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Post by spookyac47 on Jun 24, 2012 9:10:00 GMT -8
Many, many years ago, I was in the U. S. Air Force and assigned to a group at a base in Central California. I worked on, operated, and traveled with mobile flight simulators for B-52 and KC-135 aircraft. On the KC-135 mobile simulator, the crew car was a former military guard car. On my list of things to do, some day, is to model the cars. These are the trucks that were under the crew car  Any suggestions as to who might make a reasonable representation of this truck in HO scale? Thank You |
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Post by onequiknova on Jun 24, 2012 9:33:45 GMT -8
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Post by riogrande on Jun 24, 2012 11:36:29 GMT -8
I remember seeing some interesting train cars at bases as a kid, my dad was a navigator aboard KC97's, KC135's, C141's C121's and C133's.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2012 11:47:21 GMT -8
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Post by edwardsutorik on Jun 24, 2012 11:48:50 GMT -8
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Post by spookyac47 on Jun 24, 2012 18:25:34 GMT -8
Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, never did any measurements on the cars. At the time, the only thing I really cared about was the side benefits of the job. We had multiple sets of cars in service and each pair of cars provided training, on a monthly rotating basis to three Air Force bases. This meant the cars had to be moved via commercial railroad carriers. Two of the crew got to stay with the cars while the rest of the crew flew home after a 30 day TDY (temporary duty assignment). The two riders would be on the road for 3-5 days, sometimes in motion, sometimes parked waiting for a pickup from a train going in the right direction. Our cars were always coupled directly behind the locomotives. I would always chat with the train crews and some would ask if I wanted to ride "up front" . . . I never turned down those opportunities. By the time I got into the program, our cars were hauled in freight trains since passenger service had been cut back so much and routes eliminated.  |
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Post by onequiknova on Jun 24, 2012 20:50:47 GMT -8
The Athearn truck with the nubs cut off gets my vote. It's got the correct amount of coil springs showing. The other two have too many. None of them are roller bearing, unfortunately.
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Post by diburning on Jun 26, 2012 23:24:41 GMT -8
The Walthers Superliner trucks look similar.
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Post by spookyac47 on Jul 4, 2012 9:20:17 GMT -8
I remember seeing some interesting train cars at bases as a kid, my dad was a navigator aboard KC97's, KC135's, C141's C121's and C133's. This photo was taken at Fairchild AFB, WA (maybe Dec 72). It is one of the B-52 mobile flight simulator car sets. We were between two buildings, one of them was the base commissary. We had a small leak in the car heater that would drip the water/antifreeze mix into the combustion chamber and when the heater started up, the fuel burning would create a cloud of smoke and steam from the water and anti-freeze. Folks called the base fire department several times. We explained we had parts on order and they finally stopped responding. I got to remove the combustion chamber, replace the water tube assembly in the chamber and reinstall it - in December. The black stenciled signs on the end and side of the car stated "DO NOT HUMP"  |
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Post by mlehman on Jul 6, 2012 6:07:26 GMT -8
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