Hers's a pic of my (scratched-built) Poultry Car. To create the illusion of live chickens, i used small pieces of chicken shaped cotton, followed by a dab of red paint to represent their beaks and heads. The cotton helps create the illusion of feathers, especially when seen behind the chicken wire (weeding toule fabric). I used my PC to create the lettering (white letters on black paper) followed by a flat finish. Part of the fun of modeling the 1930's is so i can run these great looking freight cars.
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Have Fun.... Bob.
Nice work... and no squawkin'...
- Adam
When all else fails, wing it!
It's always neat to view a model setting that you have to spend some time examining the photo to figure out if it's a model or the real thing. I thought I saw one of the chickens move while doing so, but decided it was just my wobbly eyes.
One of the guys at the club had a livestock car with a decoder that made such a racket I don't know what was in it, sounded like chickens, cows, horses, and sheep all at once.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
That's an excellent model, Bob!
Have you seen this photo of the real thing?
9251 001 by John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, on Flickr
Not long ago I saw an HO model by Overland on a consignment sale. It was priced at nearly a thousand dollars. That ain't chicken scratch!
Regards, Ed
What you may or may not know is those cars carried an attendant to feed and water the birds en-route. The center of the car had a bunk, sink, and stove for this person. Having been on chicken and turkey farms, I can only imagine how smelly this job was, not to mention the insane never-ending noise of the birds.
--Randy
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Nice job, got a few of those cars.
That's some really cool and clever modeling, not to mention the nice presentation.
Regards, Peter
But they are not real chickens unless they are tall chickens. Just like the only real cows are long cows!
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I really wish I had a picture of the "Tall Chicken and Long Cow" ranch on the layout that was on display at the Happy Hobo hobby shop in Tampa before they closed.
It was quite a sight.
Nice job on the scene. Great modeling work.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Nice job! The chickens are especially effective.
Live chickens doing any travelling on my layout are usually in crates on the back of a farmer's pick-up truck, heading to a local market. The picture below shows the trip home after a successful day...
On another occasion, though, a truck got stuck on the crossing, and while the driver and his brother got out safely, the truck and most of the chickens didn't fare so well...
Even some of the chickens still running around during the clean-up ended up in the caboose, in the form of the conductor's renowned chicken stew.
Wayne
Dr. Wayne, nice modeling.... I really like that accident scene.
Bob, the chicken hauler is great! So is the backdrop. My first impression was that I was looking at the real thing.
Dave
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Wonder who was task with cleaning up the floor of that car,...ha...ha
Brian
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Probably the guy who rode along inside. Plus there was another big of ingenious design to those cars - the cages sloped slightly to the outside, so 'stuff' would roll to the outside, not to the center aisle between them. Probably not a good idea to be standing too close trackside when one of those cars went past.
rrinkerProbably not a good idea to be standing too close trackside when one of those cars went past. --Randy
ROFLMAO
Bet you can smell that train a mile away.
ROAR
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A few years back, Model Railroader (not sure of the issue) ran an article about special chick trains. There used to be a daily train than ran from Belton, MO to Clinton, MO (where I live now). Clinton was known as the "baby chick capitol of the world". It was a lot more efficient to ship chicks than full-grown chickens simply because of the sheer numbers.
Marlon
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Medina1128A few years back, Model Railroader (not sure of the issue) ran an article about special chick trains.
Now that would have been interesting to see.
I like the way you have a Facebook thing. I just took quite a scroll (You know, verses stroll)
Mike.
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There's a picture of it in Jeff WIlson's Exrpess and LCL book - chicks in boxes were shipped REA instead of the chicken/turkey cars - they'd fall through the screening or be badly injured if they were shipped int he big cars without some 'packing' material.
Forget the poultry cars, imagine a unit stock train of pigs... train arrives at 12:20pm, but you can smell it by 11:00am. And still smell it hours after it leaves.
Medina1128 A few years back, Model Railroader (not sure of the issue) ran an article about special chick trains. There used to be a daily train than ran from Belton, MO to Clinton, MO (where I live now). Clinton was known as the "baby chick capitol of the world". It was a lot more efficient to ship chicks than full-grown chickens simply because of the sheer numbers.
Believe it was in Model Railroad Planning 2008. See http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?threads/clinton-chicken-train.3091/#post-20093 for more info...
Gary
rrinker Forget the poultry cars, imagine a unit stock train of pigs... train arrives at 12:20pm, but you can smell it by 11:00am. And still smell it hours after it leaves.
Wow, I never knew such a thing existed! Reading your post put a smile on my face as I thought about the cleverness and whimsy of it all, then it slowly dawned on me that this was a real thing Great work on the modeling. I especially like the "pieces of chicken shaped cotton"
Since it's Easter season, might I suggest a second car filled with little yellow marshmallow Peeps instead of chickens?
Dan Stokes
My other car is a tunnel motor
rrinker There's a picture of it in Jeff WIlson's Exrpess and LCL book - chicks in boxes were shipped REA instead of the chicken/turkey cars - they'd fall through the screening or be badly injured if they were shipped int he big cars without some 'packing' material. Forget the poultry cars, imagine a unit stock train of pigs... train arrives at 12:20pm, but you can smell it by 11:00am. And still smell it hours after it leaves. --Randy
Raised on farms, cattle (cows, steers, etc.) didn't bother me. Pigs, well a little more intense, but the chicken coop! OMG, the ammonia smell of the chicken **** and urine, was breath taking!. Especially during the winter, when they were confined to the coop, or in a larger version, chicken house.
Yeah, I've been in cow barns. While the smell isn't exactly pleasant, it's not unbearable - which is why on the occasion when the wind is just right,t he smell of the mushroom houses around here don't bother me so much - although my GF, who grew up on a farm (I was just a relative - it was my uncle that had the farm I visited) gags at the smell. Go figure. But the chickens, or turkeys.. bring forth the menthol to rub under your nose.
And to think, there was once that company that made scented smoke oil - and also I think just scented oils (put a little dab somewhere and like an air freshener it gave off the scenet, no heating required) - Olfactory Airs. And that had good ones - like pine to put in your logging steamers, but they also had various more industrial and rural smells. I guess if you used little cottom chickens in the chicken car you have the perfect place to add authentic chicken coop scents. Wait, you didn't WANT to be a lone wolf operator?
Does anybody make a 1930's live chicken car? I'd like to build a model of the Belfast & Moosehead Lake RR in Maine and live chicken cars are a feature of the area and period.
MalcyMalcDoes anybody make a 1930's live chicken car?
https://brasstrains.com/classic/Product/Detail/055341/HO-Brass-Model-Train-OMI-1388-Overland-Palace-Poultry-Car-1920-1950-Era
Or painted:
https://www.brasstrains.com/Classic/Product/Detail/072894/HO-Brass-Model-OMI-1388-1-Palace-Poultry-Car-1920-1950-Era-Custom-4202
You can add this to a "want-list" and Brass Trains will notify you when one becomes available.
Have Fun! Ed
gmpullman MalcyMalc Does anybody make a 1930's live chicken car? https://brasstrains.com/classic/Product/Detail/055341/HO-Brass-Model-Train-OMI-1388-Overland-Palace-Poultry-Car-1920-1950-Era Or painted: https://www.brasstrains.com/Classic/Product/Detail/072894/HO-Brass-Model-OMI-1388-1-Palace-Poultry-Car-1920-1950-Era-Custom-4202 You can add this to a "want-list" and Brass Trains will notify you when one becomes available. Have Fun! Ed
MalcyMalc Does anybody make a 1930's live chicken car?
THAT would be the most expensive piece orolling stock on my layout.
I went for monkeys instead.