Well, here we have a new water car. This is completely scratch built from the ground up. The tank is actually a cut down shampoo bottle from my kid's shampoo, the tank top is a pen cap cut down and opened. Grab irons are various peices of wire/staples. Note that although this car is freshly painted by the "Best Water Company" it is an old car, look closely and you can still see the faint markings of the DSPPRR. John
One more Here is one more of the water car. It shows the comparison between the new car (on the right) and the first car I built last year (left). I have lots more pics of small projects I have been doing inbetween write up periods of the dissertation... John
John, I love your inginuity - staples for grab irons. Too cool. Excluding the trucks and couplers, was the cost of this project under a buck? I have some B-mann trucks I bought a while back. Maybe I should build something. Eric
Yeah, it is really something. I saw that bottle of shampoo in the bath tub and it just struck me that it could be a large water tank (Those kids had the cleanest hair ever over the next couple of days!). Stuff I always put in my parts box are simply shapes. Round tubes, like the pen cap for instance. They may lay there for years, then suddenly they become very useful. I would say that the cost was somewhere around five bucks really with the dry-transfer lettering, paint, and wood for the car body. Anyhow, it was a ton of fun and quick. I think it was done in about three hours. John
Interesting how you can look at something for a long time, and then suddenly, out of nowhere, inspiration clicks. Boxcab E50
