Since there really isn't a railcar thread.. Anyhow, by special , it could mean a car that you built, a car that was bought years ago by your father, or any car that has special meaning or a back story. This pickle car is a mix of kits and scratch.. sort of. The truss rod flatcar is a Fine N Scale car kit combined with an American Model Builder pickle rack. Special because in N Scale they are pretty rare and I built this car.
Does Nn3 count? I used a Showcase Miniatures flat car kit and scratch built the tank. Very fun project.
I will start with this logging caboose. All of my rolling stock is scratch built. This is the smallest so far.
I built this canteen car to eliminate my apprehension about adding an M-T coupler to my WM 2-8-0. It's kitbashed from a Bachmann coal tender and a Bachmann oil tender and has a recessed Rapido coupler in front for close coupling. It works nicely and I think canteen cars are kind of cool anyway.
Some years back when I was modeling the SP&S I built the bridge and building gang car from photos in an SP&S book.The car was originally a 50 footer and has since been cut down to a 40 footer. Bridge and Building Crew Rack and material car by John Moore posted May 31, 2006 at 6:03 PM A little later I built a Dimi Trains rotary plow and decided to make it work. The tender is the electrical pick-up and the rotary has a working headlight. Rotary by John Moore posted Mar 15, 2013 at 8:23 PM Also built my own ballast cars for Sabot Stone works. Ballast cars by John Moore posted May 28, 2006 at 9:48 PM And since Climax locos are priced out of my pocket book I built my own, RLW Class A Climax conversion to N from Nn3 by John Moore posted Oct 19, 2012 at 9:18 PM
John did you build these with Z F units following the instructions and addendum to convert to std ga?
Only one was an Nn3 scale metal casting and that was converted by removing excess metal, mounting it on my own frame and then powering it with a Bmann 44 tonner mechanism. The other two are totally scratch built and are on Bmann 70 ton chassis.
I'll bet that was an E-ticket ride in the 1-truck logging caboose, bouncing around on the tail of a logging train! Yee haw! I thought about a humorous Texas and Pacific rotary snow plow. Like an ad for an antique French battle rifle, "Never fired, dropped once." Nice work, everyone!
Trainboard Special Run Boxcar 03.07.13 ! The car itself doesnt have any TB markings...BUT...if you look real close at the backside of the insert...at the bottom...it does say (in small lettering) that it is a special run for Trainboard It's on the layout but a 'static display' at the team track in a constant frozen state of being unloaded...as it doesnt fit my era. .
Another series of cars built off of the Bmann 34 foot old time flat. SP&S Pulpwood cars by John Moore posted May 28, 2006 at 9:43 PM SP&S Pulpwood cars by John Moore posted May 28, 2006 at 9:37 PM The ends and deck are styrene and the wood is from some dead azalea bushes a modeling trick I learned from a master modeler for real logs. I built this car some years ago honoring the International Brotherhood of Cabbage Stackers a logging group I used to belong to. IBCS drop bottom covered gondola. by John Moore posted May 28, 2006 at 5:52 PM
Bought two pickle cars wood kits and then decided to build a shorter version so once again took two Bmann 34 foot old time flats with the water tanks. and added tops and structural framework using wood and styrene. I also changed out the trucks to MTs and removed the truss rods. Since I have a port on the layout with a fish cannery the cars are labeled for pickled herring and salted codfish. The fish are transported off layout to a facility that cans them. 100_0544-1 by John Moore posted Sep 6, 2020 at 2:00 PM Here are two pile drivers one uses a Dimitrains crane the other is from scratch and their accompanying work flats. Overhead of Pile drivers and tenders. by John Moore posted Jun 1, 2006 at 5:54 PM The SP&S had a car for carrying a dozer and I modeled that plus a flat with the unloading ramp. Dozer car. by John Moore posted Jun 1, 2006 at 4:46 PM The bridge and building gangs heavy timber car and supply car. Top shot of timber car by John Moore posted May 31, 2006 at 5:55 PM I ended up re-purposing the 250 ton crane, the pile driver, and a burro crane that all used to be rail mounted into barge mounted equipment when the harbor was built on the layout. I now have a heavy lift salvage barge, a marine pile driver, and the burro crane is the dredge. The other vessel in the photo is a fuel lighter used to refuel vessels in the harbor. Fuel lighter, dredge and two barges. by John Moore posted Nov 29, 2014 at 2:46 PM
I think I may have posted this before. All scratch built for my pseudo narrow gauge railroad. Anything more than this looks to long.
Marty, what was shipped in MILW 8293? I believe the Reading used to have box cars with roof hatches and some type of hopper type doors for loads of cocoa going to Hershey beans.