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Re: Weekend Update 10/18/15
« Reply #45 on: October 20, 2015, 04:29:23 PM »
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And now a word from the West Coast:


A toolcar for your UP excursion train.


A reworked ConCor Greenville car, various MS decals, and some weird trucks I had laying around....now KATO will produce this.  :RUEffinKiddingMe:

And the word is AWESOME. I need to scrounge my junk box for one of those bodies. Someone else I saw somewhere else (CRS Symdrome symptom) posted a tool car using the Athearn 60 foot boxcar model as a starting point.

Nicely played, sir.
Peter Pfotenhauer

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Re: Weekend Update 10/18/15
« Reply #46 on: October 20, 2015, 04:45:56 PM »
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I have 6 of the Con Cor cars in Chessie colors and 1 in Pennsy.

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Re: Weekend Update 10/18/15
« Reply #47 on: October 21, 2015, 01:58:00 AM »
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As for the trucks: I believe they are from Intermountain GPEX milk reefers. The GPEX model pictures online show trucks the same, it seems. You'll have to shim up the bolsters/truck center to get the trucks to clear the underside, and install body mount couplers.
Good thing about this car is there are tons of photos of it online. Only I forgot to put in the two small screened openings on one side of the car.
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Re: Weekend Update 10/18/15
« Reply #48 on: October 21, 2015, 02:45:54 AM »
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Thanks for the info on the trucks. If I can get a car, maybe I can ask Intermountain for a pair of trucks.
Again, really nice work and thank you for sharing how you built it.
-Ryan

As for the trucks: I believe they are from Intermountain GPEX milk reefers. The GPEX model pictures online show trucks the same, it seems. You'll have to shim up the bolsters/truck center to get the trucks to clear the underside, and install body mount couplers.
Good thing about this car is there are tons of photos of it online. Only I forgot to put in the two small screened openings on one side of the car.