dehusman All in HO: 34' trussrod boxcar, both right and left opening doors. PRR class GD hopper bottom gon. Camelback boiler superstructure to fit on Roundhouse 2-8-0, 4-4-0, 2-6-0 underframes.
All in HO:
34' trussrod boxcar, both right and left opening doors.
PRR class GD hopper bottom gon.
Camelback boiler superstructure to fit on Roundhouse 2-8-0, 4-4-0, 2-6-0 underframes.
Ditto on all three (again) !!!
Jim
dehusman... All in HO: 34' trussrod boxcar, both right and left opening doors.
Accurail's version of the Dominion Fowler boxcar is 37' long, but you could easily remove a portion of the doors to get it down to 34'. It wouldn't be too difficult to add truss rods, and then glue-on some suitable doors.
I bought a bunch of them, but removed the cast-in-place doors on many of them, replacing them with various doors from other HO scale cars. I didn't redo any of them as double-door cars, though.
Here's one with the original doors...
...not sure where these doors are from, but my guess is Intermountain...
...another mystery door...
...this one's likely from Red Caboose, but could be from Train Miniature, too...
This one was a Model Die Casting reefer kit, but I decided to make it into a Southern SU double sheathed truss rod boxcar. The Southern Railway had close to 15,000 of these cars built between 1922 and 1926...
The underbody is cast metal, but I added some strip styrene to create a more robust looking centre-sill. I don't recall if the queen posts were part of the kit or merely from my supply of "stuff", but I used monofilament fishing line for the truss rods, along with turnbuckles from Tichy...
The bracing for the queenposts was built separately onto the lower edges of the car's sides....just in case it became necessary to remove the underbody in order to add weight...
The cars' Hutchin ends were scratchbuilt...
...as was the car's roof...
(the original roof was scribed boards, similar to those on the sides of the car)
While this MDC kit was also a 37'-er, a small car like this would be very easy to modify into a doubledoor 34'-er.
Wayne
Santa Fe's 53'6" rib-sided, drop bottom gondolas, class GA-82/84/87/92/96 (all were similar). Over 2000 of these cars were built throughout the 1950s and they operated into the 90s.
Pennsylvania RR X23. They had over 7,000 of them but no one had really ever made a good plastic model of one. I'd prefer a kit as opposed to an RTR model. From that, one could also kitbash the war emergency cabooses that they were also used for.
dlm