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

It's Monday, 3/31/25. It’s time for Rolling Stock Monday Let’s see all your Rolling Stock other than boxcars and beer reefers. Please post within the forum guidelines in the TOS.

For today I have the sometimes forgotten gondola. Here are three of my gondolas, one accepting barrels for transport, one accepting scrap from the barge, and one having scrap unloaded at the scrap yard. I know there are more gondolas out there handling many different loads. Let's see them!

Gondolas with scrap metal waiting to be unloaded at the scrap yard.

April 21st will mark the 60th anniversary of the opening of the second year of the New York ‘64 - ‘65 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows (WOW… where have the years gone ). I fondly remember numerous visits over the two years of the fair. In that spirit, and continuing my fascination with Lawn-Guy-Lind railroading (and Flushing Meadows Queens IS on the island), here are two MTH cars bearing the fair logo. The Cylindrical Hopper is interesting since MTH made two versions of the MAP car - this one, and another with the Dashing Dan logo.

And in doing some long overdue organizing, I came upon this…

@Mark Boyce I love that tank car! It looks very realistic. Somehow I missed it. I would have definitely ordered one.

Here’s a KLine diecast CB&Q hopper.  I like these diecast cars but have to keep myself in check with these due to my almost 4% ruling grade. And while the Burlington is a bit far west from my  NE railroad-oriented interests -once you spend a little time in the Black Hills of SD, it really grows on you. The 105 mile-long Burlington Black Hills branch is now a rail trail with 100 bridges & 4 tunnels.  It also adjoins the SD State RR museum at Hill City which also has the 1880 steam train excursion - very cool ride.

Rich in WV

I always enjoying playing with this.  The most fun thing that I typically did with it was to run a train (sometimes with cars but sometimes just the engine/dummy or engine/tender) concurrent with running this bumper car and try to avoid a collision.  For maybe 10 years on our family Christmas layouts which I was allowed to design each year, I would plan for a design that made it fun to run 2 and try to avoid colliding.

As an adult, when my son was old enough to run trains (maybe 3 or 4 years old) we would do it too.

- walt

Marx high side gondolas with rivets, different color rivets or no rivets.  End markings are different too!  
Have a great RSM!

@walt rapp posted:

I always enjoying playing with this.  The most fun thing that I typically did with it was to run a train (sometimes with cars but sometimes just the engine/dummy or engine/tender) concurrent with running this bumper car and try to avoid a collision.  For maybe 10 years on our family Christmas layouts which I was allowed to design each year, I would plan for a design that made it fun to run 2 and try to avoid colliding.

As an adult, when my son was old enough to run trains (maybe 3 or 4 years old) we would do it too.

- walt

The layout that I had as a kid had a 90 degree crossing at the bottom of a hill. You couldn't see the train coming down the hill because it was on a helix in the other room. It emerged out a tunnel portal. The crossing track started up a hill just after the  crossing. I ran  a passenger or freight, and a gang car. Sometimes the gang car scored a hit and sometimes it

got broadsided. 😱

@Hudson J1e posted:

@Mark Boyce I love that tank car! It looks very realistic. Somehow I missed it. I would have definitely ordered one.

Thank you, Phil!  In keeping with the Oil City tank car theme, here is an MTH Quaker State car.

I found a picture of my other LIRR MAP cylindrical hopper with Dashing Dan. I’m not sure of the significance, but it’s interesting that the World’s Fair is LIRR 1965 and the Dashing Dan version is LIRR 1965 2015.

Well today, supporting Bob's post and concern about the "forgotten" gondola, I am posting 3 of mine all from post war or modern Lionel.

First is the absolute classic the Lionel 2452 from 1945-1947 the "original" post war car that pioneered the mfg process of casting plastic.  This one because of the dating feature of the large "G27" in the last line of the data on the right of the PRR logo shows it is from 1947,  I was 3 years old when I got mine in '47.  They did not come from Lionel with barrels the ones shown are from the same approximate era but were sold separately. When you compare the 2452 in this first picture with the 6142 in the last you can see the entire life cycle of postwar Lionel.  2452 with crisp, elaborate livery, sharp molding detail, separate hand brake wheel, added stirrups under the body edge,  etc.  6142 plain molding including the brake wheel , no stirrups at all, and a very simple livery (not a real RR as well).

Leaping ahead many years until 1984 we have this colorful gondola from Lionel (MPC).  It did come with the blue containers to match the 1/4 blue body.

Finally the poor, lowly 6142 from Lionel in the last phases of the original company.  Made '63-'66 and in '69 u.  Besides this green it came in blue and black with 2 canisters (oops missing).   You may remember that '69 was the last year of existence for the original Lionel Co so this poor lady was just about the end for rolling stock until General Mills took over in 1970.  Plain plastic molded body including a molded brake wheel, no stirrups,  plain single color lettering.

Best Wishes, Don

Here is a 027 scale Rail King in ATSF livery.

This is a work in progress.  I bought 2 Menards PRR gondolas for a project that never got off the ground.  Since then, I have been saving empty rolls of dog doo doo bags thinking they looked like short pipes with flanges on the ends.  So here are the raw materials for a future load.

@Mark Boyce posted:

This is a work in progress.  I bought 2 Menards PRR gondolas for a project that never got off the ground.  Since then, I have been saving empty rolls of dog doo doo bags thinking they looked like short pipes with flanges on the ends.  So here are the raw materials for a future load.

Mark, great idea! Give them a quick spray paint of choice and they certainly could pass for a short pipe load.

Gene

@Genemed posted:

Mark, great idea! Give them a quick spray paint of choice and they certainly could pass for a short pipe load.

Gene

Gene, thank you!  Add some kind of straps to hold them down.  Lately I have been collecting plastic ones with no ‘flange’. They will work as well.

Walt's post today reminded of my postwar fire car... bump and go!

@pennsyfan posted:

The layout that I had as a kid had a 90 degree crossing at the bottom of a hill. You couldn't see the train coming down the hill because it was on a helix in the other room. It emerged out a tunnel portal. The crossing track started up a hill just after the  crossing. I ran  a passenger or freight, and a gang car. Sometimes the gang car scored a hit and sometimes it

got broadsided. 😱

@pennsyfan - I agree that a 90 crossing is a MUST if running 2 trains and trying to avoid a collision is the fun objective.  We always had at least one on our Christmas layouts.

- walt