Would You Buy This Model?

Two BL2s.  Sort of looks a bit like a GG1.  No I wouldn't buy it, but looks like he did a nice job!

Given my budget,  I'd be more inclined to build my own.  Nifty concept! 

Mitch 

     The Pennsylvania Railroad built three of these for emergency tunnel rescues. If the New York Central had needed one, they would have had to haul it to New England in order to switch it to their tracks.

Reminds me of the one or more double-ended unique styled diesel switchers built for Ford (those, and the Rock Island cabbed B units) are two diesels l would have to be restrained from buying.   But l am safe.....not enough buyers...

Again, very nice job but no. If it wasn't on the N&W pre-1960 roster, I'm not interested.

Because its unusual, probably yes

Yes to both.

Yes, it's a model of a real railcar. 12 members of the Southern Pacific Railroad Police have been shot to death in the line of duty. 

Good weathering on a boxcar that never existed.

Yea, I'd probably buy a model of this.  I think it's pretty cool.

The fifth photo down is an actual railcar. However, none of the models represent actual railcars. Look at the second picture: that is $436.05 in today's dollars for a four-pack.

Definitely. And it looks like the kind of model that a beginner could build on a flatcar.

Vincent Massi posted:

Good weathering on a boxcar that never existed.

It sure looks like a car that could have existed, though. For a fantasy car, it's plausible.

I've been to Hershey PA a few times over the years and love their products, so if I modelled standard gauge and got a good deal on it, yeah, I might have bought one of these!

None of them are real, but they will certainly be interesting additions to your lay-out.

Never was a reefer or housecar made for Hershey?  Thought l'd seen a old photo, but maybe no.

p51 posted:

Vincent Massi posted:

Good weathering on a boxcar that never existed.

It sure looks like a car that could have existed, though. For a fantasy car, it's plausible.

I've been to Hershey PA a few times over the years and love their products, so if I modelled standard gauge and got a good deal on it, yeah, I might have bought one of these!

Link, for fear of the dreaded copyright infringement:

https://www.protocraft.com/cat...77&Categoryid=21

Rusty

I would put an entire train of these on my layout! Cool boxcar, great weathering.

Hershey's really did have their own trucks. Most of them delivered milk, while ice cream trucks were a distant second. These trucks only went to and from their factories, however. I THINK that none of these models  represent real Hershey's trucks. But I'd love to have them on my lay-out.

Neat looking trucks, whehter they existed in full size or not!

Okay, I'm cheating: these are REAL Hershey trucks.

The nice thing about flat cars is that you have plenty of room for improvements.

If it actually ran...

Yes!

Vincent Massi posted:

Yes!

Nah.   I rolled my own.  

;-)  

Mitch 

The October 2011 Model Railroader magazine introduced this stupendous Bachman EM 1-2-8-8-4 locomotive. Baldwin Iron Works manufactured thirty of them, delivering them all to B&O in the last two years of WW2. Easy to maintain and operate, they excelled in the mountainous regions of West Virginia.

In 1960, B&O retired the last one, marking the end of their use of steam. A restored loco was accidentally sent to a scrapyard, and none of these magnificent steam locomotives remain.

Vincent Massi posted:

Baldwin Iron Works manufactured thirty of them, delivering them all to B&O in the last two years of WW2.

 

Baldwin Iron Works????

Baldwin Locomotive Works.

Rusty

Rusty Traque posted:

Vincent Massi posted:

Baldwin Iron Works manufactured thirty of them, delivering them all to B&O in the last two years of WW2.

 

Baldwin Iron Works????

Baldwin Locomotive Works.

Rusty

Aaaaaargh!!!!!!! What was I thinking?

Thank you, Rusty.

I will take 1/48 or even 1/43 models of the first and fourth versions of real trucks posted above, if the fourth is a reversed negative, and not actually right hand drive.

Someone really did issue a train set for The Island of Misfit Toys. I have unsuccessfully tried to find ANYTHING (figures, toy cars, etc.) from the show to use in my Christmas display.

It's a real locomotive, serving as a logging locomotive in eastern Maine for 44 years. It resides today in a museum.

It would go well with some of my lay-outs.

The non-motorized model was well-made, but I don't think it sold too well.

                                         No, they never really made one.

The "Iron Commander" would go well on my floor, but not on my train table.

Now, THAT is a sharp-looking caboose!

I'm guessing something has to have a counterpart in the 'real' world before there can be a 'model' of it. The GOOD news is there in NOT a Bat Train out there! 

Simon

                                   The Coast Guard really does (or did) have a few switcher locomotives, and they have a caboose that has been converted into an office.

                                                                          I really do think that I could build one of these.

                                          An unusually sharp-looking tank car.