Maine 2 foot rolling stock and caboose plug...

[Maine 2 Foot]

One of 2 glaring omissions from the On30 Sandy River & Rangely Lakes rolling stock list is the short caboose like the #557, the other is a reasonable likeness of a 26-28 foot boxcar. If the SR&RL decals from the pupwood car were used on the plain flat cars, gondoals, and the current boxcar body it would be a start. Do I dare pray for the smaller forney as well....yup! Even bigger fantasy, the 2-6-2 prairie with seperate tender!

Whada ya say, Mr Bach-man? Time to revisit the possibilities with the decision makers upstairs?

Vince

[Hamish K]

I support the idea of a caboose along the lines of #557, a small Forney and/or an outside frame  2-6-2 with tender similar to the Sandy River ones.

All three items should be popular with Maine modellers but would probably  also have a wider appeal, important when it comes to maximising sales!

A passenger carrying caboose could be useful for logging and other industrial lines  to add some passenger carrying capacity, this occurred quite a lot. If one was made I would like to see a version without a cupola as well as one with a cupola, this would increase its possible use.

Small Forneys were used by a range of lines in a number of different gauges as well as by the Maine 2 footers. The current WW&F #10 was a originally Louisiana 30 inch gauge sugar plantation loco.

Baldwin built outside frame tender 2-6-2s for export as well as for the Maine 2 foot gauge operators, they were made  in a number of gauges including 30 inch gauge for Mexico and other places. This would be a good companion for the existing 2-8-0 as well as good for Maine modellers. It could also be built in a tank loco variation, which would be not unlike the well known "Puffing Billy' 2-6-2t s in Australia (although there would be some differences).

Hamish

[wade]

Vince,
Check out Mount Blue model company. They have SR&RL short caboose kits.
www.mountbluemodelco.com
Some of their kits requior Bachmann cores.
I second the motion for small Forneys and outside frame prairies.
Wade

[SRRL Maine]

Hurray for a small Forney. I am in the middle of trying to build a 'phoney Forney' by using the Bachman Porter and changing the motor adding an apron at the back and a new curly cew cab, different domes etc.
Would be nice to have SRRL rolling stock so count me in.
How about it Mr. Bachman?

[ebtnut]

Interesting article in the new On30 Annual on narrowing and lengthing the Bachmann passenger cars to 2-foot standards. 

[Guilford Guy]

I would buy a 2-6-2, small forney, and some long coaches, if they were to be made.

[Sherwood]

A "short" SR&RL caboose is mentioned in this post, I am only familiar with a few "long" SR&RL cabooses like the ones that MountBlue offers, and have already bought the kit that goes on a Bachmann coach chassis to represent one with some compromises.

Is there a two foot protytpye that is represented by one of the variants of the short MountBlue caboose that fits over the bachmann caboose floor?  I took those to be generic short cabooses, but I still like the look better than the Bachmann one with the narrow cupola.

[Nevada40]

A 2-6-2 would be perfect as the main engine for on the San Juan Island Railway! Go for it, Bachmann!!