a serious stretch of imagination

It's a 1/8th scale model of the rocket, being transported to a display at the Smithsonian.

It is an O-27 model?

Easy pull the rocket and make it a statue for your science center. Use the flat car elsewhere. 

I would say that the car looks pretty good though. I could accept the scale rocket version Arthur!

I think that MTH set made a short time back had several sections to haul the same rocket?

PRR Man,

   Repeat after me, they are only toys, only toys, only toys, a childs play thing.

PCRR/Dave

Looks like a flatcar Wilie E would order from the ACME Catalog!

This came up earlier. I brought up the same ting that this would be a model of a model (roughly 1/30 scale) of the Saturn V itself.

Such a model would be hollow and I couldn't imagine it'd be shipped by rail.

FYI, I've seen all the existing Saturn Vs and most of the existing parts that were to be used. Huntsville has a really neat model of one displayed vertically, too...

Don't have any photos of the Houston one saved on photobucket, sorry...

It is a Menard's Car

NASA should have the Saturn !B and the V in production.  They worked.  Then again, if it works, the government gets rid of it!

Just ordered 4 of these.  First order of business it to remove the rockets.  Other than that these are very nice cars for the money.  I do wish mernads would sell them without the rocket.  The rocket adds $10 bucks per car and I'm not going to use them!

Dominic Mazoch posted:

NASA should have the Saturn !B and the V in production.  They worked.  Then again, if it works, the government gets rid of it!

Actually, they will be making updated engines from the same design used on the first stage Saturn V rockets for the new SLS launch system!

Click here to see more on the SLS

It's pretend.

My pet want is a Shuttle with stacks. Now that Menards has broken the ice I'd like the Endeavor please. ��

p51 posted:

This came up earlier. I brought up the same ting that this would be a model of a model (roughly 1/30 scale) of the Saturn V itself.

Such a model would be hollow and I couldn't imagine it'd be shipped by rail.

FYI, I've seen all the existing Saturn Vs and most of the existing parts that were to be used. Huntsville has a really neat model 

What do you figure, P51? Maybe remove a couple of upper stages, add an old-fashioned nosecone, and it's almost a WW2 V2 rocket?

Bossman284 posted:

Just ordered 4 of these.  First order of business it to remove the rockets.  Other than that these are very nice cars for the money.  I do wish mernads would sell them without the rocket.  The rocket adds $10 bucks per car and I'm not going to use them!

Definitely agree with you Bossman.

If I were to buy some, I, too, would remove the rockets and the supports for the rocket (have no idea how much work that would be).  And, while the price of all the Menards rolling stock is very low, it just seems a shame to pay an extra $10 per car for something that I would have no use for.

I have several Menards buildings, and I am patiently waiting for NS rolling stock....just please no extras (like the rocket) and no weathering.

It's only a model..........

https://youtu.be/m3dZl3yfGpc

Here are a couple of pictures of the Saturn V in Huntsville taken 40 years ago.

PRR Man posted:

I saw this flat car being offered for sale, it's load is (get this) a Saturn V rocket.

now a Saturn V assembly measured about 350' tall, give or take a yard or two.

where are the other 8 flat cars needed to haul this rocket?

scott.smith posted:

Here are a couple of pictures of the Saturn V in Huntsville taken 40 years ago...

A point well and succinctly made, Scott Smith.

p51 posted:

Dominic Mazoch posted:

NASA should have the Saturn !B and the V in production.  They worked.  Then again, if it works, the government gets rid of it!

Actually, they will be making updated engines from the same design used on the first stage Saturn V rockets for the new SLS launch system!

Click here to see more on the SLS

I believe the engines being used on the SLS system are updated versions of the shuttle engines that are themselves updated versions of the J2 engines used on the 2nd and third stage of the saturn V. Saturn V first stage used five F1 engines that produced 1.5 million pounds of thrust each and burned kerosene and liquid oxygen. The smaller J2s burned liquid Hydrogen and liquid oxygen as does the new engine for the SLS. I looked into this a year or so ago and my memory could be flawed so correct me if I'm wrong.

Dominic Mazoch posted:

NASA should have the Saturn !B and the V in production.  They worked.  Then again, if it works, the government gets rid of it!

They don't need it anymore since the TR-3B became operational in the late 1980s...

I ordered two of the flats with rockets and they will go great with the train that pulls them around my Lionel Rocket Launcher.

This is a 1/96 scale model. Half the size it would be in 1/48. I think we're going to need a bigger flatcar.

MarkLX200 posted:

This is a 1/96 scale model. Half the size it would be in 1/48. I think we're going to need a bigger flatcar.

I believe that would be double  that size. (The bigger the denominator, the smaller the model.)

Moonson posted:

MarkLX200 posted:

This is a 1/96 scale model. Half the size it would be in 1/48. I think we're going to need a bigger flatcar.

I believe that would be double  that size. (The bigger the denominator, the smaller the model.)

That's why I said half the the size it would be in 1/48

Moonson posted:

MarkLX200 posted:

This is a 1/96 scale model. Half the size it would be in 1/48. I think we're going to need a bigger flatcar.

I believe that would be double  that size. (The bigger the denominator, the smaller the model.)

I believe he was saying the rocket pictured is half the size it would be in 1/48.

Oh, I see. My bad.

FrankM

1:48 Saturn V command and service module atop 38-foot Menards flatcar.

Jim R. posted:

1:48 Saturn V command and service module atop 38-foot Menards flatcar.

Great model. I love the Apollo stuff. That's when I grew up and I lived and breathed the space program.