I recently acquired the 3-car Railking Husky stacks with BNSF cars and BNSF containers (complete fantasy schemes of course). I got the idea from one of Jeff Sohn’s Maxi-III creations to try to turn these into a Railking/Nonscale/Nonproportioned Maxi-IV set. The idea here is just to rub off a few decals and place new ones over them to avoid repainting anything. I cut the ends of the cars to articulate them and changed to containers to 53ft markings in SWIFT livery. I just sanded off the decals with 320 grit paper and put on $1-per-sheet laser printer decals I made in powerpoint.
Here’s the cars before modification
Here’s the prototype.
Here are the results.
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And an action video.
I don’t have any non-scale locos to run with this. My MTH scale locos are all too big, but I bet this would look good with that 14” long BNSF dash9 from Lionel a few years back.
This project doesn’t really fit with my scale stuff, I just did it for fun and to see if it could be done. It was only a fraction of the work of my other articulated sets I’ve shown, so I consider it a small project. Since it’s a non-scale, traditional project, I omitted several other things I could have done to make it more prototypical like lowering the ride height and installing compressors on each end. Not worth it for a Rail King set
