This is the place to share your scratch-built, kit-bashed, or kit MOW trains.
-Tim
Custom made PRR work train from my first n scale layout. Jim
Built these in the 60's. They were the first cars on the new layout in 05.
Some of mine.
Rotor
Jake: How often does the train go by? Elwood: So often you won't even notice ...
Courage8 wrote:Nice collection! Is the spreader scratchbuilt? I kitbashed a flanger years ago based on the SP design; MOW equipment is intersting, and makes the yard more interesting, too.
Thanks Courage8!
The Jordan Spreader is a Walthers kit I did over 10 years ago, as is the Russell snow plow. The derrick car is an Athearn RTR I got about 3 or 4 years ago. I also have an Athearn rotary snow plow, (not shown).
Here's a few of mine.
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This is an old set I got back in the early 1960's. They were sold as a complete 8-car train.
I posed them here to get them all into the picture. (Click on it for a larger view.)
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Looks like i have the same crane as Mr Beasley
I had to stuff mine with lead to get it to stay on the track
runs great now
I made the shorty flat car from an old caboose by cutting the porches off
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jeffrey-wimberly wrote:MisterB: I used to have a set that was very similar to what you show there. Mine was made by Walther's.
Yeah, somebody identified them as something originally made by Tru-line (I think.) They went out of business, but Walthers may have the original molds for these cars now. Maybe they will re-release them sometime. The originals had horn-hooks, and the coupler pockets had non-standard center pins. I had to cut them off and install Kadee draft gear boxes to make them work.
MisterBeasley wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote:MisterB: I used to have a set that was very similar to what you show there. Mine was made by Walther's.Yeah, somebody identified them as something originally made by Tru-line (I think.) They went out of business, but Walthers may have the original molds for these cars now. Maybe they will re-release them sometime. The originals had horn-hooks, and the coupler pockets had non-standard center pins. I had to cut them off and install Kadee draft gear boxes to make them work.
Wow, until I chanced upon this thread I didn't really remember having any MoW cars in my inventory. They have been stored away for so long, as I really don't have a free siding to display them on with my current layout.
I beleive I built all of these N-scale models back in college, or shortly thereafter. Tool Car #12 is simply a repainted double-door boxcar. Bunk Car #11 has wooden scratchbuilt sides and a wooden roof built over the shell of what was an old reefer. (If I remember correctly.) The "bobber" caboose is entirely scratchbuilt of the same wood material, it's foundation is a Kadee passenger-car truck.
My snowplow is a converted tender from an old Atlas/Rivarossi Pacific. The plow blades are made up from parts salvaged from a model of the Space Shuttle! I don't run it on my layout because the plow fouls on the sides of a couple of bridges.
In the process of enlarging the photo I also just noticed that I'm missing a wheelset from the front truck.
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
This is my favorite. Notice how the back end is up on blocks......very redneck.
Not to forget the ever favorite...
The Dixie D Short Line "Lux Lucet In Tenebris Nihil Igitur Mors Est Ad Nos 2001"
Hey, I really like the loo on wheels (and a UP loo; appropriately enough). This apparently didn't get absorbed in the SP merger . . . BLMA makes a pretty nice model of one of these for about $4 each (but it needs weathering, of course.)
HO portable loo
Courage8 wrote:Hey, I really like the loo on wheels (and a UP loo; appropriately enough). This apparently didn't get absorbed in the SP merger . . . BLMA makes a pretty nice model of one of these for about $4 each (but it needs weathering, of course.) HO portable loo
I don't have any close-up photos of the equipment, but my MOW train is a kind of hand-me-down collection of a Tichy crane and boom car, some old Roundhouse 3-in-1 kits and a few older Walther's/Silver Streak MOW cars. Gives my stubby little Rio Grande 2-8-0 something to do when it's not setting out cattle cars in the high country during the spring.
These photos were taken several years back at Sierra City before I did some major modifications to the area.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Darkness looms and the sun sinks as the CB&W crew attempt to replace a broken wheel.
The "Big Little Hook" waiting for business.
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!