mt horse car

[arbomambo]

Test shots of the mtl horse car are posted over at Trainboard.
Bruce

[sirenwerks]

Link?

[reinhardtjh]

http://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/mtl-spy-shots.84270/

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Needs more horses.

[Mark5]

Hope Joe isnt fed up with Railwire ...

[pjm20]

Hope Joe isnt fed up with Railwire ...

The OP says Joe put them up on Facebook, so maybe he's fed up with everyone?  

[reinhardtjh]

I'm wondering which Facebook page. I checked Micro-Train's page and nothing. I checked Joe's personal page and nothing.

[Dave V]

They went up on the PRR N scale modeling FB page.

[thomasjmdavis]

One of the posters over at trainboard states that the Joe who posted the pics is NOT Joe from MT.

Will be a nice addition.  I think I may paint one up as a stand in for the similar L&N car (looks like door sizes are a bit different, but otherwise quite similar), and might take a shot at a kitbash one of these days.
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/67468/rv/singleitem

In later years, L&N modernized the doors on many of their head end cars, so might change those out.  But clearly (in theDenver Library  photo) the original doors can be used with the postwar blue and script paint scheme.  And the various prototype photos on trainboard indicate that the SP prototype (at least one of them) kept its wooden doors until it was grounded and the paint peeling off.  Also note that the L&N horse car is carrying a load of express, not horses- so it is prototypical even if you don't have a racetrack on the layout.

In any case, this will be another car that will add interest to head end consists, and provide lots of kitbashing possibilities.  The most obvious being to chop out the center door and end up with a 60' (more or less) car.  A little more work might yield a 70' mail-baggage with 2 doors on each side (ala L&N or Wabash, and I am sure many others).

[Puddington]

A little more work might yield a 70' mail-baggage with 2 doors on each side (ala L&N or Wabash, and I am sure many others).

"Wait for it"...........

[johnb]

It's the Southern Pacific car that has been talked about a lot here. I am the OP over at Trainboard, and I took the detail pictures of this car for Joe D'Amato.

[reinhardtjh]

I'm wondering which Facebook page. I checked Micro-Train's page and nothing. I checked Joe's personal page and nothing.

New posts on the TrainBoard thread show it went up on the Southern Pacific Modelers FB page, which makes sense in retrospect.

[Specter3]

Well I figured there cant be too many people tooling up a horse car. But when Pudd says wait for it in reference to a 70ft baggage mail I am wondering. MT just did a baggage RPO. That car would flow nicely in my opinion into a baggage parlor/lounge/combine by ditching the door and putting 3-5 more windows in. Seems like you could not swing a dead cat in the 20s without hitting one of those.

[thomasjmdavis]

I'm going to end up buying a couple of the horse cars just to get the end doors for other projects (or use the whole things for a core).

[thomasjmdavis]

Mr. Puddington,

Are you implying that we have something like this:
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2261489

or this
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/ln1375.jpg

coming in the future?

The sudden awareness on the part of manufacturers of the market for N scale head end cars is going to wreak havoc on the manufacturers of razor saw blade and hobby knives.  Long gone are the days when we spent hours trying to come up with one more "close enough" from Rivarossi ATSF cars.