Rolling Stock Monday

@CAPPilot posted:

Six Dome Ambrose Wine Co.  First picture is what it looked like out of the box, the second with Atlas trucks.

CAPPilot  Ron, I also have a 3rd Rail 6-dome tank car lettered for Roma Wine, and like yours, mine also had a smashed truck when I removed it from the box. Yours looks great with the new Atlas trucks. Can you please tell me the number of the trucks you used and is it a simple replacement? Mine is special to me because my late wife's name was Roma.  Thank you.

@Jerry Williams posted:

CAPPilot  Ron, I also have a 3rd Rail 6-dome tank car lettered for Roma Wine, and like yours, mine also had a smashed truck when I removed it from the box. Yours looks great with the new Atlas trucks. Can you please tell me the number of the trucks you used and is it a simple replacement? Mine is special to me because my late wife's name was Roma.  Thank you.

I looked up the car in my database and it is actually a Sunset product.  Bought used 9/2016.  All I have in the database is Atlas trucks, $25, so I can't provide much help.  I don't remember it being a problem to replace them.  Here is a better photo of the truck.  Hope it helps.

CAPPilot  Thank you so much Ron.  I'm thinking the Atlas 66032 will work.

Welcome to the Christmas Edition of Rolling Stock Monday 12/23/24! A Blessed Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to everyone! A few simple rules. This thread is for all rolling stock with the exception of Boxcars and Beer Reefers. Please follow the forum TOS when posting.
Here are my MTH Nativity flat cars.

This one seems appropriate for the time

- walt

Well the world (except for the children) has been quite naughty this year, so Santa has a lot of coal to give out!  His sleigh just can't handle the load so he has rigged up 3 gondola (AF calls them "sand") cars to help carry the load.  So under contract to Santa, we get a year's supply of candy canes,  the Leonardtown and Savannah has lined up 3 sand cars to be carried out to the North Pole for tomorrow night.

First is the lithographed AF 311131 Sand Car from 1936-1937.

Next is the AF 1116 PRR Sand Car from 1919-1929 (8 wheel version) in yellow.

Finally the AF 1116 PRR Sand Car (4 wheel version) from 1932-1937 in green.   Note the 4 wheel was actually cataloged as the 1113 car, but Flyer used the bodies of 8 wheel and 4 wheel interchangeably and most of the cars came with 1116 labeled bodies.

So with this set of trailing cars to hold his coal load, Santa is set for Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Don

Here is a Weaver PS2 cement hopper in Burlington Route livery. Growing up by the tracks, there was a siding that went into the culvert plant. Once a week they would drop off 15 to 20 of these filled with concrete for making culverts. In the early 80's they switched to truck delivery and removed the spur. I have 10 or 15 of these which makes a nice train and brings back fond memories.