TrainBoard Special Run - Thread #1

I would buy and run any car that you came up with as long as it was transition-era with roofwalks and so forth, and 40' long. I might even go for a 50' car.

I think the length is critical. Anyone can run a 40' car, but many people don't like to run longer cars due to small layout size. It just doesn't look right. And someone with a transition era layout can't run a modern car, either.

 

Seems most want a transition-era car, however as Chaya mentioned, they being a transition modeler can't use a modern car, however I'm the opposite, I model modern, so 99% of transition cars won't work for me

 

+1...on the modern

 

The same for me. It has to be a car that would work for the mid to late 1990's. Or at least is 50' in length and no roof walk so I could fudge it.

 

Given that Fotheringill and I are over 50yo fruitcakes I don't think that TB needs any more.
I'll go with anything offered and hope there is a $10 premium on the price.

 

Steve-

I am NOT a fruitcake. Perhaps a cupcake, doughnut, or apple turnover, certainly a pound cake, but never a fruitcake. Fruitcakes have the density of yet undiscovered elements and will drop right through the bottom of a standard box car. I have oft been described as sharp, witty, charming, debonaire, graceful, bright, underachieving, but never dense.

 

I second Chaya's points. So make it transition-era, please.

 

Point taken though it is fascinating how both of us have been described in the same manner.

 

Yep. Anyone can use an old boxcar. Make it into a storage unit and put it in someone's back yard (we have lots of those around here) or in a railroad's yard. Turn it into a derelict old depot like the one in Otowi. Set it off to one side of the tracks and weather the heck out of it, like the one up by the Cascade tunnel. Make it into a clubhouse for model railroaders. Make it into an old tool car.
A modern car, on the other hand, is completely useless to someone with a transition era layout. Many of the modern cars can't even be used on 70's and 80's layouts.

 

I'd use an old box car as a museum piece moving to it's new location.

 

As true as that is...Modern guys CANT RUN an old wooden boxcar with rookwalks on a 2000+ pike. Then again...If some of ya are like me...as long as it gots wheels and rolls and will hookup...its rolling on my layout. I dont give a hoot about 'Prototypical' or 'Era Gendered' anything...LMAO!!!

 

But I'm not going to pay $30+ for a car that is going to sit as scenery. No way in no how will I.

As for making it a tool car, it would have to fit the RR I model, so it would need to be either BN or a predecessor, I can't use an old ATSF car as a tool car on an early 90s era BN layout.

 

Yup, there will only be a few who are happy with it.

Back when nscale.org did a car, I pushed for a run of decals...do decals, then we could do contest etc to see how people made them work.

Well they pushed for an MT car, one with a roofwalk and just can't justify it on my layout, therefore I never got one and to this day have no plans on getting one. Its been 3 or 4 years since the cars were released from MT and they still have just shy of 100 cars left unsold, out of the initial run of 300.

So there is also that to think about, MT requires a minimum of 300 cars to be made, whatever is picked, the person putting up the money is going to want all 300 sold. Something else to think about.

 

GREAT idea, Nick!

 

My first choice is a 25000 series modern car. But my second choice would be the series that is about 60s era. High brake wheel and no roofwalk. Being a CSX era person, i could live with an "old" car like that.

 

I also like a car type with high brake wheel and roofwalk removed. I can always add one to back date it some.