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Post by markm on Jun 19, 2015 13:21:48 GMT -5
well, we've done freight and locos how about the passenger cars? Yeah we all want the lightweights: smooth-side and ribbed, as well as more heavyweights. But what are the specific interests? Here's mine:
Heavyweight
Pullman Tourist sleeper - 14 or 16 section. Were way too common in the last 30s and post-war to be ignored.
Passenger combine - common on short lines and secondary routes. Rob(A) SP ran a couple if these in Daylight!
Lightweight
Rather than specific cars, here I'm thinking trains. So I'm thinking typical Budd cars for the Zephyrs (Burlington, DRGW, WP, PRR).
For smooth-sided consider City trains (UP, SP, C&NW, PRR, Wabash). There were only 14 car styles used for these trains.
That's my 7 1/2 cents worth,
Mark
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2015 7:04:57 GMT -5
I'd like to see some n&w cars.
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Post by christoff on Jun 20, 2015 8:32:36 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind seeing some lightweights all I have for passenger is mtl UP cars and it was a fluke a got such a nice set other then that the other guys only release one every few years and it's to hard to collect them like that
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Post by markm on Jun 20, 2015 10:35:17 GMT -5
I'd like to see some n&w cars. Any specifics? Lightweight? Heavyweight? Any special paint scheme? I wouldn't mind seeing some lightweights all I have for passenger is mtl UP cars and it was a fluke a got such a nice set other then that the other guys only release one every few years and it's to hard to collect them like that Yes, the MTL UP cars went fast, even the additional runner sets they produced. What bothered me with the MTL release was that there were a dome car and a sleeper, implying a long distance train, but they never produced a diner...a lot of hungry passengers! Fortunately, AZL produced a heavyweight diner, which would occasionally run on the City trains at least as late as Christmas 1963. I have the "other guy's" SP and WP sets. Considering they were designed in an era when cellphones were the size of bricks, I think they are respectable. When MTL brought their car out a decade later, I expected them to be better and they were. And as AZL has demonstrated with the heavyweights, the newest designs are the best yet. Mark |
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Post by christoff on Jun 20, 2015 11:28:08 GMT -5
Mtl and the other guys do have very nice passenger cars as far as my level of detail is concerned but to collect them with only 1 style available each year in one road name normally baggage cars to boot how am I ever supposed to make a sweet passenger train and I have yet to get any heavyweights I only had one brand up till a week ago and sadly it wasn't AZL since I've discovered how amazing these products are, how they produce what we want not what we don't need , an how they have this whole one on one with everyone I've now spent $1500 on azl locos and intermodel freight ( just waiting for the azl vacation to end befor the rest get shipped ) and I can't wait to see some of these passenger cars and steam engines in person just gotta wait for the train fund to replenish a little first befor taking on the heavyweights when the time comes that the lightweights are available I'll be buying a few sets in whatever looks the best to me that much I can say for sure
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2015 12:09:31 GMT -5
Heavyweights and lightweights. I'd love a set of streamlined Powhatan Arrow cars. There are several different names that could be produced and moving to the later years two different colors when they chaned the passenger cars to blue from Tuscan.
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Post by markm on Jun 20, 2015 12:32:06 GMT -5
Yeah, sometimes it seems that AZL is the best kept secret in Z scale (if not model railroading), even though they have an item or two in the new products listing in MR every month and they have a half page ad in the July issue (pg 19).
If you want to see more Z scale in person, you should try to get to the National Train Show (NTS) that comes at the end of the NMRA convention. This year's is in Portland OR the end of August. I went to the one in Sacramento and the Z module people (BAZBoys, Zocal, and several others) put together a layout that took 45 minutes to completely navigate and it seemed that every piece of Z scale equipment ever built was there.
Mark
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Post by christoff on Jun 20, 2015 13:27:59 GMT -5
That's actually very disappointing becuase I'll be in the Portland area 2 weeks befor the show if I had known about It when I was booking vacation I would have taken the second half of august off and planned that into my loop
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