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.

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.