Yessir sits there today, along with a heavy weight car and a baggage with Express trucks under it. Look a bit strange with those little trucks under and old HW car.
Do you have any photos of them? I love Mow equipment and how they seem to just build some frankenstine of a car to do a job Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk
A progress photo, the slot looking things on the bottom are for stowage of the wooden timbers for cribbing for the derrick out riggers. They carry a lot of wood 6X6 or 8x8's, also some kinda wooden pads the cribbing sits on, The spreader bars and cable rigging lays in the alley between to long boxes on top the flat car, trucks and wheel sit atop those long boxes too, pretty busy up there.
I see an exhaust system which looks like something we might expect for a generator. Is that it? If so, powers what? Perhaps welding equipment?
I think so too, power for welders, jacks, air compressors, lights and other stuff too. A very interesting and unique car.
This one looks a lot different from the idler car in the Bachmann set! It looks great. Is the base an 89' TOFC car?
Yes it is, sorry for so long in responding. Here is the car more complete with a bunch of scratch built parts and pieces. Wooden timbers extra trucks, wheels and all, managed to weather it up just a little bit too.
Hi Tom, as usual you have a masterpiece! The details are amazing. Thanks for posting the pictures. Hopefully we will see run in one of your QA&P videos.
I got some more work done on my D&RGW wreck train, I finished up a model a Dining car X3277, that still sits down the road from me. cut and spliced a baggage car X3220 to match some photos. I had to scratch build the steps, smoke stacks added Calscale brake details too. The prototype pic X3277 MW My rendition in HO scale The baggage/tool car X3220MW proto pic Model Thanks for looking
I like how the idler car has different size wheels handy in storage. A nice touch to break things up.
I wanted to have a 40' MW boxcar for this wreck train. This one was in the used pile so I decided to rescue it.