Bob, Those shovels are Awesome!!!!
I want your Snowplows!!!!!
Found a few more images in my Photobucket account of some MOW equipment:
Bob Boudreau
CANADA
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Bob, that double ended plow on the lower photo is really neat looking.
This is my big hook 250 ton crane and crane tender in my freelanced Bunker Hill and Eastern colors. Athearn blue box undecorated with Champ decals and added details like floodlights
I have some more, I may have to dig them out of a box and photograph them.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
MOW has been one of my favorites, and I have quite a few, too many to show individually. Here are some group shots:
Very Nice Work Guys!!!
Someday I would like to make a nice Plow that DME/ICE uses. I freelanced one using an ore car that I covered & repositioned the front truck, It looks neat but not prototypical.
Dave you have some sweet MOW cars!!! That CP shorty is VERY nice, and I'm going to have to get one of those flanger kits!!!!
Anyway, Here are some pics of what I have and some of what I dont have anymore but are appropriate for this post. I love looking at others MOW stuff, the best part about MOW equip is that most roads used older cars or made homebuilt things, so it really brodens the scope of what you can do when it comes to customizing. There is no "this is how its supposed to look" in MOW equip!!!!!!
Okay.... Here goes....
This is an old Athern rubber band drive rotary that started it all out for me collecting snowfighting equip. It was on my way to the springfield Mass train show many many years ago when I was a kid. I have had this car unchanged for over 25 years!!!!!
This is one of an old Brittish Hornby Triang Plow. It is OO scale, but if you change out the trucks they make great HO candidates. These ones are getting hard to find and sually the wings are broken. This one is minty mint!! Not going to touch this one!
Here are 2 that I got from a fellow railroader / plow enthusiest, they are the pride of my fleet. The CN plow is from a triang plow, heavily customized, and the other is another athern rotary which is also heavily customized to be a self propelled diesel.....side shot not produced to protect his personal railway name. ;)
This is a work in progress that I currently working on. Its a Walthers Russell winged plow that I have shortened (does anyone know why they shortened plows???) Anyway it sits on a custom painted Bachman depressed well flat car in which I removed the plastic decking and put in wood boards piece by peice. I still have alot more detail work to go on this one including tiedown chains and a spot for the trucks on the front, I'll post more pics when its done.
This is a pic of an old Northeasten plow I sold a while back, but thought it was nicely done
Here is a B&M Triang plow I did back when I first started weathering.... looking back its a little embarrising....LOL below it is another B&M but from a Walthers kit.
Here is a Custom Finishing Jet Snowblower... These are used to melt the snow from switches with the heat from a small jet engine!!!
This is another of my favorites, Its a Walthers car custom painted by a good friend of mine here in Virginia, he does lots of custom painting and weathering and sells a lot online. He has a certain artistic way that is different from everyone else.
Another Walthers Kit painted up in Maine Central colors.... Thsi one didnt come out to my liking, its about to get a repaint after I trun it into a Double track plow!!!!
This is a Brass plow I sold about a year ago that I am kicking myself for......I really wish I had this one back, but the seller wont sell back..... I tried!!! hehehe ;)
I tried my hand at a Double Track plow.... It came out okay but I went a little crazy with the weatheing and didnt do any decal work on it. It was a Walthers single track that I converted using styrene. Even added custom grab bars.
Heres a B&M 25 tom crane I built out of an undecorated walthers crane.... The chain is a little out of scale but I have 3 feet of 40LPI on its way to resolve that problem.
the rest are just a mix of the above listed plows. Thats about all for now, I am also about to start a new double track plow from the MEC car I pictured......I am not pleased with the color of the green, the decals cracked from being old and my weathering was again from when I had just started. More to come on that one.
Cool thread Dave, Hope to see more plows and MOW equipment.... Lets see what keeps your railroads up and running!!!!!!
Steve
I like to model MOW oddball stuff. I have recently been communicating with Plowman and he has some really neat plows in his fleet. I am curious to see what others have that is scratch built or kitbashed in their MOW equipment. Here are a few of mine. Many are Roundhouse 3 in 1 kits which are sort of half scratch built. The shortened Russell snow plow is a Walthers kit based on a picture I found on the net. All are still works in progress. Pardon the dust on some!
Let's see what you got!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!