Model Reviews; VGN AG etc.

[NW Modeling List]

I read how we need this or that to be perfect per the blueprints we 
have. and all this time talking about brass locomotives in HO costing 
thousands of dollars. I'm in  N scale and would just be happy to see a A 
or Y, which were manufactured several years back, in plastic that was 
halfway close to the correct look of the original locomotive.  The only 
thing I've seen in the pass ten years has been the J in several 
different numbers and paint.  And sadly all I heard was this didn't have 
the correct stack or drivers or paint. I am not a rivet counter carrying 
a scale rule in my back pocket and Google ready to go on my smart phone. 
Unless we decide to build our own locomotives and sell them through the 
NWHS it will never happen.
Joe Grzelak

On 2/4/2015 8:10 PM, NW Modeling List wrote:
> MTH made the Erie model, theres plenty of details differences than 
> just the rear truck.
> MTH just went one way and refused to go another. They keep saying 
> about making money back......sheeshe...MTH, IF YOU GOT BETTER IN THE 
> HO FIELD NOBODY WOULD HAVE ISSUES,  Instead they are more focused on 
> their own proprietariness and in the HO world, that won't work.
>
> -Lynn-
>
> On 2/4/2015 10:40 AM, nw-modeling-list-request at nwhs.org wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 12:40:29 -0000
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>> At least the AG has the right number of wheels, which is more than 
>> can be
>> said of the MTH VGN Triplex!  I asked the MTH staff at last year's NMRA
>> Convention why they did not put the four wheel trailing truck on the 
>> model.
>> As anticipated, the answer was that they would never have got back 
>> the extra
>> cost.
>>
>> On a different level, at Roanoke last July there was a specially painted
>> bright yellow hopper car celebrating Pier 6. I understand that it is
>> available as a N scale model.  What are the prospects of one, or a 
>> way of
>> creating one, in HO scale??
>>
>> Ted Roberts (UK)
>
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