http://www.zcentralstation.com/index.php?view=search&option=com_joomgallery&Itemid=156 That link should take you to Alvaro's personal photo gallery to see all of the fine Z scale vehicles he has craftfully created, both past and present. Scroll down and you will find many photos of his brass etched triple deck opened auto carrier!!! Hobo Tim
Did he ever offer them? As far as I remember it was his plan at the time, but I never heared aything again....
Yup!!! My friend Jeffrey White has either 6 or 8 sets of them. I know of one being put together and the rest to follow!!! To create the detail the etchings are built up in layers. This makes it look nice but also very heavy. I do not know how well they run yet. But they do look nice. This would be best if it were made of injected plastic. Resin might be ok if you can create the detail but they will be very delicate. Hobo Tim
Hello Z people!! Yes i was almost one year without working in Z scale, some personal problem (already solved, thanks) and almost because of my little girl who takes my wife and i most of our time. Anyway, i hope to be back soon with some new cars, during this year i had time to test some new products, resin, silicon etc and the miraculous hydroshrink! About the tri-level autorack, by my side it works fine, but i don't have a big layout to run with it, yes i had to build 2 times the resin undercarriage, because the first model had the center of gravity too high, so in some curves the autorack derails (or fall down) i resolved it with a bigger and lower undercarriage, that i have tested with the autorack full and empty of my resin cars (wich is very heavy more or less 12 cars at this scale) but in my layout worked fine. But i must confess that i haven't received any feedback or informations from the people who bought me some, so i only speak about my own experience and tests. Any question that i can answer, feel free to ask. Thanks Friendly yours Álvaro
These were a doozie! I put one together for a friend of mine once. It is a heavy car once it's built. The center of gravity without vehicles is very high due to the weight. It also needs the long coupler trucks like that of AZL's.
Going through my box of kits, I have found two of Alvaro's tri-level open racks, if interested let me know.
Here in the near future I will be placing an order for more vehicle loading ramps. I do plan on trying to keep a small stock of them for future auto carrier releases. Tim
