JTC JULY 2020 NEW MODEL RELEASE - NSC 9-post well cars

[MetroRedLine]

18 https://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Jacksonville-Terminal-Company-N-772002-NSC-53-Well-Car-DTTX/
17 https://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Jacksonville-Terminal-Company-N-772001-NSC-53-Well-Car-DTTX/

Update: 12 and 9 of these two, respectively, are all that's left as of this writing. Glad I bought my cars today!

[sundowner]

WAIT, WHAT?!?! PLASTIC?!?!

Grrrr...Had I known, I would have bought some metal wheels along with my order. I guess I have some Rapido Trains 33" wheels still left over.

The car uses 36” wheels so Tangent or BLMA would be your best bet.

[sd75i]

 I'd like to have it all stainless.

[SkipGear]

Finished going through all our cars today. Most were pretty simple tweaks. A few were beyond repair. The damage is coming from the cars sliding end to end in the nest. The nest vaccuform plastic was so thin a few of the cars punched through the nest and the railing caught on the plastic.

These cars are incredibly detailed and we'll worth the trouble. I set the best of the cars on the shelf and kept the worst for myself to fix when parts are available....

[ljudice]

Lucky here:    1 perfect, 1 slightly bent....

What nice cars!

[Englewood]

Anybody put metal wheels on these yet? What did you use?
Not like I could run out and buy some.....

[MetroRedLine]

Anybody put metal wheels on these yet? What did you use?
Not like I could run out and buy some.....

I put some Athearn 36" metal wheels (.540" axle) on one of mine, since that was all I had in my wheel storage box. The car tracks just fine.

[jereising]

Like @MetroRedLine I used whatever I had that would work.  Over the years I have accumulated a LOT of metal wheelsets.  I suspect what I ended up using were some old FVMs...and yes, .540.

[GaryHinshaw]

Ditto.  I used FVM 3601's: 36" wheels, 0.540" axles.  Good luck finding any though...  I also removed the washer from the truck bolster and they seem to track just fine. 

These are great cars.  I'm looking forward to the 17-post models in a few months.  JTC is an intermodal game changer.

[MetroRedLine]

JTC is an intermodal game changer.

I was saddened to learn Deluxe Innovations went out of business. But JTC certainly stepped up to fill that void, AND THEN SOME!

[Bob]

Way to go JTC!  Hope you do another run of these cars - I missed out, and so will be more vigilant next time!

[ednadolski]

I was saddened to learn Deluxe Innovations went out of business. But JTC certainly stepped up to fill that void, AND THEN SOME!

<repeating to self> Thrall Lo-Pac, Thrall Lo-Pac, ... </repeating to self> 

Ed

[jereising]

In agreement with@ednadolski.  And since DI is out of the picture, a decent Maxi IV or another proto manufacturer's three unit articulated cars.

I thought FVM was working on them, but he's been silent for quite a while now...

JTC - aside from a few minor glitches - seems to have the right idea.  More power to 'em!

[reinhardtjh]

I thought FVM was working on them, but he's been silent for quite a while now...

Matt's been working on containers.  There were a bunch of new ones the second week of July and an announcement of new ones 2 days ago (Aug 4th) on www.shopfvm.com web store.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10158661945579797&id=92694309796

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10158593905344797&id=92694309796

[pmpexpress]

In agreement with@ednadolski.  And since DI is out of the picture, a decent Maxi IV or another proto manufacturer's three unit articulated cars.

I thought FVM was working on them, but he's been silent for quite a while now...

JTC - aside from a few minor glitches - seems to have the right idea.  More power to 'em!

As I recall, some time ago, someone stated that the DI Maxi IV tooling was not conferred to FVM because Intermountain had a financial stake in the original project and that the tooling for the ex V-Line / Loco-Motives ACF 2-Bay Covered Hoppers, the 53' trailers, and the RoadRailers was lost in China.