MalcyMalc 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.
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.
Not sure if 30’s but there is this from BLI - it even has sound.
Gary
The BLI one is the wrong type of car, it's more or less a generic stock car, and for larger stock like cattle at that - pig and sheep cars usually had multiple decks. It's a fairly modern car as well.
Ambroid made a kit of the poultry car similar to the OP's scratchbuilt one - there's 3 or 4 of them on Ebay now. Not exactly 'cheap' but a lot less expensive than the brass ones.
--Randy
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