Thanks Naveen... i guess i have to get to Stockyard Express.
Clem
clem k posted:Thanks Naveen... i guess i have to get to Stockyard Express.
Clem
Clem,
I don’t know which road names you are looking for but Empire Hobbies in Troy, MI (formerly known as Merri-Seven, in Livonia) had some of these 53’ Atlas-O containers when I visited them, 2 months ago.
These are just my opinion,
Thanks,
Naveen
I want to thank the posters for reminding me who made my thrall cars. I keep forgetting. I was asked again today on Utube and came back to this post.
I wanted to add a pic of some of the custom Maxi-III's I created using the MTH Premier husky stacks. These required cutting the ends, adding details, etc. but all in all, a cool car to add to my intermodal fleet for containers. This also made the cars ride extremely low, with a very prototypical ride height.
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Here's a great thread to bump up out of the dust bin. What's new to add since July 2018?
Excellent thread and very interesting. I hope some experts update this with any newer cars over the last few years.
I got the Atlas 3 car 53' set from Norm's some time back. I didn't have the money to get the containers for them so I ran them empty. I was very lucky recently to get a deal on 4 of the new Atlas 53' containers. Another fantastic release in O scale for us.
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Great writeup!
Just got some Atlas 45' containers to stack on my 40' K-line cars with 40' K-line containers in the wells. I can confirm the Atlas pins do line up with the holes on the top of the K-line containers. The Atlas containers are very secure and they look amazing.
@prrhorseshoecurve posted:WBB. They just released the K-line version of a front runner.
Speaking to Jack Lynch, the 5 car sets would be too expensive to produce for todays marketplace. Afterall, the "front Runners" are about $80.00 ea!
Weren't front runners single axle trucks?
Spine cars were articulated 3 or 5 packs. This is stand alone.
I recently started an intermodal project that has really added some cool cars to my intermodal fleet. I obtained several K-Line 40’ Thrall and Gunderson cars for this project. Here are a couple pics. The BNSF set was made using the Gunderson cars. I had a machine shop cut the ends off the articulated cars and added some Evergreen plastic to build the ends and undercarriage. Also note the brake system with brass tubing.
the Thrall set was made by removing the ends altogether on all the cars and building correct size platforms for eacH end of car. Altogether I have 3 40’ well Thrall 5-car sets and 3 Gunderson sets using the 40’ wells. I had custom decals made for TTX in their new logo design for some of these sets. More pics to follow.
I also have several stand alone 40’ well cars in both Thrall and Gunderson. 
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I recently got a set of K-Line 3 car TTAX Spline set without containers. So my question is what containers will work on it? My Lionel and MTH containers will not fit, they have posts on the containers, while the K-Line cars have posts on the car. I haven't had any luck looking for containers on the auction site. What should I be looking for?
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@Jeff78rr posted:I recently started an intermodal project that has really added some cool cars to my intermodal fleet. I obtained several K-Line 40’ Thrall and Gunderson cars for this project. Here are a couple pics. The BNSF set was made using the Gunderson cars. I had a machine shop cut the ends off the articulated cars and added some Evergreen plastic to build the ends and undercarriage. Also note the brake system with brass tubing.
the Thrall set was made by removing the ends altogether on all the cars and building correct size platforms for eacH end of car. Altogether I have 3 40’ well Thrall 5-car sets and 3 Gunderson sets using the 40’ wells. I had custom decals made for TTX in their new logo design for some of these sets. More pics to follow.
I also have several stand alone 40’ well cars in both Thrall and Gunderson.
Jeff,
Beautiful work on those. To accurately model intermodal, especially stack trains, one needs articulated well cars. It's too bad we don't have more options. I have several Atlas 53 foot sets, though those are too new for my primary focus, which is Santa Fe operations. (I periodically "update" everything timewise to contemporary BNSF and UP and that's when those cars come out...). I have one of the two-car K-Line set and have toyed with trying to find another one or two to make a three or five car set. I think you've inspired me to follow through. Another option I've mulled is buying one of the MTH twin-stack sets and cutting off the "bulkhead" parts on the car ends to model later Gunderson 40 foot well cars.
But your cars look great. Do you run DPUs and do the two-rail wheelsets handle that OK?
RM
Hi Rich, and thank you for the comments! I do run DPUs on this train, and the 2R trucks work perfectly. I like the 2R trucks as they allow the car to sit lower, as I can mount the truck closer to the bottom of the cars. My entire intermodal fleet is 2R truck-equipped as it looks so cool like this. I would definitely recommend getting some K-Line cars to articulate. However, in my opinion, the parts supplied from K-Line to do this make the cars so far apart it looks very unrealistic. Plus the car sit so high using their parts. I've got these cars sitting as low as the Atlas O Gunderson cars.
@sinclair posted:I recently got a set of K-Line 3 car TTAX Spline set without containers. So my question is what containers will work on it? My Lionel and MTH containers will not fit, they have posts on the containers, while the K-Line cars have posts on the car. I haven't had any luck looking for containers on the auction site. What should I be looking for?
I think you're pretty much limited to K Line containers unless you're willing to improvise. No other brand I know of is going to fit. (See for example my post above comparing Atlas and K Line mounting holes). If you're willing to cut the tabs off the bottom of the MTH containers, you might be able to drill mounting holes large enough for them to mount on the K Line cars. I'd make a cardboard template and use a pin vise. Going the other way, I suppose you could trim the K Line tabs off the cars flush with the mounting surface, drill holes and glue Atlas mounting pins to the K Line car. Again I'd make a template if I was doing this.
RM
@sinclair posted:I recently got a set of K-Line 3 car TTAX Spline set without containers. So my question is what containers will work on it? My Lionel and MTH containers will not fit, they have posts on the containers, while the K-Line cars have posts on the car. I haven't had any luck looking for containers on the auction site. What should I be looking for?
Try searching for "MDK containers" on the auction site. There are a few available right now.
Happy Hunting
