I finally just about completed my set of backwoods rolling stock for my Porter to pull. I made a tender, ore car and a boxcar. All were built from a HLW mini flat.
Nice little fleet.
Tom Trigg
Dear Snow,
Is the construction material styrene? I was thinking about doing a project in balsa for indoor stock. Any thoughts on balsa vs styrene? Much appreciated your comments.
Best Wishes,
Jack Majcher
Altoona, PA
Snowshoe, that is a great boxcar!! Any chance of dimensions...length, width, height?
SandyR
Great train! Do you have a link to the thread where you or someone showed how to make those couplers? Also, do you have any more pics of your RR posted anywhere? Thanks for sharing.
yellowducky Great train! Do you have a link to the thread where you or someone showed how to make those couplers? Also, do you have any more pics of your RR posted anywhere? Thanks for sharing.
He might have used my DIY method, heres a PDF of it.
http://gold.mylargescale.com/vsmith/DIY_LinkandPin.pdf
Have fun with your trains
Thanks for that link and PDF. I've been looking for something just like it!
Jim H
Yup, that's the link I wanted. Thanks.
Glad to help, at one time it was on a sticky of usefull topics somewhere
The boxcar was built ontop of a Hartland Mini series flat car. The height is 4 inches tall I forget off hand what the hartland mini flats are in dimensions.
Thanks to Vic I made the link and pin couplers from Vics plans. They are easy to make and look great.
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