40' gondolas

Hi

Does anyone in Z do basic 40' gondolas, hopefully with plain rather than the pressed 'dreadnought' ends ?

Cheers

Ben

 

Hey, welcome Ben!! The only ones I know of are the Micro-Trains version. It's available in a few roadnames.

 

And they are long out of production. I spoke a few months ago with Joe at MTL. They have no plans to re-release them. Seems the mold for the chassis is either very worn out or broken. You can find them on eBay for about $25 each.

John Bartolotto

 

Plus they are a 8 panel gondola, just like Atlas did in N scale. There are very few prototypes for it. On the Atlas forum a while back we could only find one prototype photo for this type a gondola, C&EI.

Still I do have one in Z scale:
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/772/Zlayout45.jpg

 

Chris,

Is that a photo of your layout? If so I really like the paint job you did on the Nansen Street Models 2 Story House. What colors did you use?

John Bartolotto

 

John,
Thanks. I still have to add glass and the chimney. I'm pretty sure that color was "Rail Brown", the trim is white.

 

Chris,

Looks really good!! Use Micro Marks Micro-GLAZE #80894 for the glass. Works great!

John

 

Oh the layout is sitting right next to me as I type. The summer is here and I spend more time outside latey so the layout work slows down.

 

oops double post somehow.

 

Thanks for the advice. The one I want has 11 panels including doors - it's a Victorian Australian example . . .

Yes, it is kind of weird that they'd do an eight panel gondola and that it has so few US prototypes. Lots of the Atlas ones have been used by Aussie N scalers as we had a lot of eight panel types !

Cheers

Ben

 

Those Atlas N scale gondola sides make nice Z scale bridge girders! ; )