Dear Intermountain, I wish you would…

Alright, it's time for Intermountain Railways turn under the microscope.

What would you like to see IM produce or rerelease?

 

The milk reefers (especially the Chateau Martin wine car) that they announced over 2 years ago (and I've been waiting for with reservation in hand) and only JUST cancelled.

...and the 8k tank cars that they have been promising for over a year. I thought they were supposed to be out by now?

 

I would like to see the 12 car runs of ATSF reefers return. Can never have enough of those! Maps or no maps, just give us ATSF guys more!

 

Rerun of the ATSF cattle/stock cars. -- Yeah - 8K tank cars would be good. We won't get into the F3 and F7's -- undec please!!

Wolf

 

I'd like to see some of the SD40-2s come out, then from to announce another few dozen roadnames.

 

8000 gal tank cars announced Nov 2013 for an ETA of May/Jun 2014...I KNEW it had been awhile. They are beginning to sound like Concor. Announcing stuff that may never be released (or may be next month).

 

The last of the Shasta Daylight cars that they announced 10+ years ago...

 

+1 on the 8000 gallon tanks.

 

What they have announced over the last two or three years!!!!!!!

 

What ^^^^^^^ HE ^^^^^^^ said!

 

Kits I can assemble.

 

Right. The models I miss the most from Intermountain are the $7.95- $12.95 kits. I've built hundreds of them ( Tank cars, boxcars, gondola's) and I when I find them on E Bay I try to pick them up.

The several discussions I have had with intermountain left little hope that the kits were not profitable. There was a time however when intermountain ONLY made kits. Early 90s maybe ?

Now I collect the intermountain cars more slowly, they are expensive. I did manage to get many of the war emergency cars but there are still a few I'd like.

Randy

 

That was sarcasm. Their kits are like 10 dollar boxes of small parts I have to break one at a time before I throw the whole box away and and regret the decisions I made in life that got me to that point.

 

Please make a U50

 

Like mentioned above, I'd like them to produce what they've announced over the last few years. Would also like to see them not announce so many roadnames/numbers at once. Modelers can't afford to reserve/buy so much at once ie announce 12 numbers of a 4650 hopper in your favorite RRs

 

Well, I totally missed the sarcasm. Like I said I've built hundreds of them. The first few didn't turn out perfect but after a while I learned the tricks.

Randy

 

We need a U50C in N scale, please.

 

Ditto here. Hated building them at first, but once I got a good sprune cutter I enjoyed putting them together.

 

Then both Concor AND IM can say that they are releasing a U50 sometime in 2014...