Scratch Built Rolling Stock

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Another rescue from the junkbox...  The donors came from Ed's bottom drawer.  They must have risen from the bottom getting ready for the big move today.


Here's the result of a few hours of labor, and a bunch of stuff I had laying around:


Improvements include:
Removal of some cast on details,
addition of a Gold Medal Models brake wheel and separate ladders,
removal of odd sidewalls,
modifications to underframe to lower the car close to 2 scale feet,
installation of MT body mount couplers,
installation of Roller Bearing trucks with metal wheels (Con-Cor trucks from the junkbox.  The wheels had already been lifted for another project.)
Flanges turned down for c55 track operation (wheels were old darkened metal pizza cutters, I believe from a Life Like car.  I chocked the axle in the Dremel and had at them with a file.)
paint and decals
weathered deck.

So, the only "new" parts were the ladders, brake wheel, and couplers.

Lee

I knew those would turn into something awesome.

[fcnrwy]

This train is not Rolling Stock, but it is scratch built.
I wish I had this kind of time now!!!

This is a scaled-down version of a P811 Track Renewal Train.   I spied this many years ago on a VHS tape on Maintenance of Way equipment.  And destroyed the tape in the process of replaying over and over in getting the details.
The photos are taken on my layout, during my Trainfest Openhouse last weekend.  This thing hadn't seen the light of day in ten years!!

Overall train


Business-end of train.


I still need to add stacks of concrete and old wooden ties to complete this thing.

Jerry G.

[Chris333]

I can't think of anything right off, but I do have this photo that is all scratchbuilt:

[James Costello]

I still need to add stacks of concrete and old wooden ties to complete this thing.

Jerry G.

Jerry, I always love how "finished" your layout looks - can you give us a tour of the layout, perhaps in another thread?

[Catt]

My contribution to the "Unfinished Scratchbuilt File"



Details are,

Car is a 70' Woodchip bethgon in Z scale

At this point everything except the ladders and brass weight are from Evergreen.Ladders are from RS Laser.

Car is unfinished at this point because nobody apparently wants to take my money (locally) for a 6 pack of Full Throttle's Z scale trucks.I want to do 7 more of these,then do 48 coal bethgons.

[fcnrwy]

J Costello -   Thanks,  a long Thanksgiving weekend is coming up.  I will see what I can do..


Jerry G.

[John]

My contribution to the "Unfinished Scratchbuilt File"



Details are,

Car is a 70' Woodchip bethgon in Z scale

At this point everything except the ladders and brass weight are from Evergreen.Ladders are from RS Laser.

Car is unfinished at this point because nobody apparently wants to take my money (locally) for a 6 pack of Full Throttle's Z scale trucks.I want to do 7 more of these,then do 48 coal bethgons.

http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1124446
These were used by Waste Management up until recently to haul trash here in Md

[sirenwerks]

My contribution to the "Unfinished Scratchbuilt File"



Details are,

Car is a 70' Woodchip bethgon in Z scale

At this point everything except the ladders and brass weight are from Evergreen.Ladders are from RS Laser.

Car is unfinished at this point because nobody apparently wants to take my money (locally) for a 6 pack of Full Throttle's Z scale trucks.I want to do 7 more of these,then do 48 coal bethgons.

http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1124446
These were used by Waste Management up until recently to haul trash here in Md

What are they using now to run to Virginia with?

[Bob Bufkin]

Believe this is one.  From last summer at Annapolis Jct.

[Catt]

Anybody got any links to the covers that were used on these cars.The only info I've found so far is "these cars can be fitted with covers for trash hauling"

[John]

Anybody got any links to the covers that were used on these cars.The only info I've found so far is "these cars can be fitted with covers for trash hauling"

I have pics somewhere .. but IRC they were one pice, like a pick up truck cover ..

[John]

Anybody got any links to the covers that were used on these cars.The only info I've found so far is "these cars can be fitted with covers for trash hauling"

I have pics somewhere .. but IRC they were one pice, like a pick up truck cover ..

best i can do right now is this ..

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qhn8798m10tn&scene=25243017&lvl=1&sty=b&where1=Jessup%2C%20MD

[Bob Bufkin]

Don't forget to model all the birds! 

[sirenwerks]

I like the old green WM scheme better. The last thing modern trains need is more grey.

[Mark5]

My contribution to the "Unfinished Scratchbuilt File"



Details are,

Car is a 70' Woodchip bethgon in Z scale

This looks pretty cool!  Might inspire me to scratch one of these:



Mark