Time to break away from the Flyer Polar Vortex for a little while...
With a sale at DesPlaines this weekend, my small fleet of modern equipment took a little growth spurt with the acquisition of three new cars, so I assembled it all into a train and took some pictures:
Now my modeling is pretty much stuck in the 1950's and 60's. In real life, I pretty much stopped following the contemporary scene during the 1980's. But, every now and then it's nice to have a change of scene.
Rusty
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Rusty,
I like your new cars, they look very nice. Your layout is pretty nice looking also.
Thank you for sharing,
Aflyer
Very nice additions.
The GP's are AM units. They were actually the first ones ordered (according to Don Thompson) way back when SHS supplied the funding to AM.
Oak River is the railroad of an HO club (Oak Park Society of Model Engineers) I used to belong to back in the 70's and 80's. The paint scheme is what they were using at the time. (Plus, I painted up 2 Athearn GP35's this way for them when I was there...)
I did a post on them a couple of years ago, (on the old pre-Hoopla OGR forum, I think) when I finally got around to painting them.
The cylindrical hopper is Lionel/Flyer. Trucks are AM, spacers lobbed off of SHS AF compatible couplers and Kadee's mounted directly to the frame without the Lionel spacers. The only mod was some Evergreen tubing in the bolster for a 00-90 screw.
Rusty
Rusty,
I remember those HO units on the cover of RMC oh so many yrs ago. I liked that paint scheme then and still do. It reminded me of WP for some reason. Great shots, glad to see them posted.
Greg
Very nice, Rusty!!!
Hello Rusty......
Very well done with the photos to tell the story.
If Lionel won't build new S stuff I guess we'll have to use their old stuff and re-purpose it? Here's a boxcar made from an O-27 hi cube junker. now I gotta find a reefer that will work for PFE 57 footers :>
.........DaveB
If Lionel won't build new S stuff I guess we'll have to use their old stuff and re-purpose it? Here's a boxcar made from an O-27 hi cube junker. now I gotta find a reefer that will work for PFE 57 footers :> .........DaveB
Nice conversion. Maybe you should write it up for S Scale Resource.
Rusty
Dave did a nice writeup on the conversion over on the Model Railroad Hobbiest forum.
http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/19614
Roy
Hi Roy, Thanks for posting that link. If anyone has more questions about converting these type of cars( or any type if it will help) I'd be glad to answer them here..DaveB
Dave did a nice writeup on the conversion over on the Model Railroad Hobbiest forum.
http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/19614
Roy
Just looked over Dave's write up. He's taken a toylike car, saw something better in it and had at it. Nice to see he went also beyond simply taking 1/4" out of the middle and adding new doors.
While some might quibble about the accuracy of the car, it's still a convincing model of a car that a person would think he saw in a train sometime, somewhere.
Reminds me of a car I picked up at an S Fest many moons ago. It was built by one of the guys in Minneapolis, unfortunately I don't remember his name.(Steve Doyle?)
He took sides from a Tyco HO 50' plug door boxcar and melded them into an AM 40' boxcar, creating a unique, not exactly prototypical, but convincing car none the less.
Anyway, both this and Dave's SP Hy-Cube show that sometimes a little imagination can make up for the lack of variety we S Scalers face.
Rusty
"He took sides from a Tyco HO 50' plug door boxcar and melded them into an AM 40' boxcar, creating a unique, not exactly prototypical, but convincing car none the less."
I like that, it reminds me of a car converted for lumber service..DaveB
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