Skip to main content

I think that's the year. These freight cars are good looking, free rolling, and inexpensive. If you can get past the plastic wheels and couplers they're a pretty good deal. Is there some kind of catalog or listing of what was actually produced back then including the road names they used? Seems to be a lot of stuff. Any info on these cars or your opinion on them is appreciated.  Rich

Original Post

Replies sorted oldest to newest

Nice cars; much of the tooling lives on in 2014 as the Atlas Trainman line - same tooling from the frame up. I like the trucks; very attractive and well-detailed, with low,

scale-type bolsters.

 

The couplers work well with typical O-gauge couplers, and the vertical uncoupling "shaft" can be ignored or easily removed. They are dummy couplers to us - but so are almost all Weaver plastic couplers, along with anyone's couplers with plastic "springs" (read: broken).

 

I buy the trucks/couplers when I can find them for conversions/upgrades (yes, upgrades).

 

The graphics are pretty good for the era (1960's - 1980's or so). 

 

The cars are light; that's why the Cosmic Big Bang gave us lead.

I have a boxcar, stock car, gondola and a couple cabooses. 

Used weaver 3 rail trucks and couplers on most of them. 

For the cabooses, I popped out the plastic axles and popped in metal ones, then took modified 3 rail couplers and mounted them to the body. If you ever plan on backing up your train, add weights to these cars. Otherwise they will derail when backing through a switch. 

I was buying train sets and giving them to my girlfriends' kids.  I forget the actual deal, but I think it was $14.95 for the switcher, three cars, a caboose, and a complete oval of snap track.  The Rivarossi stuff was in the same ballpark. - I got a couple of 0-8-0s for $12.95 each, and several F-M Diesels.  I do not collect plastic anything, but still, at those prices . . .

 

 

To John, Kurt, Chuck, and Rusty. Thanks to all of you. F-9's and the switchers seem to attract more attention at auctions these days, and people may be wising up about the ore cars because they're not for sale as often anymore. The kits are a snap to put together, literally. Also easy to paint and decal. Rusty, those pictures are exactly what I'm looking for thank you. It's amazing most of this stuff is still available new in the box at very reasonable prices.

I didn't say that they were the "same as the Trainman line"; I referred to the

body molds as used in the plug-door boxcar and the gondola, for example. The

trucks are of course different, and there are now Trainman O cars that never existed

in the earlier line.

 

I have indeed done a side-by-side comparison of the plug-door boxcars, and as I recall,

the gon. Same tooling for the parts in common.

Post

OGR Publishing, Inc., 1310 Eastside Centre Ct, Ste 6, Mountain Home, AR 72653
800-980-OGRR (6477)
www.ogaugerr.com

×
×
×
×
Link copied to your clipboard.
×
×