ACF Hospital Car Info

[wcfn100]

Not many at this point.

I can only pray you are talking about locomotives or maybe passenger cars.  I can list 50 freight cars from my era alone that have as much worth as any car already made.


Jason

[bbussey]

Fifty freight cars that have a sizable number of schemes/roads that are prototypical, in order to recap the tooling investment in the form of multiple releases?

[Bob Bufkin]

Haven't seen anything about a heavyweight combination car so far.  Not that many out there I can think of and I could use a few.

[wcfn100]

Fifty freight cars that have a sizable number of schemes/roads that are prototypical, in order to recap the tooling investment in the form of multiple releases?

Not being a manufacturer, I don't know those numbers first hand.  But based on what I've seen released in the last 10-15 years, yeah.

Jason

[AlbertSpor]

Sorry to dredge up this old of a post, but I was scouring the internet for info on hospital cars, and this thread popped up. I was wondering if anything is/was happening on this? @MTLJoe
Thanks
Albert Spor

[bbussey]

I'm rolling my own.

[AlbertSpor]

Bryan those look great.
I am looking more at the baggage dormitory conversions, as used by SP and ACL.
Again your models look fantastic.
Albert

[thomasjmdavis]

Bryan, are those destined to become ESM offerings?

For those of us without 3D printers, or who just prefer to do things the old fashioned way-

Union Station Products makes sides for both ACL and StLCC versions-
https://unionstationproducts.com/u-s-army/

and 3 variations of the SP rebuilds- (3401A, B, C)
https://unionstationproducts.com/southern-pacific/

NOTE: The USP sides are available in several scales- there is a bar on the page where you select the scale you want (N scale is less expensive, but HO is the "default" setting).

[bbussey]

I wish I could have done it the "old fashioned" way, would have been much easier.  But no one offers the RBB&B circus variation.

No ESM release.  License issues, plus it would be issued as injection-molded RTR rather than a resin kit if through ESM.

[thomasjmdavis]

I wish I could have done it the "old fashioned" way, would have been much easier.  But no one offers the RBB&B circus variation.

No ESM release.  License issues, plus it would be issued as injection-molded RTR rather than a resin kit if through ESM.

However you did it, it is fine work. I'm guessing 3d printing with etched grills over the windows (?)

USP does have sides for a couple Ringling cars (pie car and generator), but nothing that look like yours. 

My own circus train is currently a collection of odds and ends of the last 30 years of N scale production, much of it waiting to be assembled.  I envy you guys who actually finish projects.

[bbussey]

Everything 3D-printed including the louvers over the windows.

The RBB&B circus train has been an overwhelming endeavor which I wouldn't have started if I'd realized that prior.  It's not just the rolling stock that has to be modeled.  It's the numerous flatcar payloads as well, most of which must be scratchbuilt and are more difficult to fabricate than the rolling stock.

[PRB]

I was watching a YouTube video last week when a strange (short) looking Amtrak baggage car with a single door rolled by.
Now I know what it is and would certainly buy one or two if available.
Thanks for the info guys.

Tim

[sirenwerks]

Union Station has ACF and St Louis Car Co hospital car etch sets, FWIW.

[chessie system fan]

Bryan, what was your information source for your 3D model?  ACL turned one of these into a business car, which is still used by CSX.  I'd like to model it one day, but information on these hospital cars is scarce. I mostly care about the ends and overall dimension.  ACL changed everything else.

[bbussey]

I based it off drawings in one of the railroad magazines, I don’t remember which. Either MR or MM I think. Details drawn based on photos of the prototype and of the Overland brass model.