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Hi Guys,

It's been a while but I'm back....and I can say I told you so....here's a picture of my latest acquisition.....a USA Trains 89' enclosed auto rack.
Of course it's 1/29 scale as you old timers that know me, know I left 'O' scale several years ago.
I told you so, because I predicted 1/29 G scale would have a full length auto rack before 'O' scale.
I am happy to see Lionel coming out with one and will go to P&D hobby shop to see one when they come out. But it will be hard to beat this car however, since it has the detail of a brass car.



This is an awesome model with working end doors and the side panels have the holes in them so you can see thru the car.
I removed the couplers that came with it and will install body mount couplers soon.

Enjoy,
Brian Briggs
DT&I 1980ish

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Hi Brian,  got mine back in November.  It is AWESOME!!!  Glad to see so many G scalers on the forum.  Here's some pics of mine and the curve is 10 foot diameter.  It doesn't look too bad and handles the curve very nicely with some 60 foot cars.

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That mess in the background is my so called train room.

 

Rick

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Patrick,

Yes, I'll eventually lower it. No hurry since I have nowhere to run it currently. It sits .2 too high as is. It comes with 36" wheels so putting on correct 33" wheels will lower it by .052. The rest shouldn't be too hard to achieve.

 

Rick,

They are nice cars....I'd have bought a BN car but I don't want the TTX flatcar, it's too new for my modeling era.

 

Brian

 If you wanted a SP heritage instead, I just got one. I bet that NS is handsome. Doesn't it have the white face? (above the low hood). I've got a MTH NS DASH8 G scale that's good lokking as well.

I got the USA CSX SD70MAC  myself and added MTH PS to it. I wanted another CSX so I may paint it and add flared radiators. Someone here will probably call me out for something incorrect......or a mad SP fan!!!

I run my 2 rail O on AC power. I switched the G scale recently to DC. I didn't notice any change.

 In general it's not too bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcDgFxneLSA

 That's my engines running both scales. Now that I got more modern 1/29 scale engines, the difference is much bigger. When I put the modern ones together they don't look right. The rolling stock is more forgiving at 5'! I think I'll be running consists of each scale separate in the future. I won't give up on MTH G yet. I love the control system  and wait for more modern releases. I've got their G gauge steamers too.

Too bad  you boys were not around  when I was making them 

 

 

I was making  b i-level so  the  buyers could  use the  stupid  1:43  vehicles available.

 

If I  may, I wish all   Merry Christmas, and   Happy  any appropriate  Holidays  at this time of year.

 

I have not been modeling  for  quite a while now, as my time is  taken  in restoring  a  fiberglass "Kit Car"  that I built in  1960-61

 

Ed Reutling  reutling@embarqmail.com

I managed to get hold of three Lykens Valley ATSF Tri-level auto rack kits. Two appear to be complete while I'll need to make bolsters for the third one. I've been thinking of duplicating the stanchions in resin so that an Atlas 89-foot flat could be used as a base for a bi-level or tri-level auto rack.

 

The modern fully-enclosed auto racks are nice, but lack the character of the open ones. The down side is that the open ones weigh a ton after you fill them with cars.

Originally Posted by RICKC:

Joe, I wanted to get an MTH Dash 8 but didn't know how it would look against the 1:29 scale trains.  How do you feel it looks to you when compared, size wise, against the 1:29 engines?  It the size difference that noticeable or not?

 

Rick


 I hope you guys are OK that I'm posting this here. The original poster too. I'm trying to capture the scale thing. For some reason it looks different in person?

 

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