I've been saying for a while now that it'd be great to get a tanker troublesome truck.

James isn't getting redesigned, just more accurately painted. So seeing as the others have more accurate liveries, all they might do now is replace the faces with more accurate CGI ones, and even that's a stretch.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IIyrH14Js-k

It looks like while we have an open cab it has as much detail as the gender locos.

I'm sure they're just waiting for a large enough supply to be made so they can put him up for Sale without the worries of selling out so quickly like they did with Skarloey.

I'm still confused as to weather or not Rosie is released, and if not when will she be, I mean supposedly she's atleast at the warehouse. Does anyone know what's happening?

Maybe this is my lack of knowledge, but couldn't that just not add flanges to the center wheels? I mean I've seen a UP Big Boy in the scale and it seemed fine, they just took out the 2nd and 4th set of wheels on each set of driving wheels.

That was fast, compared to Oliver atleast.

Quote from: Trainman203 on July 03, 2017, 11:32:40 AM
The thing about the overland set is the bright toylike colors and cars that are too modern for the steam era.  It's two cars longer than what I showed, so add two more  brown or boxcar red boxcars .  Or black twin hoppers.

I was referring to the length. I know about the realism because otherwise I would've said just to get he overland. I was just trying to say the idea is possible because look at how long the overland is. The only reason I don't see them doing it is because the train sets are meant for kids to start out with, something that will catch the children's eyes, so a realistic set with more dull colors wouldn't have the same effect. They'd probably start out with a shunting set or something first just to test it out and go from there, if they were to take the realism idea. I would love a realistic set though, I could always use more track and I tend to stay with steam locomotives, something about them is just mesmerizing in a way.

Quote from: Trainman203 on July 01, 2017, 01:03:20 PM
This is the kind of steam era freight train I am thinking of, using all currently available products.  Accurate period cars and paint schemes, no loud toylike colors.

It may be a little long of a train but freights were long, and boxcars were predominant.

Believe me it's really not that long of a train, I mean just look at the overland set, there's a ton of cars there. I'd say there's nothing stopping bachmann and if they see enough interest they may go for it.

I know that the Thomas & Friends line is really OO scale. That's all I can tell you. If you ask in the Thomas & Friends thread they'll be able to tell you.

Quote from: RAM on June 26, 2017, 10:39:48 PM
I don't know why any locomotive was meant to pull only Budd cars.

Its not that it's an only pull kinda thing, it's just the loco was shaped in such a fashion that they're meant to look really good with budd cars. The design was short lived so they were only able to pull budd cars before they all were retired. It's the loco in my profile picture. One still exists at the B&O museum. Anyways I'd like to know because walther discontinued almost all the ones what the loco would actually pull. So I need some to go with the loco.

Just a quick question, are these budd coaches? I'm just confused and they look kinda like it. If not what is their basis. There's a certain loco I have that was meant to pull budd coaches and for some reason those are really hard to find in a simple silver livery which would go great with the loco.

It's just the production cycle. According to a post made a while back they were actually expecting James to go out of stock around this time. Models were just produced at a certain time with a certain supply being sent to the Bachmann warehouse. Seeing as atleast Thomas is the main character there's no way they'd get rid of him. So it's just that people bought their warehouse stock and they're just now waiting on a shipment from China. Though this does mean we may see the new James repaints soon, if they were to be produced like announced 2 years ago.

So does anyone know of anything that's out now that would look good with it. I'd really like to run it.

Quote from: HLC Railroad on May 27, 2017, 05:46:08 PM
Here's some 3-D printed rolling stock if anyone wants it.

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/elsbridge-model-shop?section=&sort=pricelh

There's some different/more accurate slate wagons and a flatbed and another wagon of sorts that could maybe be used to make Cora. Just thought I'd share.

There's now a "Gunpowder Van" and a coach on that shop as well. Figure some people can get their coaches from there until Bachmann inevitably comes out with their own.