I picked this up at the Great American Train show on Sunday. Does anyone know what it is and if there is a prototype? It is cast metal, sprung trucks (if they are original), cast metal non-working couplers.
Google is your friend.
(This was the first hit). Page 130.
Probably it was a kit from BC Models, 1860 to 1906 kits, or whoever owned the line before him. Now owned by Bitter Creek. Below is a picture from the catalog the owner sent me many years ago. Metal castings, wood bottom, roof, possibly paper sides. Most probably the oil tank is a metal casting. I have a couple cars from BC Models.
To see the catalog, go to the bel
Well, I suppose most layouts can handle one or two “goofball” cars (meaning, an extremely rare prototype car or an imaginary one).
Mark
I suppose one should take them off the layout for prototypical operations. But odd cars are part of the charm of this hobby for me.
Enjoy
Paul
What’s, “Goofball,” about a car that could be used in legitimate interchange service - if you’re modeling 1875 or so (Look at the spindly arch-bar trucks of the prototype, in the Googled article.) Just pick legitimate origin or destination points on your layout, make up an appropriate car card and waybills and attack with great gusto. Just don’t run it too close to either the locomotive or the caboose…
I have a real oddball that just runs from staging to staging - a two-level livestock car (for pigs) with a brakeman’s compartment and markers. I’ll bet the prototype was really popular with the rear-end crews…
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with a pig-brake)
And what a perfect hit it was. I wonder if they didn’t produced this model from that photo.
What exactly did you enter into the search? I entered “oil and merchandise” - zillion unrelated hits, “merchandise and oil” - zillion unrelated hits, “merchandise and oil car” - more zillions of unrelated hits. Is the word “combination” the key? I’ll go try.
Hm… that’s a “combination car” variant I had forgotten.
The one I have a drawing for looks like a straight boxcar. It doesn’t have the fish-bellied tank bottom but has rectangular tanks in each end of the car leaving the middle free for LCL boxcar traffic… which would save using a full boxcar for a sall load.
[8D]
Obvious man told me to use
Overland oil & transportation co
It worked.
Also, take time to go to the HO Seeker site and look at the BC Models Catalog I sent to the site. The link is directly below. You will see a Cook’s car that looks very similar. The owner of BC Models says all his kits were designed from Prototypes. This is not someones “opinion”.
“combination merchandise and oil car”. It looks like the word “combination” is critical. Google can return really weird hits sometimes.
Karl
Texas Zephyr … Haven’t you seen a pregnant boxcar before ? ??? [:D][:-^][%-)]
You know that is kind of what I thought when I first saw it.
Also found these redball kits:
http://www.hoseeker.net/redball/redballcatalog07pg09.jpg
http://www.hoseeker.net/redball/redballcatalog8pg03.jpg
http://www.hoseeker.net/redball/redballcatalog09pg04.jpg
new one on me, having a tank underneath prolly opens up the rest of the car for product vs tanks on the ends. Early freight business did lots of things, to help accomodate the LCL service.
I recently found some cars would get loaded with product, but a buyer of the product wouldn’t be found right off, so the car would roam the railroad (rather than being holed up at a yard) then when a buyer is found it would get routed to the buyer. Something to think for all you car card makers.