Hi gang. I was just looking through one of my model train catalogs, and came across a sales ad and photo of a covered gondola. No offense to those that like them, but that's one type of car I can live without. To me, they look like a box car that's been crushed down...
So is there any type of rolling stock that you don't like ?.
Tracklayer
The Canadian style grain hoppers. They do nothing for me.
Flat cars and tankers are my favourites, although I like the N&W style coal hoppers. Boxcars are okay, too.
selector wrote: The Canadian style grain hoppers. They do nothing for me.Flat cars and tankers are my favourites, although I like the N&W style coal hoppers. Boxcars are okay, too.
Hi selector. Are you talking about the cylinderical hoppers ?.
bb4884 wrote:I have no idea why, but I hate tankers. Rolling Molotov cocktails if you ask me
Awww bb4884. Come on man... Tankers are among my favorites.
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Tracklayer wrote: selector wrote: The Canadian style grain hoppers. They do nothing for me.Flat cars and tankers are my favourites, although I like the N&W style coal hoppers. Boxcars are okay, too.Hi selector. Are you talking about the cylinderical hoppers ?.Tracklayer
Yes, Tracklayer, I don't like their looks. The don't have any "character".
I like all freight cars, they are all unique and serve a purpose. However, that doesn't mean I don't quesition the purpose of some of them. For example, ore cars, with their small size, I don't see the purpose if a larger car can have more capacity than the smaller car. I guess it has something to do with weight limitation along the lines they serve on, but still, not that I don't like them, they're just my least favorite.
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jeffrey-wimberly wrote:I dislike passenger cars, period. There are passenger cars on my layout. One is a baggage car set up as a storage building, the second is a dining car set up as a trackside diner and the third is an office car on a MoW train.
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Nope, I like them all. Some more than others, but if it fits my time period then it can go on my layout. And if anyone ever makes a Stilwell oyster car in S I'll get it, even though it really is too early for my time period.
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jecorbett wrote:Oh wait, you don't have modern day cabooses. My bad.
Oh wait, you don't have modern day cabooses. My bad.
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jasperofzeal wrote: However, that doesn't mean I don't quesition the purpose of some of them. For example, ore cars, with their small size, I don't see the purpose if a larger car can have more capacity than the smaller car. I guess it has something to do with weight limitation along the lines they serve on, but still, not that I don't like them, they're just my least favorite.
However, that doesn't mean I don't quesition the purpose of some of them. For example, ore cars, with their small size, I don't see the purpose if a larger car can have more capacity than the smaller car. I guess it has something to do with weight limitation along the lines they serve on, but still, not that I don't like them, they're just my least favorite.
The problem is really with the people, not the cars or track. Ore is usually much denser than the lading larger hoppers are designed around: coal. If coal hoppers were used for ore (and this has been tried) in short order the operators start filling the hoppers to the maximum volume rather than the rated load capacity, resulting in damage to the cars and track.
KL
I'd have to go with modern bathtub gons. Since I model the 60's, no problem on the layout. I just really dislike being overjoyed at getting stopped for a train and then disappointed when I see a hundred or so coal cars with no character and the only thing differenciating them is the car number.
Rick
Anything without "Southern" painted on it.
But seriously, I don't like Front Runners. They look funny. I like intermodal, but not them.
on the Front Runners....never liked 'em, never will.
Don Z.
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Any frieght car longer than 50'
Also-- Circus cars in ANY form.
BTW: For the FRONTRUNNER "fans."
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It's not that I don't like them, it's that the question, "Why don't you have a Bullet Train?" has gotten REALLY old!
The JNR Shinkansen (the only route where Bullet trains could be found in 1964) was (and is) a couple of mountain ranges south of my prototype area of interest. Even if it ran through the Kiso Valley I wouldn't model it. Different track gauge, dedicated (ugly) right-of-way, plus no valid reason to have a station - just a blur rocketing through every 30 (scale) minutes. BOORRING!!!
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - sans Bullet Trains)
I've seen WC use some old BN coal hoppers for ore. I also kinda like the CN grain hoppers. I Hate the really early caboses. I also hate the Electro Motives BL Locomotives. Those are rare locos. I've see them at Green Bay WI.
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Bill H. wrote: BTW: For the FRONTRUNNER "fans." http://www.rideuta.com/calendarAndNews/commuterRail/
Bill H., this is the Front Runner I was referring to....
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/932-39813
tomikawaTT wrote:It's not that I don't like them, it's that the question, "Why don't you have a Bullet Train?" has gotten REALLY old!The JNR Shinkansen (the only route where Bullet trains could be found in 1964) was (and is) a couple of mountain ranges south of my prototype area of interest. Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - sans Bullet Trains)
Well, how about adding a big billboard (with colorful 60s style Japanese supergraphics) telling everyone to take the 'Bullet train' to the Tokyo Summer Olympics (which was in October of 1964...those wacky Japanese and their Autumn Summer Olympics), perhaps with a route map which you can use to show those trouble-makers that the line does NOT run near the area you model.
Dan Stokes
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stokesda wrote:I don't know what they're called, but I've never been a fan of those "self-propelled" passenger cars - half Pullman, half subway engine. Yuck!
You know, I was never much of a keener for them either. They looked like part of a passenger consist that got cut out and a couple of kids somehow got it loose and were taking it for a ride with a slight grade accommodating them.
Last summer, I got to ride on the E&N Ry Dayliner that runs daily, 7/52, between Victoria and Courtenay. I must say, and perhaps it was due to the exposure and to learning a bit about its history, and maybe because I had walked many km of an abandoned right of way the previous summer to cross and photograph some trestles, that I warmed up to them. Also, when I am out in my garden, even though they are about 10 km away, when they sound their horns entering and leaving Courtenay, at the many crossings, it reminds me of the trip.
So, since Trainworld and other places are blowing them out, and that they seem to have good reviews....hmmmm. Dang, I wish you hadn't posted that.
Don Z wrote: Bill H. wrote: BTW: For the FRONTRUNNER "fans." http://www.rideuta.com/calendarAndNews/commuterRail/Bill H., this is the Front Runner I was referring to....http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/932-39813Don Z.
Hmmm... OK, I always thought of those as TOFC (trailer on flat car) Oh well, my bad. I'll go to my room now.
TA462 wrote:I don't really like the big 86' box cars.
I saw some HO versions of those at an LHS and I thought they where S gauge. They look WAY too big in model form compared to the prototypes.
Are you referring to doodlebugs or RDCs. I would agree with you on RDCs. They don't have a lot of character. But doodlebugs are another matter. They will be serving my branchline if and when I ever get it built. RMC even has a story about converting the Bachmann doodlebug to two way operation. Doodlebugs can serve as single car passenger trains on lightly traveled branclines and can even haul a coach or two and or freight cars. Typically they had a combine configuration with passenger seats in the rear, the baggage section up front. The would handle mail and express shipments as well. I think they are one of the most interesting pieces of equipment we can run and a great choice for small layouts.