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Post by marknycfan on Sept 1, 2021 14:48:05 GMT -8
...that was made by some other company before.
McKean became Accurail & some went to Bowser, Ramax hopper became Detail Associates and then...who picked up E&B Valley/Robin's rails standard gauge kits, any real information out there?
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Post by Christian on Sept 1, 2021 17:23:46 GMT -8
Accurail purchased some McKean products. Accurail has been around a long time but always seems to fly under the noise. They also picked up their auto carriers, but I don't remember the original company. |
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Post by dti406 on Sept 1, 2021 19:08:04 GMT -8
Other Front Range/Mckeen cars went to Red Caboose and were improved.
E&B Valley/Robbins Rails went to Eastern Car Works and Con-Cor. The narrow gauge stuff just seams to have disappeared.
Rick Jesionowski
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Post by autocoach on Sept 6, 2021 7:24:47 GMT -8
Rib Sided Cars was acquired by Accurail and the HO unique Milwaukee single and double door slightly modified and released in quite a few different MILW lettering schemes.
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Post by fr8kar on Sept 6, 2021 8:44:18 GMT -8
Accurail purchased some McKean products. Accurail has been around a long time but always seems to fly under the noise. They also picked up their auto carriers, but I don't remember the original company. I believe those started out as Custom Rail kits, which were fully enclosed bilevel and trilevel autoracks. This acquisition resulted in the open autorack kits and the TOFC flatcar kits. From what I understand, the flatcar was supposed to represent one of the rebuilt low deck flatcars that had the side sills removed and reattached. The prototype cars started off looking like this from the end view: \¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯/ After the conversion they looked like this: \__________/ This caused the tops of the side sills to be wider which resulted in the rack being full width rather than tapering inward at the bottom where it attaches to the flatcar. That was great for the prototype since it increased access to the trucks and running gear for inspections, air tests and repairs. On the model it didn't really matter how the deck was modeled (if it was modeled at all) since you can't really see the deck of an enclosed autorack. The problem with the model occurred when the deck was molded between the tops of the side sills creating a deck that's too wide. That really became a problem when the autorack was offered as an open style and the flatcar was offered on its own. Until the Walthers and Atlas flush deck flatcars came out the Accurail model was the best option unless you wanted to cut in 4'-4" scale segments of a spare Athearn all-purpose flat into halved Athearn flatcars (did a few of those back in the day!). If you could overlook the width problem they really weren't bad cars. |
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Post by marknycfan on Sept 6, 2021 10:01:00 GMT -8
Other Front Range/Mckeen cars went to Red Caboose and were improved. E&B Valley/Robbins Rails went to Eastern Car Works and Con-Cor. The narrow gauge stuff just seams to have disappeared. Rick Jesionowski Rick which car did Con-Cor get? |
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Post by dti406 on Sept 6, 2021 11:41:41 GMT -8
Other Front Range/Mckeen cars went to Red Caboose and were improved. E&B Valley/Robbins Rails went to Eastern Car Works and Con-Cor. The narrow gauge stuff just seams to have disappeared. Rick Jesionowski Rick which car did Con-Cor get? The 60’ Greenville Auto Parts car and ex-AHM 3 bay Covered Hopper (we all thought it was a 2893CF car but it scales out to about a 3210CF car.) Rick Jesionowski |
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