Coolest N-scale model EVER!

[ljudice]

Why doesn't Kato or Atlas make one of these.  And look at the craftsmanship!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/N-SET-COCA-COLA-COKE-POP-SODA-TANKER-CAR-LIGHTER_W0QQitemZ260365396927QQihZ016QQcategoryZ486QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[wm3798]

That seller's a drip.
Lee

[TiVoPrince]

Didn't
Walthers (Ulrich?) way back when have a Oscale kit that you mounted a 12"=1foot 16-20oz can on trucks to get a 'fun' and 'toungue in cheek' tank car model...

[3rdrail]

Didn't
Walthers (Ulrich?) way back when have a Oscale kit that you mounted a 12"=1foot 16-20oz can on trucks to get a 'fun' and 'toungue in cheek' tank car model...

Yup, it was Walthers, back when they actually made things in Milwaukee. Used to put out a number of "fun" and "tongue in cheek" products. That ended when some folks with no sense of humor raked Walthers over the coals for the Penn Central Steam Locomotive Decal Set. I put some on a cheap plastic model of a Japanese C62 and it resided in my mother-in-law's home until she died. My daughter has it now, relettered NKP.  ;D ;D ;D

[Bob Bufkin]

I always liked the shorty heavyweight's with the single truck.  As for the PC steam.  PC and later Conrail did have some old steam tenders lettered for use in work train service.

[TiVoPrince]

Didn't
Walthers (Ulrich?) way back when have a Oscale kit that you mounted a 12"=1foot 16-20oz can on trucks to get a 'fun' and 'toungue in cheek' tank car model...

Yup, it was Walthers, back when they actually made things in Milwaukee. Used to put out a number of "fun" and "tongue in cheek" products. That ended when some folks with no sense of humor raked Walthers over the coals for the Penn Central Steam Locomotive Decal Set. I put some on a cheap plastic model of a Japanese C62 and it resided in my mother-in-law's home until she died. My daughter has it now, relettered NKP.  ;D ;D ;D

Thanks
for the confirmation.  I seem to recall a friend having two with oversize Fosters and Heineken cans sustituted for the standard US bodies living on his fireplace mantle...

[Dave Schneider]

I like the idea of using a flat car or gondola to deliver a rum and coke to an overworked yardmaster. You could use those little airplane sized bottles. I mean if you like that sort of thing.....

Best wishes, Dave

[Chulvis]

Looks like a job for.....




Works great on rolling stock too.

[delamaize]

Looks like a job for.....




Works great on rolling stock too.

Holy Shiz, I need one of those.

[davefoxx]

I always liked the shorty heavyweight's with the single truck.

Bob,

I remember those!  They were called the Oscar and the Piker, weren't they?

Dave

[Bob Bufkin]

I always liked the shorty heavyweight's with the single truck.

Bob,

I remember those!  They were called the Oscar and the Piker, weren't they?

Dave

Yep, that's what they were called.  At one time i was gonna try and make an N scale version.

[randgust]

I still have my HO Piker.  The Oscar was the observation.  Just as intended, my very first "craftsman" kit.  I think I did it when I was about 8.  Or at least it looks that way.

Back to the tank car.....

You have to realize that for all intents and purposes, that's all an LPG tank car is.  a 100-ton Bic lighter.  Without a spark wheel.   You can do the same thing to a Bic lighter in N, just mount it on trucks.

You do realize though that to operate this, you have to placard it as hazmat, keep it six cars from power and a caboose, and have your track inspected to FRA standards.

Don't forget the glow in the dark 'radioactive' cars for fun.

Some of the greatest model railroads have some of the most outrageous humor way in the corners.  Remember John Allen had a Stegosaurus as a mine switcher.  If you don't have a little something, somewhere, to make people chuckle, I think you're taking yourself just a little too seriously...

[Zox]

If you don't have a little something, somewhere, to make people chuckle, I think you're taking yourself just a little too seriously...

Like the description placard we place on MARRS's "McDonnell Loop" module at shows:

ABANDONED STYROFOAM QUARRY
modeled by Charlie Thompson
(freelance)

In 1981, the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers acquired this abandoned styrofoam quarry, as a test case for reclaiming land damaged by extensive mining. Today, over two decades later, it is obvious that their efforts were largely successful.

Focus on: Styrofoam Mining

Throughout most of the 20th century, this vital but seldom-modeled industry provided almost all of the styrofoam used in the United States. Huge blocks of the foam were blasted free, to be shipped to sawmills and cut into domestic insulation board. Debris from the blasting was collected for use as packing material (the familiar styrofoam "peanuts").

Eventually, the development of synthetic styrofoam and the increasing costs of mining reduced the demand for the natural product. By the end of the 1970s, styrofoam mining had essentially ceased to exist as an industry.

You would be utterly amazed (and perhaps a bit dismayed) at how many people believe this. "I never knew styrofoam came from mines..."

[cv_acr]

Like the description placard we place on MARRS's "McDonnell Loop" module at shows:

ABANDONED STYROFOAM QUARRY
modeled by Charlie Thompson
(freelance)

In 1981, the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers acquired this abandoned styrofoam quarry, as a test case for reclaiming land damaged by extensive mining. Today, over two decades later, it is obvious that their efforts were largely successful.

Focus on: Styrofoam Mining

Throughout most of the 20th century, this vital but seldom-modeled industry provided almost all of the styrofoam used in the United States. Huge blocks of the foam were blasted free, to be shipped to sawmills and cut into domestic insulation board. Debris from the blasting was collected for use as packing material (the familiar styrofoam "peanuts").

Eventually, the development of synthetic styrofoam and the increasing costs of mining reduced the demand for the natural product. By the end of the 1970s, styrofoam mining had essentially ceased to exist as an industry.

You would be utterly amazed (and perhaps a bit dismayed) at how many people believe this. "I never knew styrofoam came from mines..."

Hahaha.

[Nato]

  One of those Walthers shorty cars was it the Piker one ,was advertised as having a nude girl in the shower. Actaully the shower was a rectangular white painted piece of wood with a black printed on outline of a woman standing under a running shower the lines representing the water obscured the details on the gal. Boy was I disappointed when I got to look inside a kit box at my LHS as a teenager. Now Walthers a few years back reissued these cars, but with moder plastic bodies and very nice paint schemes, I almost considered purchasing one for the cuteness factor eventhough it ws in HO Scale.        Nate Goodman (Nato).