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Post by Scott on May 13, 2024 11:59:03 GMT -5
I luv Lackawanna train station in Hoboken. Hoboken is a great place for a getaway. Gazing into the step-down platform train shed one can feel the spirit of the trains from yesteryear. It can be Erie (Get it?).
AZL should tool a Phoebe Snow name train, the classic streamliner from Hoboken to Buffalo via Scranton and Binghamton. Along the way were interchanges with the Delaware and Hudson (Scranton), Lehigh Valley (Sayre), pre-merger Erie (Binghamton), and the New York Central (Buffalo).
(Delaware and Hudson interchanged with Lehigh Valley at Wilkes-Barre. Delaware and Hudson and the New York Central crossed paths at Albany. Erie’s Chicago Lake Cities rolled up alongside the Super Chief in Chicago. Erie’s Buffalo Lake Cites rolled up alongside the Phoebe Snow in Buffalo.)
AZL got Alcos for all the aforementioned.
(AZL Phoebe Snow would give meaning to Lackawanna modified AARs that bare the slogan “The Route of Phoebe Snow.” … Is AZL doing that road for the modified?)
Phoebe Snow—Thumbs up for an east coast name train.
I echo Mitch: I can still dream, can’t I?
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Post by Scott on May 13, 2024 7:00:37 GMT -5
Various articulated cars (Articulated kitchen-in-the-middle car is a favorite.), mid-car bar bar car, a rotating chair car, observation, coaches, and a combine, with a distinctive warm color paint scheme make for a design that is unique. (It’ll be lottsa fun to see AZL’s design choices for the Daylight. The cut [decisions] for both the COLA and Super Chief was nothing short of brilliant.) “Daylight has beautiful passenger cars.” On that I am in agreement with Tiest.
On the other hand, and not necessarily in brass, the scale needs to tip (double entendre) to Eastern roads. In this respect I am in agreement with Tjdreams. “B&O’s Royal Blue.” What an unbelievably good call! It’s plated steam locomotive design seems to complement what seems to be its west coast counterpart: The Daylight. Sure, both are a good candidate for brass (Rerun of a brass Daylight—Who knows?). Here, however, I am super-biased. I would gawk and gobble an AZL B&O Royal Blue.
Heavyweight baggage-dormitory-lounge head end cars of the B&O were visually appealing. On them was the grey window band which terminated with a rounded end. That was exciting for me ’cause it meant the rest of the train is coming. The Royal Blue, The National Limited, and The Columbian each had such a head end car with that round-ended window band. You sometimes see them in pictures of the tracks outside Grand Central Station in old Chicago.
“Short line” candidates is something, too, raised by Tjdreams. I am in favor of new special tooling for lesser known streamliners such as The Laurentian or The Crusader.
Speaking of special tooling, AZL could launch a new pool of lightweight passenger cars. Of particular interest is the Pullman-Standard 56-seat coach which was one used by many. More than one AZLer has mentioned the 56-seat model and other widely-used types, Pullman-Standard, or otherwise, elsewhere on the forum.
Forgive the digression, but I hope to see a permanent pool of AZL F7s with matching caboose. This is something brought to light with the discussion on the recent thread “Any Upcoming Alaska Railroad?” posted by Tmoneyduffak.
Not to loose sight of the argument presented by Tiest, I do not know how AZL assesses interest or demand. Also, in keeping with Tiest’s line of thought, some type of poll is in order. Moreover, I am for polls plural. An AZL customer base demographic poll was mentioned on the forum. To that we may wish to include, what would you like to see in brass?
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Post by Scott on May 10, 2024 19:20:50 GMT -5
Waqaa. Waqaa. Quyana tailuci.
Wish matching loco and caboose was made available to me when I stepped back into MRR. As Kez pointed out, wide vision good idea. Do get one or two to complement your F7s.
Two paint schemes noted. Colors appear the same. One paint scheme for freight?
AZL has reverence for ARR. I like that.
Xeitl!
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Post by Scott on Apr 30, 2024 14:03:29 GMT -5
Thank you.
If I really and truly wanted a working model of the Baldwin RF-16, I’d go with Broadway Limited Imports.
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Post by Scott on Apr 28, 2024 13:05:10 GMT -5
P.S.:
Bellied up Aisyelle. Not bad. Might find more than just the power of three this SD40-2 season.
Willin’ to bet her contents that that April Fools’ ain’t no joke.
’Course, you know my piggybank is named Aisyelle.
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Post by Scott on Apr 28, 2024 12:58:14 GMT -5
In the matter of AZLers versus person(s) who, allegedly, cried shark, we, the jury, as per the aforementioned, find, unanimously, our beloved leader(s) not guilty of crying shark.
April Fools’ Day announcement was more than 25-words to deliver news of the sharknose. An author of that calibre would not use that many words and would not spend that much time to pull the wool over our eyes, to hoodwink us, to lead us up the garden path, to blow smoke up …, or to b …, et cetera.
Undec is just a pendulum swinging.
Is someone being devil’s advocate?
One down, one to go, may apply here. …
“One or two more locomotives … in development.” (23:36, AZL 2024 Winter Update video.) Perhaps the sharknose is one of those one or two.
Recall, too, roundabout that April Fools’, Han’s mailbox was flooded with shark queries. Please, let us refrain from disturbing Hans. He may be studying photos of H24-66s.
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Post by Scott on Apr 26, 2024 15:15:14 GMT -5
RSs and RSDs making their way to the starting gate possibly before SD50s and SD60s? It’s a win-win situation! I hope Galactic Headquarters feels the same way. Cosmetic changes—I can understand that. If blue was, for example, added inadvertently to the top surfaces of a CSX SD60, we’d wanna go back and correct that right quick. Above the sills blue would be only the typography. We know there’s far too many variations on the hockey stick for CSX and not enough of the virtually all-gray stealth for CSX. With this, I am reminded of my special fondness for AZL’s penchant for both research and reverence for historical accuracy. [Attached:] Why look, is that a virtually all-gray CSX SD60 … with a Seaboard SD50 in tow?! Scott Attachments:
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Post by Scott on Apr 26, 2024 8:39:33 GMT -5
Aloha,
Ha! You can’t fool me. These beauties are light-years away. I shall not be distracted while SD50s are waiting in the wings. … On the other hand, imagine the RS-3 run concurrent with SD50s. Wowzers! That’d be like serving rack of lamb in addition to baccalà for the holidays. Moreover, what if one is anticipating acquisition of three road names in both runs? Wowzers again: Wowzers!
Aloha,
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Post by Scott on Apr 24, 2024 0:12:41 GMT -5
Not only are you skilled in the multifarious hobby of model railroading, you are skilled in time management. You knew to cut your losses in order to make the deadline.
Notwithstanding, I like very much your idea of a connecting an adjacent yard—A plethora of Märklín track. Yes?
Very shrewd to devise a mix of gypsum and (presumably non-sanded) tile grout for (sculpting and carving or) modeling rock.
I hope someday you can get your hands on Hydrocal, for your own sake, so you may have a chance to compare it with the mix you used here.
I see you’re no stranger to Woodland Scenics. There’s many possibilities for turf, paint, pigments, and texturizing with Sculptamold. I like that you took an interest in all of that and did a fine job in execution.
Best—Rather, …
Kippis for sure!
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Post by Scott on Apr 23, 2024 20:29:47 GMT -5
Nice work, Nebraska. Very nice.
Tell us what you finally went with to carve your rock formations.
Looks like somebody is making their deadline.
Rock on! … Rather, … Kippis!
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Post by Scott on Apr 22, 2024 19:48:33 GMT -5
Still not seeing what Hans has me tendin’ to believe. GP38-2s—I don’t see the flaws. With different track-and-powerpack setups, yeah, they tend to run a bit jerky. Other days they run smoothly like other AZL locomotives in my collection. The GP38-2s may have arthritis. After several late night reads, I decided rather suddenly to purchase an AZL B&O Mikado. Looks like I bought the last one from a well-known AZL dealer, too. Irony! From a prototypical perspective, as the B&O had a fleet of 100 (and the first fleet of Mikado from Baldwin), it was the last B&O Mikado, 4599. (Virtually all Mikados were scraped by 1958, and they were all made in proliferation immediately following WWI.) Breathtaking! I am in absolute awe at the quality of the craftsmanship and the incredible level of detail (and that I do not take for granted). Even if the product has been shelved for a decade, for itty-bitty American Z scale steam engines, I feel AZL should have reaped some type of award for American ingenuity, excellence in hobby product design, or a consumer industrial design award—Whatever—And I don’t mean a plaque from YouTube! As papa used to say, keep those cards and letters coming. Most appreciatively, Scott Attachments:
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Post by Scott on Apr 21, 2024 6:16:45 GMT -5
Would like to purchase these cars for my layout. i want a tunnel but i cant find any info on how tall these are? i have rokuhan track. May wish to consider doing what the prototype world did to the multifarious and magnificent concrete tunnel portals of yesteryear. … Cat-earing: Part of me avoids containers for this reason. Scott Attachments:
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Post by Scott on Apr 20, 2024 11:55:47 GMT -5
Nice! Love the sleeping Chessie the kitty cat scheme. (Ya know, the SD50 was the last locomotive type painted in the Chessie scheme.)
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Post by Scott on Apr 20, 2024 11:51:51 GMT -5
Thanks ever so much Hans.
Hi-res closeups appreciated greatly. Appreciative of the color and scale relationship with the airslides.
B&O Chessie road numbers seem their own homage to the ’80s ’cause that’s when we saw Chessie SD50s and Chessie SD60s on the rails.
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Post by Scott on Apr 19, 2024 6:39:49 GMT -5
Aloha,
All AZL releases are WTW.
WTW should be the company initialism.
Or something having to do with fine wine.
Aloha,
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