Rolling Stock Monday

For this week, a colorful DuPont Tank Car made by Weaver.

Sitka - thanks for stepping in for Bob today.

Today I'm showing a N&W 50 ton open hopper with coal load.  This is a Weaver car I weathered  several years ago.  

This is an Atlas O bulkhead flat car with pulpwood load.  

I don't know if this is considered as "rolling stock", but it rolls!

- walt

Here’s my SP gondolas (MTH) with junk loads that I weathered a while ago.

Gene

Well I know from reading some other threads that a few folks are in the process or have already done it of making an airport on their layout.  Well American Flyer (Chicago flyer) in 1934-1935 anticipated that need and produced the "Air Service" tank car to deliver fuel (high octane gasoline in those days) to all those new airports.  So here for this weeks RSM is my American Flyer, 1 Dome, Air Service Tanker.

Well

Best Wishes everyone!

Don

@trumpettrain posted:

Sitka - thanks for stepping in for Bob today.

Today I'm showing a N&W 50 ton open hopper with coal load.  This is a Weaver car I weathered  several years ago.  

This is an Atlas O bulkhead flat car with pulpwood load.  

Thanks trumpettrain when duty calls you just have to step on up and get the job done Thanks for posting all on Rolling Stock Monday!

I bought two of the Menards flatcars with jeeps because the original design that the Army approved for the Jeep was made right here in Butler, Pennsylvania by the Bantam Car Company.  About 2600 were built by Bantam, but the bulk of them for WWII were built by Willys Overland and Ford.

It’s Monday here in middle Tennessee, sunny but chilly, so I started to check out this neat topic. I suppose this topic allows most any freight cars we are pulling behind our road engines… Happy Railroading Everyone

It's Monday, It’s time for Rolling Stock Monday 3/24/25. Let’s see all your Rolling Stock other than boxcars and beer reefers. Please post within the forum guidelines in the TOS.

Before I post my rolling stock today; I want to thank Mark @Sitka for starting the thread last week.

My post today is hoppers. Here are hoppers at the riverside coal loader waiting to be filled. It a labor intensive operation because the loading track is not a through track. In the background you can see loaded cars on the ready track waiting to leave town.

Thanks for getting us rolling Bob!   Here is a Kennecott Copper gondola by K line.

Here are a few coal hoppers from my Lawn-guy-lind roster. If I recall correctly, the first two were a Lionel special run from the good folks at the NLOE (love the LIRR Keystone logo!!!) and the last two were a special MTH run done by forum sponsor Nassau Hobby.

Here is a Rock Island flat with pup trailers I got from Berwyn's Trains.

Here are 2 K-Line cars from my daughter’s Girls set.

Thanks Bob, anytime you need a fill in would be glad to help God Speed! Lionel GP-9 Lehigh Valley pulling a string of PW Lionel Lehigh Valley hoppers.

Something a little different today.  On one of my Christmas layouts I created a "dinosaur park".  So I needed a way to transport the creatures, including some pre-historic snakes.  So I created these 2 cars to do that.

- walt

A MTH Premier with some old weathered parts and deadman blocks. The wood box houses the battery and switch for the ETD.

Gene

Rolling on with the Premier pulling the load ...........

..........followed by :   Premier Pennsy covered coil car                                           Premier Pennsy covered  gondola                                         1949 Lionel  NYC  loaded gondola                                            Premier Pennsy scrap gondola                                                Lionel BN scrap gondola                             ......and finally   Lionel Pennsy scrap gondola

Have a great Rolling Stock  Monday all.

I'm partial to this MTH tank car.  It is reminiscent of the days when Wolf's Head, Quaker State, and Pennzoil were all three located in Oil City, Pennsylvania.

Its 1963 and the uncatalogued sets that were NOT assembled by Lionel to be sold by major retailers like Sears, Montgomery Ward, Spiegel, J.C.Penney or Firestone were termed "General Retailer" sets. These sets often differed from catalogued sets by the substitution of one different car.   One of these General Retailer uncatalogued sets was set # 19263 which is often termed the Libby Set.  It contained the #6050 Libby's Tomato Juice 0-27 type boxcar and the  #6475 Libby's Crushed Pineapple Vat car.  It also included a #6076  plain grey / black rubber stamped ATSF hopper car and a #6167 plain yellow rubber stamped UP (SP type) caboose.   This set was pulled by a plastic #1062 locomotive and a "Southern Pacific" tender.  Interestingly while the Libby's cars are uncommon and collectable but the SP # 1060T Tender is very uncommon and quite collectable.  The locomotive was rather widely used.

Evidently the set failed to meet sales expectations as each item is a known component in another set.  The UP caboose however had an unusually  long run, it first appeared in this set in 1963 and then was finally depleted in 1969 as part of a catalogued set.

So here today on R.S.M. we have the #6475 Libby's Crushed Pineapple Vat Car from 1963:

Here is a close up of the Vat's showing the labeling.  The car itself came in 4 variations but these were mostly in smaller details.  The cars were either light blue (as this one is) or aqua and the trucks were either arch bar or  AAR .  The Vat's were unchanged.  Surprisingly 3 of the 4 variations came with only "dummy" couplers (as this one does) while the 4th variation had disc couplers.

Best Wishes

Don