Almost everyone has some type of maintenance equipment on their layout. If you have time, assemble a work train and show everyone what you’ve got.
This is my mx train for the Cedar Branch & Western. It consists of one ballast hopper, a small crane and tender, three camp cars and a caboose.
Below is my railroad’s mx truck.
And a close up shot of the crane and tender.
Before I show them, I have to build them! One each of a AF Overland coach and combine are awaiting conversion along with a score of long out of production Kinsman kits for tool and bunk cars. Nothing like bashing 40+ year old stock!
Dave
You want to see MOW equipment? I got tons of MOW equipment! Here’s most of it:
My Canadian National equipment, including snow plows, a spreader, cranes, a pile driver, and wreck cranes.
The CP line of MOW, including more plows, cranes, pile driver, and a whole bunch of cars for a MOW train.
My Fundy Northern & misc. lettered MOW equipment - cranes, pile driver, steam shovels, spreader, ballast cars, fire fighting car, plows, etc.
(click on photos to enlarge)
Do you think I have an interest in MOW equipment? [:D]
Bob Boudreau
Bob, once again, you have amazed me. That is a heck of a collection, of just MOW equipment alone!
I will post pictures of my MOW stuff later. That is, if that lot of CSX MOW items off of eBay would ever get here![:(!]
uspscsx
Fundynorthern. very immpreeeesssssive indeed, fantastic collection.
Have never seen a double ended snow plow or the double cupola cabose. what vintage are they, just curious…John
Uh, Bob,
When do you get a chance to run ALL of those? How many do you typically keep on the layout at a time? Very nice collection!
That’s a nice collection, Bob. It would be nice to see a photo you have done with a train and crew working on a section.
Now see you went and got me thinkin’ again.
Randy,
I hope thats not your real photo in your sig.
Anyway you made me realize I don’t have any photos of my MOW train
So these are ,fresh…
Keep in mind , there is NO MOW in 1:29 scale. Some in 1:24th older style.
We have to come up with our own.
So I wrote up an order and had the scetion gang bring their train down to Neb Jct which sevices the SE sud.
This is the only train on our RR which has the caboose still in service
We have a tool car bashed from a refer car, next a short scrap iron and parts car, You can see the older ballast cars and an old baggage car for shop supplies and parts.
y small yard area, but works very well.
Number of tractors and misc machines for tie work.
You can see the wedge plow. Very,FUN[;)]
A wheel car that needs some rust applied next time the air brush is going. hate cleaning them[V]
Hope you dial up folks don’t hate me.
You all are so lucky in HO, [:p]
Speaking of, most decals you see on this train is HO, many HO box car decals are the right size for 1:29.
COOOL AH???[:p]
Wow! Marty, you do great work!
uspscsx
I have a question for Bob regarding those wedge plows. Ambroid kits I presume? I have one each in HO and S both produced by Ambroid, the S kit being the rarer of the two.
Dave
No Ambroid models, most are either plastic Tri-Ang, Walthers or scratchbuilt ( the CN double ended one, lower right in photo).
There is one kit-build Northeastern Russell Plow, in my Fundy Northern group, the red one in the uppoer right. Most of the plastic ones have been heavily modified and/or shortened.
Bob Boudreau
FundyNorthern
How about a few better pics of the cutaway diesel unit in the front? It looks like a F7A or something. And also that CN Jorden Spreader in the front also.
Thanks
Bob: Great selection of MOW, Canadian eh? with that collection of snowplows! ! slick job on those old passenger cars converted, BUT, what I didn’t see was a CPR flanger, in fact I have never seen a model of a flanger, anyone have one???
Not yet, I have a source for some S narrow guage flangers and other good stuff at the right price, not to hard to convert to standard.
Dave
Thanks Bob, been away from HO too long to remember Tri-Ang, seems I had a something by them once upon a time. Great collection, great modeling! The double ended CN example is outstanding.
Dave
I had a few shots of the cutaway F-7 on another thread a while ago, here it is again:
It’s a basic dummy Athearn unit, with a scratchbuilt diesel motor, cutouts, etc. Would you believe that it actually operates? The front truck has a PFM SPUD power truck.
The CN spreader is a Walthers model with a Custom Finishing front blade kit replacing the kit’s larger one, plus some other modifications. It ws the cover article on the January 1999 issue of Model Railroading magazine.
Bob Boudreau
I have yet to make a CP flanger, although I do have photos of one CP made from a boxcar with a cupola. Maybe one of these days?
Bob Boudreau
Bob
I was given a stack of NMRA Bulletins, and remember that one being in it, didn’t you win a NMRA award on that? Probably just one of many, you do excellent work.
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Cool thread idea!
This is a set I bought when I was a teenager. Kennedy, or maybe Johnson, was President. Does anyone know who made them?
They were originally by Tru-Scale, later brought out by Walthers. I still have a Tru-Scale 15 ton crane and tender and MOW caboose I had as a teenager last century!
Bob Boudreau