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Post by James Ashley on Dec 5, 2023 12:48:14 GMT -8
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Post by cera2254 on Dec 5, 2023 13:24:27 GMT -8
Yikes $38 retail for the boxcars and GSC flatcars…
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Post by Mr. Trainiac on Dec 5, 2023 13:30:55 GMT -8
The GSC Bulkhead flat is a cash crop for Walthers. I feel like I see this model all over the place. Is that just me?
The BNSF paint scheme appears to be mostly correct. There are a few slight variations in the stake pocket locations, but that's pretty standard for Mainline cars. The prototype also has some additional blocking on the deck, similar to the Atlas F89J Pipe Load flatcars. These cars appear to be in steel ingot service. Most photos show them with steel rod loads, so the pipe loading hardware is appropriate. However, these additional beams are not represented on the model.
I think it would make a pretty straightforward kitbash or 3D printing project though. It wouldn't require very much modification to the car, and you can preserve the original paint easily.
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Post by wagnersteve on Dec 5, 2023 14:29:50 GMT -8
Dec.5, 2023, about 5:25 EST
The main info I'd like to have that isn't in these announcements is the approximate years when the various Milwaukee Road paint schemes on the rib-sided cabooses were in service. Can any expert on that railroad specify that? I want to report that in what I'll write for possible use in the Bridge Line Historical Society Bulletin. I already have one Walthers caboose of this type from an earlier run.
Walthers is right that some of these went to other railroads. Years ago I saw one in use, repainted and used as the last car in a rail-grinding train, belonging to Loram, if my memory is correct, on MBTA trackage at South Acton, Mass. that had formerly been part of the Fitchburg Railroad and later the Boston & Maine. Its rear platform had a large spray hose for dousing any fires that the rail grinding might have started.
I had a great deal of fun with the kits for the 53' GSC flatcars that Walthers used to make. They came with parts that allowed them easily to be built as plain flats, with a piggyback hitch, or with the bulkheads.
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Post by riogrande on Dec 5, 2023 15:05:28 GMT -8
ExactRail supposedly had the D&RGW GSC bulkheads in the works before they were bought out by ScaleTrains. Hmmm.
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Post by hudsonyard on Dec 6, 2023 18:14:33 GMT -8
well i can confidently say i dont think i'd ever see a st. maries river railroad hack RTR
i'm a sucker for that B&O blue cushion underframe scheme, i'll get one if they cross my path.
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Post by cpr4200 on Dec 6, 2023 18:21:53 GMT -8
Those MILW cabooses are very reasonably priced, given what Tangent, Rapido, and Genesis hacks are retailing for. Probably not as detailed, but they look well proportioned and nicely painted.
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Post by cnw4251 on Dec 6, 2023 18:51:40 GMT -8
Anyone know, off the top of his or her head, if these MILW cabooses are more or less equivalent to the Platinum Line releases of several years ago?
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Dec 6, 2023 18:58:13 GMT -8
The colours on the St Maries River caboose are wrong. The roof and ends should be much darker, the white should be a very light tan called "fawn". Lettering is off too -- look at the shape of the Rs and the thickness of the Es.  STMA Caboose #996 by Zack W, on Flickr  |
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Post by cpr4200 on Dec 6, 2023 21:58:29 GMT -8
Ted Curphey says the blue should be black.
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Post by onequiknova on Dec 7, 2023 5:08:50 GMT -8
Ted Curphey says the blue should be black. The last pic in this auction is a caboose. It definitely could be black. Ebay |
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Post by packer on Dec 7, 2023 5:36:49 GMT -8
Is it supposed to be really, really dark blue or black? either way walther's is way off.
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Post by Baikal on Dec 7, 2023 6:24:12 GMT -8
Is it supposed to be really, really dark blue or black? either way walther's is way off.
Dark blue-gray. Walther's color is way too light of a blue, not close at all.
Lot's of photos on teh web confirm.
Compare the blue to loco parts that are known to be black- frame, trucks...
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