Four more. My favorite place. Home made decals lifted from a digital photo.. Atlas 48' Pines trailer. CR England Trucking. Homemade decals lifted from a digital photo. Atlas 40' shell. Swift. Home made decals. Logo downloaded from the Swift website. Atlas 40' shell. WR Grace. Not mine, actually. I purchased it on TrainStore. Atlas 48' Pines trailer shell.
Looking really good Flash! I can't wait to get my Intermodal Yard in and start on some trailers myself. I will be using this thread as a guide. That green tractor cab....I got one on EBay sometime ago. Yours is the first one I have seen like it.
Your homemade decals look great, Flash. Much better than what I have come up with. I'm modeling an earlier period and finding useable side photos is difficult. Many trucking photos are made in the Beebe 3/4 view style. But I have found a few, even some from old trucking company stationery. Enough to keep from having idle hands. Ben
Trailers These are all inkjet printed decals..... I think custom trailers are a very convincing way to invoke the image of a specific time and place, much like a billboard to store sign.
Very good ones, too! Great job. How did you do the Thibodeau with the red? I try to stick to very light backgrounds, preferably white or gray. I have considered printing on white decal paper and using the decal paper for the whole side of the truck. I took pictures of the trucks above myself. I was able to get a side photo with my own camera, so I didn't have the 3/4 angle problem. Very true. You sure have some nice ones. :thumbs_up:
Seven DI Scratch and Dent Deluxe Innovations offers "Scratch and Dent" 53 foot trailers, seven shells and five running gear parts. (The package costs about 20 US$.) I scratch built the roof and the floor to the two trailers that are upside down; still need to add the wheels on those. The other five were assembled from the DI Scratch and Dent package. The extra trailer in the rear is a 48 foot Atlas. Now to select some decals.
Axles on 20-28 Foot Pup Trailers Do pup trailers have double axles on the rear? I have searched for pictures and I can't find any with double axles. I can remember seeing pictures of some with double axles, but I believe that is rear. Is this correct? Thanks. Is there a time frame associated with this when double axles would have been common? The old Atlas 20' trailers (TOFC trailers) all have double axles but the new, more modern Athearn 28 footers have single axles.
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/trucks.htm Type the company name in the search box OR just look around. LOTS of two axle pup trailers......
I couldn't find any two axle dry van types in my search. I did find many two axle tankers or open hopper types, but they haul a heavier load, I'm sure. I'll look more tomorrow. Thanks for the help. Hank's has a bunch of pictures; almost as many as train guys. He has a lot of contributors, too.
Flash, Most of the pup trailers today are going to have a single axle. The 28-foot pup is the most common, but there are still some 24-foot and even 20-foot ones around. I felt the Atlas TOFC trailer looked better if you modified it by removing the first axle. You will also need to reposition the landing gear on those trailers to have room for the tractor. Here is one I "converted" in the early 1970s: It is rather crude by today's standards, but it may be passable as a background model. Carter
The landing gear needs to be in the "up" postion when the trailer is hooked up to a tractor. Not easy with the Atlas trailers. Ben
I know, but I decided a long time ago to have all landing gear down so I can put the trailers outside my industries w/o tractors. I also put them on the TOFC flat cars as I move the trailers around a lot. Still, I could have one or two with the gear up for photographs. Now this is going to make me worry about this? :dont-know: I'm so weak! :thinking:
