Here is 2 cars from my own railroad , the one I have not worked on in 2 years ! Yikes
Maybe one day , at least I will have some cool freight cars . I like going online and finding cars to copy .
The Railbox and Simplot cars are modeled from photos. The TTX flat as well.
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Awesome work! Thanks for sharing!
Ricky
Those are awesome!! I especially like the pipe load- very, very cool!
Very nice cars. Love the attention to detail and pipe load.
Beautiful work! The pipe load is sweet and I love those old Simplot cars. Thanks for posting.
Nice work, the tie-downs in the railbox are a nice touch....as is the rust....
Oh sure, keep those to yourself! After seeing them, my cars look bland. Sure, thanks a lot! Geez, if it looked anymore real............
(very nice!)
I thought I saw that rail box car on the bay about a month ago. Great work BTW, I could only wish I was half as good as you. Was the flat car pretty straight foreword to build? I think a couple of those will be on my build list after I finish my current project.
-Paul
Yikes! I thought I was looking at photos of the real thing. Congratulations.
Very Nice Work, The raibox with the drums inside is my favorite. Thanks for sharing
Great work Bernie! I love the RailBox car. Guys: Here is a BNSF reefer that Bernie did. The detail and graphics are phenomenal. Bernie does excellent work.
Fantastic looking cars. The detail is superb! Thanks for sharing with us. Terry
Outstanding looking freight cars! Now get to work on the railroad.
Outstanding auto parts car and BNSF ICE Reefer
Thanks Terry .
Wow Awesome work, you said you built some of them from photos, most photos of trains i see are angle shots or far away shots. How did you get your dimensions to build all the parts? i see dimension of cars on the internet but they just have overall length and width and height. Those doors on the box cars look pretty intricate and I'm just curious how you built them to prototype. I am going to get into scratch building sometime in the near future hopefully and I'm just in research mode right now haha.
Advice would be much appreciated, Thanks
Hi Mike ,
Actually I go into sidings and take measurements off cars and Photos .
A lot of dimensional data is right on the cars . I am not a exacto, perfecto on every last thing . I do get the weathering and graffiti as close as possible .
Scratch building is an acquired skill. The more you do it the better the results and have patience . For example to make a master for molding on say a Hy-cube box car , it may take 100 hrs to make the master . Tough sledding . But to do just one , old model magazines have many drawings and blue prints . I use these to.
Here is a car I am in process of making .
I look at these as a form of industrial art .
Hi Mike , thanks for your comments , how about them Illinois Central Hy-cubes , they look awesome because they been around so long , repainted and then they get tagged !! , the old and the new , plus rusty and dusty.
Mike are you ready for that order you emailed me a few months back ?
Bernie
Paul the Pennsy N5c was actually detailed from KOH's photos of actual versions of these. This has the wood plank end decks , and hard to see in this picture , even the small wind deflectors outside the cupola windows.
Awesome stuff man! I'm definitely enjoying these. All of these are nice and I'm a fan of your 86' Hy-cubes. Thanks for posting.
I thought I saw that rail box car on the bay about a month ago. Great work BTW, I could only wish I was half as good as you. Was the flat car pretty straight foreword to build? I think a couple of those will be on my build list after I finish my current project.
-Paul
Hi Paul , yes you did see this on the bay , Item number:221171565816.
Bernie
These cars are great!
for some reason, I'm thinking you need a big blue building with working doors to be the car shop to keep these cars rolling
OK.....I need a big blue bldg w/........
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