Who models present day MOW equipment?

[Anonymous]

In an old Walthers Wish Book, Athearn had two different MOW sets. Did anybody on here buy them, opinions, photos? and does anybody know if Athearn still makes or anybody else makes a complete set (three-five cars) of different MOW equipment? I'm trying to get ideas. HO scale

[MisterBeasley]

I just checked the Walters site (www.walthers.com) and did a search for MOW. Lots of items showed up. Good hunting.

[METRO]

Custom Finishing makes tons of MOW equipment, just about every peice of machinery you can imagine, with a couple notable exceptions.

The first would be a SRS railcar, but Walthers made one a couple years ago that shouldn't be too hard to find.

The second would be a work train, but Walthers has you covered there too, but you might have to dig a bit for them.

Third would be large cranes, but there are tons of companies that make cranes from a variety of sources.

Fourth and finally would be large plows, but currently I'm not aware of a company making large plows and blowers, I've been looking for one myself.

~METRO

[MisterBeasley]

I have an old "work train" from the 60's. I checked and could not find a manufacturer label anywhere. I've got a "gray" set. As I recall, there was also a "safety orange" set available at the time. The set has a crane, crane tender, flat car, open "ballast" car, and some windowed box cars labelled kitchen, bunkhouse, etc. Is this the set you're thinking about?

[Dough]

This is actually a subject that really interests me. I spend a lot of time photographing MoW equipment. I have found that most of those MoW sets are not very good for modern MoW. It appears that most MoW equipment requires at least kitbashing if not scratchbuilding. I do like the custom finishing stuff and there are a lot of good ballast cars and side dump cars available.

Also remember that much of the MoW rolling stock is simply converted revenue cars. For example on CSX and NS I often see old Seaboard, C&O, B&O, Chessie, Southern, NW, and Conrail equipment. CSX also uses ex FGE reefers as tool cars.

Do searches for the roadname that you are modeling and see what they use and go from there.