Well, thanks Bob and Don for expanding our horizons!!! Here’s the biggest piece of rolling stock on my roster - a NYC Schnabel car.

@Apples55 posted:

Well, thanks Bob and Don for expanding our horizons!!! Here’s the biggest piece of rolling stock on my roster - a NYC Schnabel car.

Paul, is that able to get around your layout? I’ve got the Lionel machinery car. It was an add on to the machine shop that I don’t have. The car doesn’t clear the bridges! 😡

Thanks Bob (& Don), this gives a greater opportunity to share our other rolling stock with the exception of the 2 you mentioned.

I would like to share my 2 Lionel bulkhead flat cars that I customized with a wood deck and JD tractors. I also added an EDT. The battery harness is in the box along with a switch.

Gene

An older Lionel car

- walt

Well to "celebrate" our new thread here is a British Petroleum (BP) trailer on flat car (TOFC) by Lionel, car #6429

Happy "Rolling Stock Monday"  everyone!!!

Don

@pennsyfan posted:

Paul, is that able to get around your layout? I’ve got the Lionel machinery car. It was an add on to the machine shop that I don’t have. The car doesn’t clear the bridges! 😡

The answer is yes and no, Bob. I only have one bridge on my layout…

With the bridge up, anything can fit under it. With it down, pantographs have conniptions (don’t ask how I know). However, crossing it is problematic for tall cars (I can’t run double stacked intermodals for example). When I was planning my layout, @leapinlarry was kind enough to point out the height limitations of the lift section, but I just had to use the bridge because it reminds me so much of the Gil Hodges  Memorial Bridge!!!

@Apples55 posted:

The answer is yes and no, Bob. I only have one bridge on my layout…

With the bridge up, anything can fit under it. With it down, pantographs have conniptions (don’t ask how I know). However, crossing it is problematic for tall cars (I can’t run double stacked intermodals for example). When I was planning my layout, @leapinlarry was kind enough to point out the height limitations of the lift section, but I just had to use the bridge because it reminds me so much of the Gil Hodges  Memorial Bridge!!!

Oh, I know it well. When I was a kid it was 10 cents to cross. I was drawn to the RR. Bridge application. Sometimes when traffic was really bad in NJ I would take truck 1&9 and that was right next to the bridge.

Okay, I'll jump in!  About the time I was finishing high school, these showed up on the B&O near my home.  Of course some had B&O and some had C&O on them instead of WM.  I thought that was a nice touch Chessie System did.  Perhaps an early heritage scheme.

The Lionel Center Span Lift Bridge is modeled after the Park Avenue Railroad Bridge in NYC, currently in use by Metro North. The Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge is quite similar, and, when built in 1937, was the longest center span lift bridge in the world. It’s now $2.60, each way, for non Rockaway residents to cross.

Track cleaning car, unknown manufacturer. I've never used it but like the way it looks.

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Track cleaning car, unknown manufacturer. I've never used it but like the way it looks.

Dave, it came from Northeast Trains out of Peabody, MA. I have one that I kit bashed a Labelle boxcar and made it removable to access the screws. It does a fine job at light maintenance.

Gene

It’s Rolling Stock Monday 12/9/24.
It’s about all rolling stock with the exception of Boxcars since they are extremely well covered on BOXCAR SUNDAY(with 200 plus pages, Dave is doing a great job.) and Beer Rolling Stock.I only became aware of the Beer Rolling stock thread recently. So let’s see your auto loaders, boat loaders, cabeese, cranes and crane tenders, flat cars, gondolas, hoppers, industry specific, MOW, ore cars, food reefers, tank cars, vat cars, well cars,stock cars, etc. Please follow the forum’s TOS.

Today I have a caboose that I have been looking for, for a very long time. It’s a common 9272 New Haven Bay Window caboose but it has a distinctive marking; the METCA logo embossed in Silver. The caboose came in a crisp original box and is absolutely Mint.

For this week I'll go with an MTH Wabash flat car that I weathered. Excuse the dust mess, layout in progress.

This is a Lionel NH flat car that I used for an open air passenger car. I added an additional wood plank deck, bench kits and hand built the deck rails.

Gene

@Genemed posted:

This is a Lionel NH flat car that I used for an open air passenger car. I added an additional wood plank deck, bench kits and hand built the deck rails.

Gene

Nice, I've seen similar in little excursion trains at museums.

@Genemed - I like yours so much better than mine.  But I guess I like them both for what they are.

- walt

Living in Brooklyn all through grade school and high school, when it came to grocery shopping, we’d have to walk a couple of blocks to the store. If we walked to Flatbush Avenue, we had a choice of two A&P’s - these are two new Lionel reefers I just picked up from Grzyboski’s…

If we walked the opposite direction to Nostrand Avenue, there was an old Bohack market, and thanks to the NJ HiRailers, I have a nice set of reefers to remember those days.

The very first supermarket I remember visiting when I was VERY young was a one of the original Waldbaums on Coney Island Avenue… thanks to @MELGAR, I am still on the hunt for one more reefer!!!

Thanks @walt rapp @Dave Ripp. it was quite a task to make the railings and posts and have it removable.

Gene

@Apples55 - Paul, I grew up in New Jersey (Bloomfield) and can remember from about age 4 my Mom taking me with her to the A&P which was within walking distance. I have never connected with an A&P  boxcar so I am still on the lookout.  We didn't have a "Bohack's"  or a "Waldbaums" (at least as it plays in my 4 year old memory).

Well today friends, I have decided to celebrate what is perhaps one of  the most humble of our rolling stock, the "GONDOLA".  While today, many of us have long 50 ft or 60 ft gondolas and we need to remember that when Lionel pioneered the use of molded plastics in the early pw (WW II) period it was a gondola that was used as the lead car. However, as I often do, I am going back earlier than that.  

Remember that for the most part, at least in the early part of the century, toy trains were the provenance of children.  Oh yes we had some really great detail scale hobbyists but for the most part it was children, primarily boys, who the products from the main manufacturers were aimed.  So why was the gondola often included in every new set?  Because a gondola represented a great opportunity for PLAY.  It could give things a "ride", it could transport toy soldiers, it could move rocks or sand, it could carry anything that child wished to have go on the train.  That was a huge expansion of the play value of a set (or outfit as Lionel called them) .  So here are some early gondolas'

Well here is the "old guard", the Lionel, "Lake Shore" gondola from 1924 although it was available earlier in a lighter grey and even a pale red.  She carries  the Lionel "Corp" stamp on her bottom and is just 4 wheels.  Think about how many toy soldiers she could carry ..."to the front" ... during the post war days of WW I.

Now, time moves on and we are getting more robust with the availability of an 8 wheel car with trucks and journal boxes.  It was however 1935 and the US, indeed the world, was in the grips of the Great Depression.  Families could not afford Lionel's beautiful hand painted enamel cars (although Lionel Cowen loved them ) and so to keep the Company solvent, cheaper products had to be found.  One solution was lithography.  Cowen never really liked it, thought it looked cheap compared to his "beautiful" enameled offerings, BUT it allowed the visual inclusion of great detail with very modest expense.  So he allowed the development of two series of lithographed freight cars around 1935,  the 16XX cars at 7 1/2 " and the 17XX cars at 9 1/2" . Interestingly the 16XX cars became the first to be identified as "0-27" after the designation of "Lionel Jr." was dropped in 1937.

So here is the Lionel Lines # 1677 gondola of 1935 ready to move out and carry whatever that young engineer wanted as cargo in his imaginary RR empire.  Indeed, this one below, has had a rough life, perhaps carrying sand and rocks vice toy soldiers, but these cars are not so easy to find.  Their cheap price made them "expendable" in compared with Lionel's other (and much more expensive) freight car lines so they tended to be played with hard and then Mom threw them away (OH NO!).

Well Happy Rolling Stock Monday everyone.  Best wishes for a great Holiday season

Best Regards, Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@Apples55 - Paul, I grew up in New Jersey (Bloomfield) and can remember from about age 4 my Mom taking me with her to the A&P which was within walking distance. I have never connected with an A&P  boxcar so I am still on the lookout.  We didn't have a "Bohack's"  or a "Waldbaums" (at least as it plays in my 4 year old memory).

Well today friends, I have decided to celebrate what is perhaps one of  the most humble of our rolling stock, the "GONDOLA".  While today, many of us have long 50 ft or 60 ft gondolas and we need to remember that when Lionel pioneered the use of molded plastics in the early pw (WW II) period it was a gondola that was used as the lead car. However, as I often do, I am going back earlier than that. 

Remember that for the most part, at least in the early part of the century, toy trains were the provenance of children.  Oh yes we had some really great detail scale hobbyists but for the most part it was children, primarily boys, who the products from the main manufacturers were aimed.  So why was the gondola often included in every new set?  Because a gondola represented a great opportunity for PLAY.  It could give things a "ride", it could transport toy soldiers, it could move rocks or sand, it could carry anything that child wished to have go on the train.  That was a huge expansion of the play value of a set (or outfit as Lionel called them) .  So here are some early gondolas'

Well here is the "old guard", the Lionel, "Lake Shore" gondola from 1924 although it was available earlier in a lighter grey and even a pale red.  She carries  the Lionel "Corp" stamp on her bottom and is just 4 wheels.  Think about how many toy soldiers she could carry ..."to the front" ... during the post war days of WW I.

Now, time moves on and we are getting more robust with the availability of an 8 wheel car with trucks and journal boxes.  It was however 1935 and the US, indeed the world, was in the grips of the Great Depression.  Families could not afford Lionel's beautiful hand painted enamel cars (although Lionel Cowen loved them ) and so to keep the Company solvent, cheaper products had to be found.  One solution was lithography.  Cowen never really liked it, thought it looked cheap compared to his "beautiful" enameled offerings, BUT it allowed the visual inclusion of great detail with very modest expense.  So he allowed the development of two series of lithographed freight cars around 1935,  the 16XX cars at 7 1/2 " and the 17XX cars at 9 1/2" . Interestingly the 16XX cars became the first to be identified as "0-27" after the designation of "Lionel Jr." was dropped in 1937.

So here is the Lionel Lines # 1677 gondola of 1935 ready to move out and carry whatever that young engineer wanted as cargo in his imaginary RR empire.  Indeed, this one below, has had a rough life, perhaps carrying sand and rocks vice toy soldiers, but these cars are not so easy to find.  Their cheap price made them "expendable" in compared with Lionel's other (and much more expensive) freight car lines so they tended to be played with hard and then Mom threw them away (OH NO!).

Well Happy Rolling Stock Monday everyone.  Best wishes for a great Holiday season

Best Regards, Don

Very nice post Don; but you missed something. The humble gondola was the very core of Lionel. Josh Cowan developed the motorized gondola so store keepers could attract attention with their goods moving around the window. When customers wanted the gondola more than the product it was promoting; that evolved into Lionel Trains.

Let's see, while not all of them, we have these active photo albums:

Beer Rolling Stock

Boxcar Sunday

STEAMday Sunday

Switcher Saturday

a picture a day

Team Track Tuesday

Freight Trains

Weekend Photo Fun

Front End Friday

Tail End Tuesday

Unusual, unique, and rare

Western Road Wednesday

Pennsylvania RR

Passenger Trains

Picture of the Day

F3 for Fridays

Now we have Rolling Stock Monday which was Reefer Monday (changed because some folks were running out of reefers).

So looking for cars that do not fit into the above categories, here are my rolling stock for today.  Two 3rd Rail models.

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

Chlorine Tank Car

PS.  I think reefers are still good under this topic.

@CAPPilot posted:

So looking for cars that do not fit into the above categories, here are my rolling stock for today.  Two 3rd Rail models.

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

Ron;

Looks like the engineer and conductor have been sampling the wares   That is definitely an unusual tank car - I don’t think I’ve ever seen a six dome car. Thanks for sharing.

Ron ,

You have to unique cars there. I wasn’t aware that chlorine was shipped that way  As to your comment about reefers; yes this is the place for non beer reefers.

@Don McErlean posted:

@Apples55 - Paul, I grew up in New Jersey (Bloomfield) and can remember from about age 4 my Mom taking me with her to the A&P which was within walking distance. I have never connected with an A&P  boxcar so I am still on the lookout.  We didn't have a "Bohack's"  or a "Waldbaums" (at least as it plays in my 4 year old memory).

Well Happy Rolling Stock Monday everyone.  Best wishes for a great Holiday season

Best Regards, Don

We didn’t have a car until I was in college, so we either walked or took NYC subways or buses. That really was a simpler time. I think, in those days, both Bohack and Waldbaums were pretty much limited to the city and Long Island. If you like the A&P reefers I posted, they were recently released and several of our fine forum sponsors show them in stock.

Since Don broached the subject of gondolas… here’s a few covered versions from my roster.

@pennsyfan- You are so right Bob, I did miss that "first" gondola, made of wood and with just a circle of track, designed to just carry "something" for sale in a shop window.  Of course I do not have any sample of that car or anything even close to it.  Any of Lionel's  2 7/8" gauge trains from his earliest era command such high prices I would have to sell my car to just even bid on them .  Wish I could have posted one of those.  Best Wishes and thanks for the comment.

Don

@Apples55 - Paul, thanks for all the comments and posting some really neat pictures of covered gondolas.   I liked your comment about the family not having a car.  We did have a car because my father and grandfather (we lived in a 2 family house with my grandparents)both went to work in directions not covered by public transportation, even though my father only drove to the RR station and then took a train.

However we had both buses and trolley cars as I was growning up, although the trolley's went away before I was 10 so we would go to the stores on those as well.

Great swapping tales with you, Best Wishes

Don

It’s Rolling Stock Monday 12/16/24
It’s about all rolling stock with the exception of Boxcars since they are extremely well covered on BOXCAR SUNDAY(with 200 plus pages, Dave is doing a great job.) and Beer Rolling Stock.I only became aware of the Beer Rolling stock thread recently. So let’s see your auto loaders, boat loaders, cabeese, cranes and crane tenders, flat cars, gondolas, hoppers, industry specific, MOW, ore cars, food reefers, tank cars, vat cars, well cars,stock cars, etc. Please follow the forum’s TOS.

For this Monday I have 2 rolling stock items recently acquired by the Farmingdale Traction Company. The tank car and work caboose were previously owned; but the paint shop quickly applied the FTC lettering.

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That caboose brings back memories from my first train set from the early 60’s, Bob - mine was a Santa Fe version of that work caboose which is still one of my favorites.

@Apples55 posted:

That caboose brings back memories from my first train set from the early 60’s, Bob - mine was a Santa Fe version of that work caboose which is still one of my favorites.

Paul, I’m happy to stir it up for you. 😎

my not-so-perfect version of a cattle car.

- walt

Well following @pennsyfan and @Apples55 here are a couple of my work cabooses, the Lionel C&O #6219 from 1960 and the Lionel D.L.&W # 6419 from 1948-1950 and 1952-1955.

Then going to school on @walt rapp had to have one of my cattle cars.  This one from Marx...Hey Marx is the "low end" right, so with Marx you get ONE cow...that's it!!

Best Wishes for a happy RSM everyone ...

Don

@CAPPilot posted:

...snip... Chlorine Tank Car

I have two of those;  one Halogen Chemical and one Jones Chemical. Only one has a load of Cl tanks, though. The tanks are fairly accurate. I used to see them being exchanged at one of the Baltimore water treatment plants; they were using a dedicated flatbed semi-trailer that was equipped the same as the flatcar.

@Apples55 posted:

Ron;

.......That is definitely an unusual tank car - I don’t think I’ve ever seen a six dome car. Thanks for sharing.

I had not seen a six-dome car either and wasn't sure there was a prototype for it.  So I looked it up after I bought it.  This is a car made specifically to haul wine.  There were two styles of 6-dome wine cars, one by General American Tank Car and the other by American Car & Foundry.  This 3rd Rail all brass model is of an AC&F car.

My notes say Ed Hawkins provided this information:  Wine comes in all sorts of types and quality.  Much of what was hauled by rail, was a lower grade product that was bottled in the market area served.  Wine cars came in different configurations ranging from single compartment, two, three, four and six compartment designs.

Here are a couple more pics of my 6-dome:

There are packing sheds galore for the Union Pacific to work in California’s Great Valley.  My scene pictures a local on its way to Crows Landing to drop off reefers for the cantaloupe crop.

Since others are showing their work caboose, here is mine.  However, it is not going to be a caboose for long.  The Pennsy did not have anything like this, so I plan to put a scale single dome tank car body on it and it will be close to a car the Pennsy used for fire fighting.  I will also need to paint it battleship grey to fit into my late 1940's theme (camp car yellow was not used until late 1953). 

MTH

@Apples55 posted:

That caboose brings back memories from my first train set from the early 60’s, Bob - mine was a Santa Fe version of that work caboose which is still one of my favorites.

Paul, I’m liking these work caboose cars. Other than used, has there been a recent production or a possible future preorder that you know of?

Gene

Here is a nice Rock Island made by MTH for Berwyn’s Toys & Trains.

@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.

Welcome to the NEW YEARS EDITION of Rolling Stock Monday.! 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

The New York Boat Show is a few weeks away. Here are some boats making their way to the show. Given the size of the boats on the Boat Loader; I think that they may be heading to a kiddie amusement park.

A couple of gondolas (a special run from the good folks at the NJ HiRailers)… love the cars, wish the loads were painted more realistically.

And a center-beam flat (a special run from the NLOE) with a fortune in dimensional lumber!!!

an MTH one:

- walt

What is a party without ice cream!  As we get ready for New Year's Eve, here is a tank car full of goodness headed to the factory to be turned into Ice Cream...

Happy New Year Everyone

Don

Well, @Don McErlean started it and one tanker ain’t makin’ near enough ice cream There are actually two of the butterdish milk cars, but I can’t find a pic of both…

And there are two of the tankers…

If I remember correctly, all four cars were done by the fine folks at the TCA.

Here is a nice looking K-Line tank car.  Not bad detail for an inexpensive car.  Lettering says it was built in 1992, and I bought it in 1996 at Tom's Trains in Fresno, CA, for $29.  Tom's is long gone.

Here is a nice Santa Fe covered hopper made by MTH.

Welcome to the  1/06/2025 edition of Rolling Stock Monday. Here are a few tank cars that I have on the layout. The K-Line, Hooker Chemicals and Rolling Bearing cars are 2 examples of my favorite tanks.

Since Bob started off 2025 with tanks… if I remember correctly, the last 2 are MPC era cars.

An MTH product

- walt

Threw this together for grandson's enjoyment of the Christmas tree layout.

Well following Bob and Paul , here is a #3018 American Flyer tank car from 1930-1931  so some 95 years old.  This one, while not perfect, came to my collection for the incredible price of $1.25 on E-Bay.  At that price I was willing to overlook a few cosmetic faults.  She has no missing parts and still rolls in my consists with no trouble including having both functional couplers.  By the way the A.F.L. lettering on the grey tank with no "oil company" labels or livery is exactly the way she came from American Flyer in 1930.  At first (at that price) I thought she might have been "redecorated" by  a user after she was new but I eventually found pictures of her in her original state and this is exactly how she was made...including the periods between the letters...cool huh?

Take a look at the attention to detail that Flyer provided in that era.  Separately provided and somewhat complex hand rails and the "brass" tank straps holding the tank to the frame.  The trucks have sheet metal side frames and "brass" journal boxes.   The lettering is simple but the construction is quite complex.  No question that there was a lot of hand assembly work in putting this car together.

Paul / Bob despite my sometimes pre-ocupation with the "old stuff", I consider myself a "tank-a-holic" and have many tank cars in my collection but none like you just showed.  I really liked the pictures of your tank cars.  Thanks for posting.

Well I hope you enjoyed this "tiny" piece of the history of our hobby.  I can tell you she is  closer to her original shape at 95 than I am to mine at 80 !  Best wishes to everyone, Happy New Year again...

Don

A pair of American Flyer 3012 butterdish milk tank cars.  One with 2800 series trucks to go with my 800/2800 series consist.  The other with postwar trucks and lettering that represents the preserved Borden's car 520 at the Illinois Railway Museum.

I just bought this neat N scale reefer for my little dabble in N scale for variety.

MTH flatcars with K-Line loads.

It’s Rolling Stock Monday 1/13/25! Starting a little early. Please follow the Forum TOS when posting. Let’s see your rolling stock! Excluding Boxcars and Beer Reefers. Here are two vat cars. 1 Lionel and 1 K-Line. The structure of the cars appear to be the same. Interestingly the Lionel roof hatches are simulated while the K-Line hatches open. The K-Line car is carrying KEOKUK Tomato products and pickles. The Lionel car is carrying Dole crushed pineapple.

Here are AC&W METCA CARS. Can't wit for the next 2 to arrive.

an MTH one.  I especially wanted this one for multiple reasons: both of my parents worked at Westinghouse back when; I have the Miller animated Westinghouse sign; it's Pittsburgh related.

walt

@Dave Ripp. posted:

MTH flatcars with K-Line loads.

I grew up in Cleveland and "Reddy Kilowat" was a part of my childhood. I remember having one that would 'glow in the dark'

Can’t find my one and only vat car, so this will have to do…

Freddy Kilowatt, the days of innocence and great times for us kids born in the 50s... We sure have progressed....

@Apples55 posted:

Can’t find my one and only vat car, so this will have to do…

Paul,

1- You don’t have to follow on this thread.

2- They are great cars, who made them? I’d love to get a set for my son. He worked for MAERSK about 25 years ago. I got the first set for him Engine and deep well cars.
I took a picture of the 1:1 scale that SF made for MAERSK. They made 1 other engine for another company and then shut down the program.

@ToledoEd posted:

I grew up in Cleveland and "Reddy Kilowat" was a part of my childhood. I remember having one that would 'glow in the dark'

Youngstown here. I wish I could find a recording of the song… “flip a switch, we’ll be there, every minute…” Really catchy tune.

Well I don't have any Vat cars handy so following Paul's lead, this will have to do !  This is an American Flyer "Container Car" from the early 1930's  Note that this is car is a single piece, the "container's" are merely a figment of American Flyer's imagination and some clever lithography.   I love Flyer though, just in case you didn't recognize what kind of car this is...they printed "Container Car" on the livery on the side! 

Best Wishes to you all on the last Monday of my Holiday Vacation.  Next RSM I will be back at work !

Don

@pennsyfan posted:

Paul,

1- You don’t have to follow on this thread.

2- They are great cars, who made them? I’d love to get a set for my son. He worked for MAERSK about 25 years ago. I got the first set for him Engine and deep well cars.
I took a picture of the 1:1 scale that SF made for MAERSK. They made 1 other engine for another company and then shut down the program.

Bob;

Following is fun

They are definitely different cars and I love them. The cars are MTH Premier - 20-95290. There are 2 different car numbers under the one item number: 97524 and 97529. They are from 2018. I picked them up from Mr. Muffins when they first came out.

@Apples55 posted:

Bob;

Following is fun

They are definitely different cars and I love them. The cars are MTH Premier - 20-95290. There are 2 different car numbers under the one item number: 97524 and 97529. They are from 2018. I picked them up from Mr. Muffins when they first came out.

Thanks Paul,

Bradys had one of the numbers so I took it.
I think that will make a nice BD present.

@pennsyfan - Hey Bob, can't help commenting.  My son, also worked for Maersk on their Navy Contract Ships where Maersk had the operating contract.  He left in 2007 worked out of a hiring hall on Guam and lived in the Philippines.

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@pennsyfan - Hey Bob, can't help commenting.  My son, also worked for Maersk on their Navy Contract Ships where Maersk had the operating contract.  He left in 2007 worked out of a hiring hall on Guam and lived in the Philippines.

Don

Small world Don, Keith was in NJ; responsible for knowing where a container was at all times. On our last trip to YORK he picked up a set of Sealand containers and deep well cars to add to his set.

Here's some rolling stock found on the Free State Junction Railway.

Here's my contribution, a track cleaning car.

@trumpettrain posted:

Here's some rolling stock found on the Free State Junction Railway.

Great scenes Patrick!

Here’s a car a former coworker gave me for a retirement gift a few years back.  He knew I had worked for the power company before I went to the telecom company, he also knew Western Maryland is my favorite road.  He is an N scaler, and I keep in touch via Facebook.  I also see him at train shows.

@Mark Boyce posted:

Here’s a car a former coworker gave me for a retirement gift a few years back.  He knew I had worked for the power company before I went to the telecom company, he also knew Western Maryland is my favorite road.  He is an N scaler, and I keep in touch via Facebook.  I also see him at train shows.

Mark, I just sent an email about Weaver cars.

It’s Rolling Stock Monday 1/20/25.. Please follow the Forum TOS when posting. Let’s see your rolling stock! Excluding Boxcars and Beer Reefers.

First I want to thank Paul for providing the information to me so I could find this car.
It’s the MTH 20-95290  MAERSK container car.  I was only able to find 1 of the 2 numbers.

I bought this for my Son. I don’t have or run container trains or MAXI stacks. The only containers I have are these 3 because they have the flag.


I run the LIONEL TOF cars.

Let’s see your rolling stock!

Glad to help, Bob.

Now I could just follow your lead…

But, since we have been reminiscing about the old stomping grounds recently, here’s two special run cars from TrainWorld a couple of years ago. There were a few other choices, but the voices just called to me about these two (in fluent Brooklynese I might add)!!!

Remember this one?

- walt

Following the leader today.  Both Lionel, 1 special run & 1 repurposed.

A MTH premier gondola that I removed the girder load and added weathered old trucks and axels, deadman blocks and a ETD.

Gene

Well it seems to be TOFC day on RSM so I guess I will follow suit.  This is my  only TOFC car for reasons I don't know and can't explain, but here she is!!  Its a Lionel #6424 car which is not listed in my "modern" listing of Lionel Rolling  stock.  So I can't give you a date when it was mfrd.

Best Wishes for a cold, dreary, "almost" snow Monday in Central Texas

Don

LCCA UNION PACIFIC HOPPER.

Here is an old kit-built livestock car shelf queen. It's 90 scale feet and won't navigate my 054 curves. I actually didn't buy for a runner it was a good price and interesting.

@pennsyfan posted:

Great scenes Patrick!

THanks Bob!

Thanks for starting us off Bob!  

Here's a trio of rolling stock for this RSM!  

Here a MTH RailKing gondola I weathered and filled with junk.

Dairymen's reefer by Lionel.

Monon custom run boxcar from Mr. Muffin's trains.  Check out the sounds.

@walt rapp posted:

Remember this one?

- walt

Yup!

Peter

@Dave Ripp.- WOW a 90 ft cattle car!  Those cows will loose market weight just walking from one end to the other !  Thanks for posting, never saw one that big before.

@trumpettrain - the sounds on that "hobo" boxcar were great!  Thanks for posting.

Best Wishes

Don

Boston and Maine welding car (I believe this was an uncatalogued production) and a repainted "speedy" boat car from UP livery into a ranger with NH livery (this may also have been an uncatalogued car). The welding torch lights up during operation and the welder figure rotates back and forth.

@Don McErlean posted:

Well it seems to be TOFC day on RSM so I guess I will follow suit.  This is my  only TOFC car for reasons I don't know and can't explain, but here she is!!  Its a Lionel #6424 car which is not listed in my "modern" listing of Lionel Rolling  stock.  So I can't give you a date when it was mfrd.

Best Wishes for a cold, dreary, "almost" snow Monday in Central Texas

Don

Don, The listing that I found for 6424 in PW  was a black car with autos. I did a search and found your car listed by        clicketyclacktoys.com. See below.  It’s listed as 6-26001. When I zoomed in on the photo the road number is 6424. I think the listing was for $67.
Update I just checked GB, it’s listed there at $150. Looks like you have a winner.

LIONEL • O GAUGE • 2001 BP Flatcar w/2 Piggyback Trailers 6-26001 • NEW OLD STOCK

BOB!!  Thank you for the information!  Finding that car had me "bam-boozeled"  My listing, like yours, kept telling me that the 6424 was a black car with auto's and I could not find another variation.  So thank you very much for your research.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

BOB!!  Thank you for the information!  Finding that car had me "bam-boozeled"  My listing, like yours, kept telling me that the 6424 was a black car with auto's and I could not find another variation.  So thank you very much for your research.

Best Wishes

Don

Don Glad to help

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Here is an old kit-built livestock car shelf queen. It's 90 scale feet and won't navigate my 054 curves. I actually didn't buy for a runner it was a good price and interesting.

This is cool.  It is based on the conversion of 86' high cube boxcars into triple level pig cars referred to as a "Big Pig Palace". 

Lionel made the 86' boxcar, and I have a PRR version of it. Shown next to my On3 D&RGW stock car for a fun size comparison. 

Here is a link to the prototype car:  Big Pig Palace

There was also a conversion to double decker versions for cattle referred to as "Big Steer Palace" cars. 

Speaking of long cars, this is a PRR G33 class mill gondola that is 68' long.  I believe it is a U.S. Hobbies one.  All I know it is LONG!  It is mislabeled as a G27 class gondola, but I have decal to fix that.

It’s Rolling Stock Monday 1/27/25. Please follow the Forum TOS when posting. Let’s see your rolling stock! Excluding Boxcars and Beer Reefers.

Here are two K-Line food product reefers.
K-742-8022

K742-8021

Allow me to be the first one in the conga line of followers!!!

First up a pair of MTH milk reefers from a couple of years ago.

And (if I remember correctly) one of several Boars Head offerings from those wonderful folks at METCA…

THE NEXT SUPER BOWL CHAMPS.

Remember these Industrial Rail cars?

= walt

Here is the American Flyer #482 log car.  This is from 1940-1941 and represents the start of the take over of Chicago Flyer by Gilbert.  The A.C.Gilbert Company of New Haven, Ct purchased the American Flyer Manufacturing Company of Chicago in February of 1938.  They began by introducing an entirely new line of trains at a scale of 3/16" to the foot or what is now known as "S" scale.  However up until the end of WWII they retained the O gauge trucks and track.  The Flyer more familiar 2 rail S gauge track did not appear till the post war period.  So this log car is a "mixture" its S scale and size but runs on O gauge track and also has the familiar pw American Flyer "link type" couplers.

The car is 7 5/8" long, came equipped with 6 smooth "logs" made from dowels, and marked with "American Flyer Lines" and "482" large number decals on the logs.  The car was most often seen with this green frame however it is also found with a black frame and very rarely with square timbers vice logs and even marked "483" these last two variations are VERY rare.

Best Wishes on a COLD, DREARY, Monday in Central Texas!!

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Here is the American Flyer #482 log car.  This is from 1940-1941 and represents the start of the take over of Chicago Flyer by Gilbert.  The A.C.Gilbert Company of New Haven, Ct purchased the American Flyer Manufacturing Company of Chicago in February of 1938.  They began by introducing an entirely new line of trains at a scale of 3/16" to the foot or what is now known as "S" scale.  However up until the end of WWII they retained the O gauge trucks and track.  The Flyer more familiar 2 rail S gauge track did not appear till the post war period.  So this log car is a "mixture" its S scale and size but runs on O gauge track and also has the familiar pw American Flyer "link type" couplers.

The car is 7 5/8" long, came equipped with 6 smooth "logs" made from dowels, and marked with "American Flyer Lines" and "482" large number decals on the logs.  The car was most often seen with this green frame however it is also found with a black frame and very rarely with square timbers vice logs and even marked "483" these last two variations are VERY rare.

Best Wishes on a COLD, DREARY, Monday in Central Texas!!

Don

Interesting Don; sort of a reverse ON30 which is o gauge on HO track

@pennsyfan - Good comment Bob, yes I would say you are correct.  The entire Gilbert American Flyer line of "S" scale trains from the time they took over the American Flyer Manufacturing Company of Chicago and moved it all to New Haven, Ct was left as 0 gauge even though the new cars introduced used S scale vice 0 scale.  Flyer used the forced break caused by the cessation of toy production during WWII to design and make ready their S gauge, 2 rail track and the appropriate transformers etc.  They then emerged as the American Flyer we likely both knew from our boyhood.

It is also interesting to note that Marx tried the same approach.  They developed a very handsome S scale all metal lithographed line of freight and passenger cars at around the same time period (late 30's early 40's) and they too were interrupted by the WWII ban on metal toys.  In fact it is said, although it can't be confirmed, that the Marx rather well known #99 all metal locomotive was developed just to pull these freights.  Marx however never changed their trucks, gauge, or track system and continued to offer their "scale" freights in S scale but 0 gauge up until about 1954-55.  It has been said that at that early time many Flyer users switched trucks on the Marx cars and used them on their Flyer layouts.  To this day they are quite handsome.

Best Regards

Don

Here's a Lionel Tractor on a flat car.

It’s Rolling Stock Monday 2/3/25. Please follow the Forum TOS when posting. Let’s see your rolling stock! Excluding Boxcars and Beer Reefers. I have a few more NOS K-Line food reefers to show today. These were acquired when I was able to purchase just the K-Line out of a larger collection.

My parents both worked at and retired from Westinghouse when it was still big in Pittsburgh.  When Miller came out with his Circle W (for westinghouse - a well known sign in the burgh) I got it, made a crude building to hold it, and found these 2 cars that go nicely with it.

That sign is one that I've pretty proud of - he was going to make a version of it but posted on his site that he scrapped the idea for lack of info about it.  I did research and sent it to him and he made the sign - and gave me one to say "thanks".

= walt

Thanks for starting us off Bob!   Here are two flat cars ... one with logs ... and one with tractors.  The flat with logs is by Lionel and was weathered when I bought it at a train show.  The flat with tractors is a MTH model, which is on my " to weather list".  

@walt rapp posted:

My parents both worked at and retired from Westinghouse when it was still big in Pittsburgh.  When Miller came out with his Circle W (for westinghouse - a well known sign in the burgh) I got it, made a crude building to hold it, and found these 2 cars that go nicely with it.

That sign is one that I've pretty proud of - he was going to make a version of it but posted on his site that he scrapped the idea for lack of info about it.  I did research and sent it to him and he made the sign - and gave me one to say "thanks".

= walt

No video?

I remember that sign. The segments lit randomly. I think they said it would take thousands of years for the sequence to repeat. I also remember wandering around the East Pittsburgh works while working on HP computer equipment. What an amazing facility.

Well Bob, I apologize in advance for the condition of today's post.  It is one of my "ancients"!  I discovered this Ives # 65 Cattle car at an auction and just had to have this old gal.  The Ives #65 was first produced in 1910 and came as a 4 wheel or an 8 wheel car up to 1925.  Over those 15 years it came in a bewildering number of variations, my Ives book devotes 2 1/2 full pages of pictures to just the #65 !! This lithographed 8 wheel variation, from the New York Central and Harlem River RR (NYC & HR) sporting the orange/ yellow wood grained lithographing on the ends and open slot sides dates from 1918 to 1925 so it is between 100 and 106 years old.  The cross braces say (although some parts are worn off)  "Live Stock" on the left and "Transportation" on the right side of the door.

I love these old gal's...I admit it.  This one is remarkably complete for her age.  The two couplers are both complete and functioning as are both sets of trucks.  There is no rust on the frame, trucks, or wheels.  Both sides feature an operating door that still slides easily.  I just received this one from the auction and some time this week I intend to "run her" around the layout to celebrate her "Centennial"  trip!

Best Wishes to All.  Happy R.S.M.!!

Don

Lionel Toy Story Animated Gondola # 6-36745

Hopefully, no bird flu ...

Lionel Allis Chalmers. I worked summers in their parts warehouse in high school.

CN gondola on the move.

@pennsyfan posted:

“If it says Libbys, Libbys, Libbys on the label, label, label. You will like it, like it, like it on your table table table”.

Come on, admit it - you sang that

Now, when I was a kid, we had Renken’s milk on our table. Left in the milk box on the stoop early in the morning in glass bottles with those little cardboard stoppers!!! This was a METCA special run from a couple of years ago.

@Apples55 posted:

“If it says Libbys, Libbys, Libbys on the label, label, label. You will like it, like it, like it on your table table table”.

Come on, admit it - you sang that

Now, when I was a kid, we had Renken’s milk on our table. Left in the milk box on the stoop early in the morning in glass bottles with those little cardboard stoppers!!! This was a METCA special run from a couple of years ago.

Renken’s was the dairy of choice when I worked in the Deli during HS. Can’t tell you how many gallons of milk I packed out in those three years. Of course I have one of those cars!

@tnkMarx- That is a great perspective for your picture today.  It is both unusual yet really interesting and shows off the car very well.  Great job!

Don

@tnkMarx posted:

CN gondola on the move.

Great shot!

Fun topic.

I am fortunate to be a new member of a train group here in RI that meets every other week during the winter.

This past week featured, among other things, this home made beauty. He built custom swivels to navigate the curves. Somehow he makes this work.

@pennsyfan posted:

No video?

Of what????  I showed what I wanted for this topic

- walt

@The Tinker = I'm guessing you're a pittsburgher too based on your knowledge.  Yes, I too remember the theory that it would never repeat a pattern.  Thanks for bringing back those memories.  And, BTW, East Pittsburgh is where Mom and Dad worked and met.  Dad worked on the first atomic submarine there.

@Railrunnin- Neat car for sure, but who is the clown in the cow's head?

Don

@walt rapp posted:

Of what????  I showed what I wanted for this topic

- walt

@The Tinker = I'm guessing you're a pittsburgher too based on your knowledge.  Yes, I too remember the theory that it would never repeat a pattern.  Thanks for bringing back those memories.  And, BTW, East Pittsburgh is where Mom and Dad worked and met.  Dad worked on the first atomic submarine there.

Well you showed the sign and mentioned that you had a hand in it. I thought we’d see it lit up. Sorry to upset you.

I like it! To me it looks like a cracking tower for a chemical refinery. Great job scratch building and getting it to navigate curves.

@Don McErlean posted:

@Railrunnin- Neat car for sure, but who is the clown in the cow's head?

Don