This semi-scratchbuilt boxcar is a recently-built favourite...
I had the roof, from Red Caboose, on-hand, and used ladders from Intermountain, doors from Bowser, and brake gear from Tichy. Sill steps are from A-Line, Kadee couplers and trucks from perhaps Atlas. Rivets are from either Archer or MicroMark, and lettering from Speedwitch.
The scratchbuilt stuff is mainly the underbody and brake rigging, and the body shell and its sheathing. I hope to do better on the subsequent ones.
Wayne
Show me one of your favourite items on your layout or in your display case.
Please show me more of your favorite things.
I couldn't come up with a new photo with a particular "favorite thing", so here's a photo of my yard. Watching trains is my favorite thing!
Show me one of your favorite things.
My favorite place to grab a beer and watch football on the big screen TV.
doctorwaynePlease show me some more of your favourite freight cars.
This is like choosing my "favorite" grandchild... how can you pick just one???
Well, I guess this could be considered a "freight" car?
IMG_6717 by Edmund, on Flickr
This big, hot "Thermos Bottle" was a retirement gift from a good friend. That makes it a favorite
More of your favorites, please— car, locomotive OR structure!
Mister Mikado Ya can't fool us, Dr. Wayne--that's a prototype photo, right?
Ya can't fool us, Dr. Wayne--that's a prototype photo, right?
The last request was for more cars. My favorite is the Old German beer car. When I was in high school most of my friends were a year a head of me and when they came home from college they introduced me to Old German.
Please show more cars. Bob
Please show more cars.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
I have so many I don't know what to choose, so here goes!
Rail Yard Models Kit of the PC X79 Boxcar, 60' Car made by Thrall and financed by Kelloggs to transport cereal from Battle Creek, MI all over the country. I added all the brake lines and rodding etc, as it was not included with the kit but shown on the drawings.
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A couple of in progress shots.
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
I built eight of these, starting with Athearn Blue Box cars which I found on the "used" table at a nearby hobbyshop....
All got new ends (Tichy), new floors and underframes - some came with none (Central Valley), new trucks (Proto National B-1s), new roofs (Des Plaines Hobbies), new ladders, roofwalks, grabirons, etc.
All had the car eaves lowered by removing the original roof above the eaves, then cementing the new roof in place, then removing that with the eaves attached and sanding down the cars' sides by about 6" (HO).
Here's an under-construction picture...
Show me more of your favourite freight cars, please.
Boxcars.
More box cars please.
I am always late because in need new pictures.
Sorry, guys. I did not realize that the topic had changed from "coaling towers". I'll try to be more observant.
JOHN C TARANTO I'd like to see more coaling towers.
I'd like to see more coaling towers.
An ex-PRR coaling tower. It is being refurbished and repurposed to load coal cars at the Tuscarora coal mine. The C&O is parked there because I ran out of room for them in the engine yard. I need to stop buying stuff.
G PaineShow me boxcars
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George, This is one of my all time favorites. It is a 50' STRATTON & GILLETTE boxcar with a DF loader system installed. This is the only car I have painted in this scheme. I painted it about 20 years ago when I first switched to HO scale. It is built out of a Like-Like Proto 2000 kit. I am not sure, but it might be the oldest HO scale SGRR car in my collection.
Hope you enjoy!
Show me one of your favorite freight cars!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
2 HOn30 28' boxcars on the Boothbay Railway Village layout
Show me boxcars
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Bradford Valley Lumber Co No. 11, custom painted for my freelanced logging line:
Show me something narrow-gauge.
The Location: Forests of the Pacific Northwest, OregonThe Year: 1948The Scale: On30The Blog: http://bvlcorr.tumblr.com
I think technically we're still on GE diesels, so here's a pair Minnesota Commercial Dash 8s that I finally got all detailed and wired up and running
Show me something custom painted
G Paine SHow me a coaling tower
More coaling towers, please...
These are the coaling towers on my layout. They are part of the Bachmann Spectrum line of structure kits. I replaced the original coal chutes with detail kits made by Tichy.
Two coaling towers...."will that be regular or Ethyl?" Freight or Passenger grade.
G Paine Show one or more GE diesels
Show one or more GE diesels
A pair of GP 15-1....
. Please show more GE diesels Bob
Please show more GE diesels
We have been stuck on coaling towers for a couple of days, so something else. My GE 70 tonner Belfast and Moosehaed Lake 52
G PaineSHow me a coaling tower
IMG_6018_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
It has been a while. The roundhouse and servicing area at Boohbay Railway Village
SHow me a coaling tower
WOW.
Spectacular, South Penn. Post more photos when the landscape's in.
A little late but here is my trestle. It is the tail of a wye. The little stubs at the bottom of the bents are the remains of the original trestle.
Back to locomotive maintenance.
Steam locomotives need water...
...and sand, too...
This one needs to top-up the fuel supply before leaving town...
More locomotive servicing, please.
Paul says...Please show some loco servicing facilities.
Diesel locomotion is still relatively a new idea on the Dutchtown & Geismar, so the maintenance crews hurriedly set up this refuling station.
Lone Wolf and Santa FePlesae show me more industries.
Here's an oil refinery.
IMG_4576 (2) by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
Please show some loco servicing facilities.
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
Sunkist packing house surrounded by orange groves
Plesae show me more industries.
Dragon Products silos and batch plant on my layout
Show me more rail served industries
Garry asked for more rail served industries.
NYC ALCO S3 #874 switching. The reefer is destined for the team track where produce dealers await. The grain box car will be spotted on the Redwing Milling Co. siding.
More rail-served industries please.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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