Hi gang. I was just looking through one of my model train catalogs, and came across a sales ad and photo of a covered gondola. No offense to those that like them, but that’s one type of car I can live without. To me, they look like a box car that’s been crushed down…
So is there any type of rolling stock that you don’t like ?.
Tracklayer
The Canadian style grain hoppers. They do nothing for me.
Flat cars and tankers are my favourites, although I like the N&W style coal hoppers. Boxcars are okay, too.
I have no idea why, but I hate tankers. Rolling Molotov cocktails if you ask me[|(]
Hi selector. Are you talking about the cylinderical hoppers ?.
Tracklayer
Awww bb4884. Come on man… Tankers are among my favorites.
Tracklayer
I dislike passenger cars, period. There are passenger cars on my layout. One is a baggage car set up as a storage building, the second is a dining car set up as a trackside diner and the third is an office car on a MoW train.
Yes, Tracklayer, I don’t like their looks. The don’t have any “character”.
I like all freight cars, they are all unique and serve a purpose. However, that doesn’t mean I don’t quesition the purpose of some of them. For example, ore cars, with their small size, I don’t see the purpose if a larger car can have more capacity than the smaller car. I guess it has something to do with weight limitation along the lines they serve on, but still, not that I don’t like them, they’re just my least favorite.
Jeffrey, you ain’t right man, but I’ll pray for you (ha, ha)…
Tracklayer
Nope, I like them all. Some more than others, but if it fits my time period then it can go on my layout. And if anyone ever makes a Stilwell oyster car in S I’ll get it, even though it really is too early for my time period.
Enjoy
Paul
Flat cars…I hated them as a brakeman and I hate 'em as a model.
Just about anything modern. An exception for Amtrak Superliners. Of course, they’re not that modern since I rode them when they first came out in the 1970s which is why I like them. I like 40 boxcars with roof walks, short tankers, and flat cars that are truly flat. You can have the 86 foot hi-cube boxcars and the container flats. I do like modern day cabooses. Oh wait, you don’t have modern day cabooses. My bad.
I believe his name is FRED. [:)]
I don’t really like the big 86’ box cars.
Roadrailers.
The problem is really with the people, not the cars or track. Ore is usually much denser than the lading larger hoppers are designed around: coal. If coal hoppers were used for ore (and this has been tried) in short order the operators start filling the hoppers to the maximum volume rather than the rated load capacity, resulting in damage to the cars and track.
KL
I’d have to go with modern bathtub gons. Since I model the 60’s, no problem on the layout. I just really dislike being overjoyed at getting stopped for a train and then disappointed when I see a hundred or so coal cars with no character and the only thing differenciating them is the car number.
Rick
Anything without “Southern” painted on it.[bow]
But seriously, I don’t like Front Runners. They look funny. I like intermodal, but not them.
[#ditto] on the Front Runners…never liked 'em, never will.
Don Z.
Any frieght car longer than 50’
Also-- Circus cars in ANY form.
BTW: For the FRONTRUNNER “fans.”