Ok its been a pretty long time since MTH announced the R11/34. What do you guys want to see next I know alot of us want the R15's but I think this one would be a great choice by either MTH or Lionel

Ben if these subways are the BMT Triplex cars,then I would def want to have these babies
in my collection
I used to see them running on the Brighton line from underneath the Avenue H station while I was playing on the freight lines that ran all the way to sea beach. They crossed underneath the subways.
The triplexs ran on the express tracks and ran with 12 cars. I would love to watch those cars rumble on through,I don't remember where they terminated but they were sweet to watch.
R-10s would be nice to have ,even the R-15s,but the triplexs would be a special addition to the older cars such as R-1s,Standards and Q cars.


watch the closing doors

Hi Bob
Yes these are the D Type Triplexes Think they would be a hit

These would be pretty cool too

R15 or WF R33 for railking and R10 for primier. Sorry guys just stuck on the equipment in service from the 60s through the 80s..

love those SIRT cars...........

watch the closing doors

Hey Bob Those are SIRT cars that were transferred to the TA That picture is on the Culver shuttle

BEN place my preorder on the d-types

thanks for that,Ben.........I wish they never tore down that line..
well,we have our memories...I remember it fondly.

watch the closing doors

oh man, you read my mind!! you cant have standards without the triplex!! also would like to see R68's, R160's, a remake or the R42 in Premier possibly, maybe even the R44/46. (those can be made for SIRT as well) And for Old time's sake, Gibbs cars, Composites, or even some open platform El types. (Malbone Street, anyone?) And maybe, a REAL work locomotive and work cars, not a bootleg SW1500 and railroad equipment painted in transit colors (Who ever saw an engineer car , searchlight car, or giant crane car with tender on the Pelham Bay line anyway?) They could of course, remeake All those r12, 17, 21, 26, etc, in the platinum/blue strip motif, or R21,26,36 etc as REAL Redbirds. Maybe even have changeable number boards, route and destination signs, and PS2 sound effects that can be downloaded by USB so you can customise the set for whatever route you like. Just a few ideas off the top of my head...

I rode those BMT D Type Cars every day when I started to work at Con Ed NY in 1960 (before they were scrapped 1964-1965).
If I missed a train, I used to count 12 "cars" going by the platform, but later realized that these trains consisted of four units each having three "triplex cars" with the same number, but lettered A,B,C (example 6044A, 6044B, 6044C ). Each three "car" section unit rode on four 4- wheel trucks. You could always walk between the A and B or B and C section of any unit through that swivel connector above the two middle trucks (which was reminiscent of my first Lionel set, a 1935 Flying Yankee Train given to me by my father's boss since his two sons were going to Princeton and were considered too old to be playing with toy trains, but that's another story). I had that set on the basement floor when my wife kicked it while doing laundry and after she had four daughters and no sons, I sold it for $50 at my first garage sale. Later I learned what $ they were going for at the first swap meets I attended at Dover High School, the early Greenberg shows, METCA and York TCA.

Yes I would like to see MTH also model the BMT D type "triplex" since at the time 121 units (363 "cars") co-existed with the BMT Standards and Q cars while there were only ten prototype cars of the R11/R34

www.njhirailers.com

I would like to see either MTH or Lionel make an R-38.

Hello Rail King
Welcome to the forum. The R38 would probably be an easy one for MTH to make basing it on the R32 tooling.

"The R38 would probably be an easy one for MTH to make basing it on the R32 tooling."

I agree.

Similarly, an R9 or R 10 could be made with different car # and/or color scheme using the Premiere R1 tooling
and R15's could be made using previously run Railking R17 tooling (different side doors with circular windows)

Could MTH re-issue the R21's as "new" R22's and R26's as "new" R29's; picture window R36's as "new" R33's, etc.
in different car numbers and colors (without any graffiti or MTA logo) ?

There is still a world of possibilities left for MTh Throw in different paintschemes on each car, different lines and destinations and a ton of subways will be sold. That is unless they think the market is saturated already because they don't seem like they are in a rush to offer any new ones