New HO scale loco from Tramway

[marknewton]

Tramway are making more steam locos:

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10285160

 

Lovely little engines that they are, I'll need at least two of them for my steam roster.

 

http://homepage3.nifty.com/EF57/engines/86.htm

 

All the best,

 

 

[Nick_Burman]

Tramway are making more steam locos:

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10285160

 

Lovely little engines that they are, I'll need at least two of them for my steam roster.

 

http://homepage3.nifty.com/EF57/engines/86.htm

 

All the best,

 

If Tramway comes out with an N scale version, I'll also take a couple.

 

Let us first see what their C11 will look like...I have one reserved...

 

 

Cheers NB

[bikkuri bahn]

Kudos to Tramway, looks like they have found a very nice niche, catering to JNR era modelers.  Now if they would also try a C50, or even better, a D51 or D50, since Kato seems dead-set on not re-issuing their HO D51, though they churn out dmus, passenger and freight cars from decades-old molds consistently.

[marknewton]

bb, it'll be interesting to see what they do next. Any of the locos you mention would be good choices and I'd buy any and all of them, but of the three I'd most like to see them do a D50. That's a class of engine with heaps of potential for different versions to be modelled.

 

Like you , I wonder why Kato hasn't re-issued their D51 - maybe the molds/tooling are damaged?

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

[westfalen]

I may have to get one to go with my C12.  Now to decide which version to get.

[bikkuri bahn]

Kato released an HO DD51 "starter" train set with only one container flat, not exactly the most inspiring combination. Much better would have been a D51 with three or four two axle freight cars and a cabin car- much more operating interest (or play value) and value for money (I'm sure some veteran modelers would buy such a set from one of the big box retailers at discount just for the locomotive and rolling stock). Come to think of it, we may have had this conversation before...

Edited July 21, 2014 by bikkuri bahn

[westfalen]

Have ordered one of the original cab/no smoke deflector versions.

[keitaro]

I want to see an E10 in ho and N Gauge :) my Ma is not exactly a great runner

[marknewton]

Good on yer, Westfalen - if their 8620s are of similar quality to their previous models of the C12s, you won't be dissappointed. The two I have look great, run beautifully, and were very simple to convert to DCC.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

[westfalen]

Yes, I have a C12, it is a very nice loco.  I'm looking forward to getting the N scale C11s as well.