These will probably never be made in O scale, just curious how many people are interested in these cars or if anyone has made their own. I saw a bilevel scale auto rack someone made from brass and really liked it I don't know who made it though.
http://swrails.com/2012/08/02/vintage-auto-racks/
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MTH and Lionel can put a open-frame rack on their flat car for the auto rack. The Trailer Train TTRX Flat Car is the same design and it could accommodate the open-frame rack.
Andrew
Atlas did make the 89 foot flatcars that will hold two of their 45 foot trailers.
Scale open racks would be neat, but I don't know if there is enough demand for anyone to make them.
Jim
I don't think MTH has a flat longer than 60 feet. Atlas' 89-foot flat, on the other hand, is a perfect platform to make an AutoRack.
The MTH shortened Auto Carrier Flat Car would be fine for the last open-frame auto carriers of the late 1960's and early 1970's.
For the Open-Frame auto carriers of the 1950's to the middle 1960's, an all new Pullman-Standard flat car model would have to be produced.
Andrew
The Bi-Level open-frame auto carrier can be injection molded or 3D printed in these basic sections.
Flat Car
Bottom Deck
Left Side
Right Side
Second Level Deck
Sign Plate
grab irons
Brake Wheel and stanchion.
The brake equipment
Why has Weaver Models not produced a PLASTIC model of these auto carriers from the 1950's and 1960's?
Andrew
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