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A custom car for your layout.

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  • From: Corpus Christi, Texas
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Posted by leighant on Sunday, August 3, 2003 8:07 PM
I usually want to have a particular car on my railroad and build a custom car if that's the only way to have it. Santa Fe sulphur cars, Hart convertible longitudinal-dump ballast cars (the Walthers car isn't exactly the one I wanted), carbon black covered hoppers ( a bit different than any of the plastic models available), Santa Fe high-side wood chip gondolas converted from GA-26. Any particular prototype area you are modeling that would suggest a car? Didn't Lampasas have a mule-drawn passenger car at one time to ferry passengers from the mainline that bypassed the town, to downtown? Why not model THAT car?
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    August 2002
  • From: Corpus Christi, Texas
  • 2,377 posts
Posted by leighant on Sunday, August 3, 2003 8:07 PM
I usually want to have a particular car on my railroad and build a custom car if that's the only way to have it. Santa Fe sulphur cars, Hart convertible longitudinal-dump ballast cars (the Walthers car isn't exactly the one I wanted), carbon black covered hoppers ( a bit different than any of the plastic models available), Santa Fe high-side wood chip gondolas converted from GA-26. Any particular prototype area you are modeling that would suggest a car? Didn't Lampasas have a mule-drawn passenger car at one time to ferry passengers from the mainline that bypassed the town, to downtown? Why not model THAT car?
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A custom car for your layout.
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 3, 2003 1:45 PM
I'm thinking about doing a custom car for my HO layout.
The first one is a club car and the other will be a custom built sytrene car.
Any ideas?

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    April 2003
  • 305,205 posts
A custom car for your layout.
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 3, 2003 1:45 PM
I'm thinking about doing a custom car for my HO layout.
The first one is a club car and the other will be a custom built sytrene car.
Any ideas?

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