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Do you have a favorite freight car???

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JeremyB
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Do you have a favorite freight car???
Posted by JeremyB on Friday, January 23, 2004 12:06 PM
Hi guys

do you guys have favorite freight cars and if so what are they. Mine are gons and tank cars

Jeremy
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 23, 2004 1:23 PM
Probably double-stack container cars - colourful, impressive, sadly getting hard to find in HO scale! I guess the reason Ilike them is because they're so far removed from British container handling equipment, which is all single-deck due to restricted loading gauge.
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 23, 2004 1:27 PM
I love boxcars. I like that you can see different roads in the same train. I also enjoy tank cars. I like ssing all the different company tank cars mixed on 1 train.
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Posted by nfmisso on Friday, January 23, 2004 1:51 PM
Coal hoppers <G>

My wife likes tank cars.
Nigel N&W in HO scale, 1950 - 1955 (..and some a bit newer too) Now in San Jose, California
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 23, 2004 1:54 PM
My all-time favorite is a 36 ft single sheathed boxcar with an 8 ft IH running on Andrews solid bearing trucks with a modified K brake system. Needs to have a vertical brake staff.

Tom
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 23, 2004 1:55 PM
Billboard reefers are my favourite, just because of the variety of products you used to be able to find. A close second is outside braced box cars, and third would be snowplows. I have examples of the first two, but I have yet to get myself a proper snowplow.

Andrew

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Dough
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Posted by Dough on Friday, January 23, 2004 3:09 PM
I had a really hard time picking a favorite. I like a lot of MW equipment so I guess that my favorite is old, odd, and rare cars. Especially fallen flags.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 23, 2004 3:15 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by talbanese

I love boxcars. I like that you can see different roads in the same train. I also enjoy tank cars. I like ssing all the different company tank cars mixed on 1 train.


Ditto....almost like a travel brochure with all of the various roadnames. I remember seeing cars from all over the country.
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Jetrock
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Posted by Jetrock on Friday, January 23, 2004 3:52 PM
I'm fond of the mundane 40 foot boxcar. Simple but they come in a zillion varieties...
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orsonroy
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Posted by orsonroy on Friday, January 23, 2004 4:10 PM
I like stock cars. If I wasn't so much into railfanning the mainline on my model RR, I'd be modeling Union Stockyards in Chicago (or a part of it, anyway!)

Ray Breyer

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CBQ_Guy
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Posted by CBQ_Guy on Friday, January 23, 2004 4:25 PM
I've never thought of it before. Now that I do, I kind of like tank cars for all the variety in types and sizes. A close second would probably be the billboard reefers as others have mentioned.
"Paul [Kossart] - The CB&Q Guy" [In Illinois] ~ Modeling the CB&Q and its fictional 'Illiniwek River-Subdivision-Branch Line' in the 1960's. ~
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BNSFNUT
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Posted by BNSFNUT on Friday, January 23, 2004 5:07 PM
I like covered hoppers. Have 4 industries on the layout that need them.
I keep telling myself that I don't need anymore but keep on purchasing them.

There is no such thing as a bad day of railfanning. So many trains, so little time.

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AggroJones
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Posted by AggroJones on Friday, January 23, 2004 5:13 PM
Boxcars. They vary in a million ways. My favorite is the 50' wooden braced automobile box.

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CP5415
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Posted by CP5415 on Friday, January 23, 2004 5:32 PM
Thrall Alldoor Boxcars.
It's a cool design to keep wood products nice & dry.
I have 8 of them & plan on getting more.

Gordon

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preceng
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Posted by preceng on Friday, January 23, 2004 6:10 PM
Love 'em all, but if I must pick one it has to be my 50 ton Accurail coal cars. There smaller, so its the closest I can get to a unit train.
Allan B.
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 23, 2004 6:33 PM
Yes i do, as a matter of fact the 50 ft RailBox car also the Railgon gondolas any 54 ft covered hopper and any 60 ft tanker as well these are my favorites as i cant settle for just one as far as doublestack cars go seen one seen them all pretty much the same thing to me but with freight cars there is a great variety to see and choose from

Regards

Larry
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IRONROOSTER
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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Friday, January 23, 2004 7:10 PM
Truss rod box cars on archbar trucks.
Enjoy
Paul
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 23, 2004 7:13 PM
Center beam flats or covered hoppers.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 23, 2004 7:44 PM
I'm in love with Cabooses. A modern day tragedy for me is the discontinuence of the use of these wonderful railroady pieces of equipment. Next in line are 40 foot Box Cars. I could see myself having no other car on the layout than box cars. being a Northern Pacific fan, this would not be unrealistic.

Oh, by the way. N.P. 24 foot Cabooses where the neatest cabeese on earth! If you don't know this, there is no hope for you!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 23, 2004 8:43 PM
50' plug door boxcars.
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mustanggt
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Posted by mustanggt on Friday, January 23, 2004 8:58 PM
This is'nt a freight car but I've always liked those Bombardier bilevel coches.
I love the exposed disc brakes on each truck
C280 rollin'
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electromotive
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Posted by electromotive on Friday, January 23, 2004 9:33 PM
The PS-2 covered hopper Proto 2000 is great , need more.. Also the 4650 releases from Atlas and InterMountain are also excellent, along with Atlas's ACF PressureAide Centerflow hoppers

More units like these will make my day..........
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mustanggt
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Posted by mustanggt on Friday, January 23, 2004 9:33 PM
This is'nt a freight car but I've always liked those Bombardier bilevel coches.
I love the exposed disc brakes on each truck
C280 rollin'
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electromotive
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Posted by electromotive on Friday, January 23, 2004 9:37 PM
The PS-2 covered hopper Proto 2000 is great , need more.. Also the 4650 releases from Atlas and InterMountain are also excellent, along with Atlas's ACF PressureAide Centerflow hoppers

More units like these will make my day..........
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Hawks05
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Posted by Hawks05 on Friday, January 23, 2004 9:40 PM
i like Hoppers mainly. just cool because you can see what the train is hauling instead of guessing some what when you see a boxcar. my 2nd favorite is probably the boxcars. those are just cool and colorful.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 24, 2004 12:19 AM
My favorite cars have got to be coil cars!! [8D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 24, 2004 9:44 AM
Being from a small lumber/paper mill town, seeing bulkheadend flat cars being pulled away by the local switcher was impressive.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:24 PM
Roadrailer!!! My second favoite is coal hoppers.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:33 PM
Too many to pick from.
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BRAKIE
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Posted by BRAKIE on Saturday, January 24, 2004 8:30 PM
My favorite car is the boxcar-short line boxcars to be exact from the per diem era..The odder the road name the better..

Larry

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