, whether or not the road we model ended up purchasing any.
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Post by jadog66 on Apr 2, 2024 10:51:58 GMT -5
and if it is shame on you for getting ones hopes up you can always redeem yourself with this. Attachments:
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Post by jadog66 on Apr 2, 2024 10:59:39 GMT -5
and one more Attachments:
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Post by Commodore on Apr 2, 2024 12:17:03 GMT -5
OK, my personal inbox is flooded with; "please do the Sharknoses, please" So maybe I do not hate the Baldwins as much as I did Still hate (or perhaps better, an extreme unexplained dislike) Trainmasters! So was it a joke or not? Lots of us have been waiting for a shark nose for a very long time. The earlier AZL post seemed to imply you were releasing it later this year, and that it wasn’t a joke… you might have some upset customers. Nope: Sharknose are actually all sold out...
All they have left are the yellow ones with gray roofs...
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Post by sjl on Apr 2, 2024 12:33:31 GMT -5
Sure it is not the red ones with the black roof?
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Post by Rob Albritton on Apr 2, 2024 13:55:40 GMT -5
OK, my personal inbox is flooded Excellent! My work here is done.
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Post by Commodore on Apr 2, 2024 15:54:45 GMT -5
OK, my personal inbox is flooded Excellent! My work here is done. That's how you earned your cookie...
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Post by Scott on Apr 2, 2024 16:08:59 GMT -5
Hans got me thinking. As AZL expands in locomotive type, why not expand more in road names as well?
With the plethora (Or could I have used the word preponderance?) of west coast lines, the scale could be tipped (Pardon the pun.) in the other direction with embracing and modeling Central Railroad of New Jersey. (Some have said since AZL models Wabash, AZL could model Central Railroad of New Jersey. Who said that or if was said, I don’t know but it sounds good.)
further rationale for CNJ
• CNJ had RS-3s, GP7s, F7s, H-24-66s, F3s, RDC-1s, S-12s, and one U30B. (No known retooling or special tooling required—Just road names expansion.)
• CNJ had, as with other road names, three distinct paint schemes: Tangerine Dream, green and gold, and black and a yellow.
• CNJ RS-3s have a black body paint scheme as do RS-3s for Amtrak, Cotton Belt (SSW), Penn Central, Santa Fe (ATSF), Southern, Southern Pacific, and Western Maryland.
• CNJ RS-3s have muted yellow (Signal Yellow?) graphics as do RS-3s for Canadian National, Denver (D&RGW), Louisville & Nashville, Maine Central, Nickel Plate Road, Northern Pacific, and South Portland & Seattle (—Just minor color changes.)
• CNJ would look good on a Conrail layout as it completes the seven major railroads absorbed by Conrail (Penn Central, Erie Lackawanna, Lehigh Valley, and Reading are present in the AZL catalog while Lehigh and Hudson River and Ann Arbor Railroad may be future considerations for AZL.)
• CNJ was an integral part of the Alphabet Route, some of which AZL has represented already with Nickel Plate Road, Western Maryland, Reading, and New Haven.
• CNJ had one of five major railroad yards (the others being Lackawanna [DL&W], Erie, Pennsy, and Lehigh Valley) on the Hudson River Jersey City waterfront servicing metropolitan New York.
• CNJ shared tenancy with B&O and Reading and would look good on layouts with those road names.
• CNJ had its eastern major terminus where stood the prototype for the Archistories-Ztrack Center REA Transfer Warehouse kit.
• CNJ had its eastern major railroad yard where the famous “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli” scene from The Godfather was shot (Pardon the pun. Statue of Liberty may be seen in the distance above the flailing phragmites.)
• CNJ; The Blue Comet, servicing Atlantic City; and model railroading is featured in the penultimate episode of the The Sopranos.
• CNJ exists, presently in Z scale, as three CNJ offset-side twin hoppers, two in one set and one in another set; and as three CNJ “Blue Coal” offset-side twin hoppers, two in one set and one in another set. All six were made by Full Throttle.
Lastly,
• CNJ may be of interest as New Jersey has been known to have train shows.
Scott
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Post by cwrr on Apr 2, 2024 17:06:02 GMT -5
An H-16-44 body on the R-S 3 frame would be neat. EVERYBODY had some! I'll take mine in Milwaukee Road paint, please and thank you!
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Post by Scott on Apr 5, 2024 9:03:30 GMT -5
AutoCAD loves its contours. Attachments:
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Post by triplex on Apr 5, 2024 12:56:33 GMT -5
The mentions of "H16-44 on RS-3 frame" and of the H24-66 reminded me of something. Somehow I doubt the H24-66 is an early priority for anyone to release in Z, but anyway... To AZL, or more likely Atlas given what they make in larger scales, please think ahead. When you get around to the H24-66, *don't* stuff every cubic millimeter of its 7' wide hood and 7' high walkways with metal. Make the frame to fit a typical 6' hood width and 5'+ walkway height and design the inside of the H24-66 shell to fit around that, because then you can do a U25C on the same chassis.
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