Let's talk brass train cars!

Some of the WAD cars are single dome. 

 

The Hobbyhill reefers are a really accurate ACF type II with the deep fishbelly center sill... and pretty common though not always reasonable.  I paid $195 for my first one in 1994 when they came out, and they stand up well against today's brass.   

 

If they would have made an AB brake version with replacement steel ends and roof the cars would probably fetch 500 bucks today given the rarity of late steam/diesel era reefers.

Good info to know on the Drakes. I have only ever seen 2 & 3 dome versions, and not many of those!

 

I have a couple reefers, bought mostly for the paint jobs!

 

Simon

not only did I paint all the tanks but I painted all the reefers.  have quite a few in collection when I get them up on wall will post picture. (later in week)  Bob Anson

Bob,

 

Very interesting to know that! One of the tankers I have is marked with your name, but I had no idea you had painted them ALL! A couple of the reefers I have are real works of art! Very much looking forward to seeing your pics!

 

Simon

here ya go Simon, and I still have a couple undec and a duplicate I did not take a pic of.

Bob,

 

Great stuff! Really like that Gerber's and the IGA!

 

Simon

that gerbers has all new artwork and in house decals made.  took awhile to do but turned out nice.  the toughest was the bordens cheese followed by the edelweiss. 

I did manage to send a mail to Bill M who said he no longer had any of the version info but he did remember making both 6k and 8k single dome versions.  

You do absolutely stunning work Bob.  

Just curious of what type of paints and sealers you used since the cars of yours that I have are perfect.

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most of the cars were painted with scalecoat 1 and some were painted with Badgers modelflex, they were sealed with appropriate sealers.  I removed the clear coat that was on models and used Dupont Velvaseal as my primer as I did on all my work.

 

thanks for the compliments.

 

Bob

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Stepen

Bob,

 

I think all agree that AWESOME is indeed the description of your work. Do you recall how many different paint schemes were used on the reefers?

 

Thanks,

Simon

Hold yer wallets fellas, Norm has Protocraft's newest 1937 cars with working Duryea underframes!!!

 

http://www.protocraft.com/category.cfm?Categoryid=45

 

Oh MAN! That's ~F#A#N#T#A#S#T#I#C~

These guys are BEST!

I agree - those cars are awesome, and Protocraft is doing great work.

 

These are not brass, but Bob's Carnation cars spurred me to post them again.  Jim Wilhite (RIP) did the decals for me.  He did great decal work, and I will truly miss his efforts.

 

 

did I read that someone was setting up a Yahoo groups O scale brass group?  is it up where is it, if so.

That would be thrilling. Where? If not I can make one.

YAHOO    SUCKS!!!!

There is an ALL scale "Brasscollectors" group, and some general "O" groups, but nothing all brass "O" to my knowledge.

 

Simon

Do it here, just like the above. Or do it on one of the other O Scale forums not related to Yahoo.  Plenty of folks like brass models.

Fer gosh sakes please stay away from Yahoo. I've enjoyed subscribing to this thread and have learned a LOT re re-entering the brass market. I kinda like it here since I also mess with O-27 and conventional 3 rail...while simultaneously appreciating the fine craftsmanship of brass models. Leaving the topic here also exposes the brass market to other general hobbyists that may know nothing about the topic.

 

No one said that things couldn't exist BOTH places! Apart from that, if you want brass threads here, get off your duff and start some, as they are an ephemeral thing in thread format! If it is a GOOD topic, you will get responses!

 

Simon

I did just that Simon on a past thread re Rich Yoder brass models. Great responses and information to slowly start my collection, subscription to his releases and operations. https://ogrforum.com/topic/rich-yoder-models

 

Bring it to the OST Forum.

This is a great venue for discussing brass train cars.

 

As crappy as the new Yahoo Groups are , my interest in starting a Yahoo group specifically for O scale brass is in that many folks already have Yahoo userids for groups and in that venue we can also buy and sell things within the limited scope of O scale brass.  AND yahoo masks email addresses and allows restrictions to the group which limits spam and gives at least some security and protection to personal information.

 

Certainly there are/may be better solutions but I will do that one so that I don't have to have a host computer and play DBA at night. 

 

You know guys I can make a blog forum on http://coloradooscale.org

This is our club blog and I can easily make a full forum page.

http://coloradooscale.org/club-news/

It's state of the art interface is easy to use. I tell you what I will build the page tonight and post the link here. I will make it public so anyone can join and I would love to see the wonderful things we could talk about.

I thank you Erik!  (sorry for original typo)

 

Blogs are very good for exchanging information... but they don't do well at basic security for buying and selling... or at screening posters.

 

It's a toss up because Yahoo does limit us to "existing customers" where blogs have much better visibility from the web. 

 

O scale brass trains are now up and running!

 

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/g...nversations/messages

 

Yeah, I don't like Yahoo either but it's free and quick. 

 

I have it set to moderation for new members and it's a restricted group so we can at least control what comes in and out. 

 

Hope to find out how to link it to O scale model trains... so far I  can't find the path for that and lunch is over so I gotta get back to work to pay for that brass! 

woohoo just signed up waiting for approval.  Bob

I'll sign up for sure...

 

But DO enjoy it HERE at the O mothership

Me too waiting for approval.

Think I will add the

I just did a slew of approvals... uggh Erik I did yours via an email response and the first thing sent went to reject.

 

I HATE yahoo but for now.

 

BTW any good pix for the masthead?  it is long and flat so what I did is take the one picture I have here at work and post it for now. 

Just noticed that George Kohs posted an update on 11/5 indicating that the N5 project was close to "final inspection".    A while ago I inquired about adding another cabin to my order and he indicated he would have to check on availability... and this he mentioned in the update. 

 

OscaleBrassTrains is open for business on yahoo groups...  been on the road so no time to chat there.

The group is off to a good start.