Need suggestions for this prototype

GGD is taking preorders for Battleship Gondolas. They are offering an unlettered version. Take a look at these

Thanks, Gilly, I will keep my eye on these.  I have since learned the prototype shown in my picture was made by Thrall.

Yes these Thrall Gons were made by an O scaler in the Midwest by the name of Barny Stumple. He made a bunch of them for the ATSF O scale layout at the Chicago Science museum which was the layout PRIOR to the HO layout currently there.  YOU can see the mold and the crude body from the Article found in a defunct "48/ft O Scale" magazine. The cars were vaccum molded plastic. Overall the basic bodys were good BUT the details like the Brake system and Air reservoir would best be cut out and replaced with brass parts. The cars maybe hard to find in the few O scale shows around the country. Many O scalers don't realize what they have and perceive it to be crude O scale collectible in todays standards.

Below are some examples of Barney Stumple Freight cars. 

Gunderson 5 unit Twin stack car.

Thrall double stack unit.

Details of the Thrall car that was never completed

Trailers tooled from AMT 1:43 kits that I suspect. Quantum is a 48' scale trailer using actual AMT Dollies. The Trailer behind is a 45'

The Tractor end of the trailer. Notice the crude molded in details from the Vaccum Molding Process.

the Rear end of the trailers.

I hope this helps!

Gilly@N&W posted:

GGD is taking preorders for Battleship Gondolas. They are offering an unlettered version. Take a look at these

As nice as those Golden Gate Depot "Battleship Gondolas" will be, they are nothing like the modern Thrall "Bathtub Gondola" shown in the original poster's photo. Those steam era "Battleship Gons" had three axle trucks, while the much more modern "Bathtub Gons" use the heavy duty two axle trucks, and the bodies are most likely light weight structural aluminum.

Depending on how big your desire is for that car, you could have Alan Graziano located on the scenery forum to build you one.

Didn't Jerry Snow make a batch of these from brass?  I agree - intriguing hopper, and I rarely stray from late steam models.

Looks like a candidate for styrene scratchbuilding of masters (3D printed masters?) and then resin casting.

Wasn't the Atlas O version that car? close?

I imagine the Atlas O Coalveyor is the closest thing on the market albeit still very different. 

Best thing about some of these prototypes is that they are often seen in ones or twos now in scrap, etc service, not in unit train service costing us a lot to assemble!  And if you've got a lot of hours to fill, rrpicturearchives.net can easily do that: http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...cture.aspx?id=666211 
Alabama Byproducts Corporation ... hmmmm, what would you call your pike's scrap corp.?

Jason

Aaaah, Alabama Byproducts Corporation = ABC Coke ... thanks Google.

What a hobby.  Forgive me guys - wife's gone to art class, so nothing better to do 
https://hawkinsrails.net/industrials/abc/abc.html

Jason

Weaver has a car that may work with a little modification. Their 4 bay high side coal hopper is a close match. There is one for sale on ebay right now. Paint scheme is Reading & Northern. Search "Weaver O Scale" It's listed on page 4 about a third of the way down. Hope this helps.

Mark

Jason Dickie posted:

Aaaah, Alabama Byproducts Corporation = ABC Coke ... thanks Google.

Unfortunately the link to the freight car you posted is not what the O.P. is looking at. Your link is a former CP Rail coalveyer car a totally different car than the thrall gondola.

Mark Zeigler posted:

Weaver has a car that may work with a little modification. Their 4 bay high side coal hopper is a close match. There is one for sale on ebay right now. Paint scheme is Reading & Northern. Search "Weaver O Scale" It's listed on page 4 about a third of the way down. Hope this helps.

Mark

 

Again that Weaver high side 4 bay hopper will need a LOT of work to even resemble the Thrall car.

One is best off finding plans in RMC or MR and scratchbuilding it with styrene!