Of Trash and Trains and Availabilty

Grey One May 27, 2011

  1. Grey One

    Grey One TrainBoard Supporter

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    The thread on the Atlas "trash train" cars:
    Finally! N Scale trash cars!! - TrainBoard.com
    Got me to thinking that there are other types of trash cars / trash carriers of which would make great unit trains.
    For example the"Cape Cod Trash Train" run by the Providence and Worcester:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ntYULPGyl4
    Uses shorter cars. They appear to be some form of "high sided 65'? gondola?". It runs from Yarmouth, MA (on the cape), to a power plant / incinerator near Fall River, (I think).

    Does anyone know what those cars are or if a variation is available? It looks like a bathtub gondola could be modified to approximate these.
     
  2. Mike C

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    Looks to me like a standard bathtub. Could be ones that were origionaly made for coke service, with the high sides. I am guessing that they bought then used ? .....Mike


    PS as long as you don't model the smell..... :D
     
  3. greatdrivermiles

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    Where I live (Renton WA) they run double stack cars with stacked open top 40 foot containers.
     
  4. David Leonard

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    What I could use are EPIC spine cars & containers. I'd see them on Conrail in sets of 2-5 cars, not unit trains. They were run in regular mixed freights.
     
  5. prbharris

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    We do the Trash Spine Cars

    http://www.nscalekits.co.uk/TRASHSPINE.html

    that EPIC run. You might want to try some of these!

    Peter

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  6. Steve Mann

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    I always chuckle at EPIC containers when I think they were named for the way it smells. EPIC. haha.
     
  7. steamghost

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    RE: Cape Cod cars.
    Mass Coastal Energy Train
    Nice photos here. Two show the extensions that being added, the car originally with UNPX reporting marks. Then it started out as a Procor leasing car, built by them. This is it, I think:
    Intermountain (China) Bathtub Coal Gondola

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYRa4fLItL8&feature=related
    These cars on the Bay Colony have lids, too, different from the Mass Coastal ones.

    You can see the Fine N style tarped sludge containers being used for contaminated dirt ("dirty dirt") in trains on the SF Peninsula.

    I've also seen and smelled the Napa trash train with what looks like standard containers in double stack/well cars.

    Looks like you can modify anything suitable, mix or match, if you want to freelance.
     

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