The video is located on YouTube at:
http://youtu.be/k5rzmaMzb_c
Because 1950's freight trains usually consisted mainly of 40' or 50' boxcars, with an occasional tank car or hopper, I decided to show you some of the unique cars in the consist rather than every car in the train.
From Fox Valley Models, a Milwaukee Road long ribbed box car, "Route of the Electrified Olympian" slogan. Nothing done to it yet, just a unique boxcar from the MILW.
Here we see three Micro Train 50' gondolas, each carrying a load of pipes. All three gondolas are heavily weathered and the pipe loads are from Hays Brothers.
Micro Trains 50' flat with load from Chooch Enterprises.
Stock MT 50' boxcar. Mildly weathered
Baltimore and Ohio USRA Steel Boxcar with overlapping flat panel roof, lightly weathered.
Three Texaco 36' tank cars from Micro Trains. Weathered with rust colored accents along the top of the tank car cylinder.
That's a nice looking train. I wish Kato or Intermountain would do another run of the cigar-band F7s so I can get some (without having to paint them myself).
ReplyDeleteI see you've mounted MTL end-rails and chimney on that caboose. Did you add a shim of styrene to the ends of the caboose, to mount the end-rails?
The Atlas caboose was an extensive rebuild. The only thing stock on the caboose is the body shell. I painted and decaled the Atlas shell and mounted it on the Micro Trains frame, including trucks end rail, etc. I did this for about a dozen ATSF cabooses. I had put the end rails on the Atlas framed cars initially, but was really disappointed in operation as well as appearance. You can find a lot of MT cabooses at swap meets, as I did.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike. I have one Atlas caboose modified that way, but I've also modified about a dozen more Atlas cabooses by adding the MTL end-rails. I extended the frame length a little using 0.060" strip styrene at each end, in order for the ladders to be vertical, but they look fine now. I've also added MTL trucks with medium length shanks.
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