What's Next Up for Freight Cars? (2020Q2 Edition)

So the silence got me thinking about the things I wanted, so I put together some suggestions. These are all things I would buy. In most cases, the entire typical AZL run. I'll start with new schemes I'd like to see on existing tooling, and then work into the new tooling stuff. So, first up is PS2-CD covered hoppers...

PS2-CD Covered Hoppers

GROUP 1 - BN/BNSF Schemes
-Mineral Red BNSF Swoosh logo (Rerun, maybe the smaller swoosh version for variety)
-Mineral Red BNSF Circle-Cross Logo
-BN Full Logo (Rerun)
-BN 3-Bar (Rerun)
-BN Spartan (Reporting Marks Only) www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2386172

GROUP 2 - Ubiquitous Iconic Schemes
-Rock Island "Rock" Bankruptcy Blue (stock or patched CNW et al) www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1383318 www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1247578
-Delaware & Hudson Red-Orange (stock or patched NRLX et al) www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=236407 intermountain-railway.com/n/html/65309.html

GROUP 3 - Possible New Co-Op Set
-ADM Blue/White intermountain-railway.com/n/html/65374.htm
-ConAgra Green/White intermountain-railway.com/n/html/65366.htm
-KYLE Gray www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3088323
-PTLX/Producer's Grain Amarillo Gray www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1694663 intermountain-railway.com/n/html/65294.htm

A few "Corn Syrup" schemes that could be possible...

Corn Syrup Cars
-Tate & Lyle
-T&L/Staley
-TILX Molten Sulfur (Black Cars, no yellow stripe like the other sulfur car AZL did)
-GATX Molten Sulfur (Black Cars, no yellow stripe like the other sulfur car AZL did)

A couple of misc comments...
1. There are some schemes that could work for the beer cars that haven't been done, if there are still cars available to decorate. (Various BN/ATSF/BNSF schemes, Manufacturer's Railway, and CryoTrans, and possibly others)
2. Please make some cases and packaging for single issues of the FCA Autoracks that you can send to dealers...it seems like there is still plenty of stock and some of us would buy one or two of the Canadian roads.)

And then locos...

ES44AC
-BNSF Heritage-II
-BNSF Swoosh
-UP "Early" with Red Sill

GP38-2
-EMD Lease
-CORP Red/Gray Scheme

SD45
-SP Speed Letter

And a caboose in NH version to fit the RS3 ...

About the only freight car I yearn for is the drop-bottom sugar beet cars: espee.railfan.net/sp_fcss-24.html
preferably capable of accepting the wooden extensions.

Back in the day when the U.S. actually produced it's own sugar, this time of year were the "Sugar Campaigns" with mile long trains of the cars running up and down California and east of the Rockies from Texas to Montana hauling beets to the refiners. After all, we have syrup tanks, and where does their contents come from?

I can't comment on the specific details of each road's needs, it is great to have not only the variety of rolling stock but the focus on each roads specific detail actually produced! Whether you run a unit train or mixed freight, it is great not only for us at home, but also what the public sees.

Keep it up !

Thinking about what both Jeff and Texrail have said, the scale could really use cars appropriate for unit trains common in the 1950s-60s. MTL has produced several of the car types needed, but rarely in the quantities needed to build a believable.

I've already spoke of the sugar beet cars, but they were just seasonal.

The open auto rack trains were big around the auto assembly plants. These cars can be produced with and without loads (cars and pickups) and the easy variant of adding the corrugated panels to the sides that started popping in the late 50s.

The piggyback trains were also very common, both single and double trailer flat car versions. SP had their "Golden Pig" service and I seem to recall ATSF was "papoose".

The only examples we have of these cars in Z are single loose approximations from Marklin.

I also support the tanks cars, particularly from companies as Standard Oil, Union Oil and Sinclair.

Finally the stock/dispatch cars. By DOT rules these were always unit trains. The most interesting ones were the bi-level cars for small livestock such as pigs. I seem to recall they had a unique dutch door arrangement/

Of course the big risk for all of these is a matter of interest. They seem to get no respect by modelers in any scale. I would be interested in 8 packs of the tank, piggyback and auto carriers, at least initially. Maybe of members could post their interests.

Mark