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[blu097]

I am planning to build an O scale intermodal layout any help out there would be appreciated

[DPD1]

Your question got my thinking, so I started looking around and spotted the Atlas line of intermodal O scale cars. They look nice, but geez... How do you O Scale guys afford this stuff.

Dave
Los Angeles, CA
-DPD Productions - Home of the TrainTenna RR Monitoring Antenna-
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[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by DPD1

Your question got my thinking, so I started looking around and spotted the Atlas line of intermodal O scale cars. They look nice, but geez... How do you O Scale guys afford this stuff.

Dave
Los Angeles, CA
-DPD Productions - Home of the TrainTenna RR Monitoring Antenna-
http://eje.railfan.net/dpdp/

BUDGET? SCRIMP?
Scratchbuild?[:)]

[Anonymous]

<quote> "how do you guys afford this stuff?"</quote>

join a Model Railroad club. gives more room, too. (a Texas hauling 60 cars on the flat and straight is an awesome spectacle even at 1:48)

you'll notice that a lot of people are going to O scale narrow guage-- bigger equipment on the same curves as HO. But the cost is still a little hard to stomach sometimes.

as for intemodal equipment, it depends on the era-- Atlas has some nice die-cast TOFC equipment for a manageable price. You'll probably have to convert it to two rail and shim the couplers, though. (atlas sells the parts on their website) Stay away trom the Atlas 2-rail motive power, though-- we've been having trouble of late. (their SW-9s are decent runners, but they tend to burn up circuit boards. The rest of the stuff is mechanically crap.)