This is the place to share your scratch-built, kit-bashed, or kit MOW trains.
-Tim
Custom made PRR work train from my first n scale layout. Jim
Built these in the 60’s. They were the first cars on the new layout in 05.
Some of mine.
Rotor
Nice collection! Is the spreader scratchbuilt? I kitbashed a flanger years ago based on the SP design; MOW equipment is intersting, and makes the yard more interesting, too.
Thanks Courage8!
The Jordan Spreader is a Walthers kit I did over 10 years ago, as is the Russell snow plow. The derrick car is an Athearn RTR I got about 3 or 4 years ago. I also have an Athearn rotary snow plow, (not shown).
Rotor
ive been seriously thinking of building a loram rail grinder that cleans the track for me, problem is i don’t know where to start
Here’s a few of mine.
This is an old set I got back in the early 1960’s. They were sold as a complete 8-car train.
I posed them here to get them all into the picture. (Click on it for a larger view.)
Peter Smith, Memphis
MisterB: I used to have a set that was very similar to what you show there. Mine was made by Walther’s.
Looks like i have the same crane as Mr Beasley
I had to stuff mine with lead to get it to stay on the track
runs great now
I made the shorty flat car from an old caboose by cutting the porches off
Yeah, somebody identified them as something originally made by Tru-line (I think.) They went out of business, but Walthers may have the original molds for these cars now. Maybe they will re-release them sometime. The originals had horn-hooks, and the coupler pockets had non-standard center pins. I had to cut them off and install Kadee draft gear boxes to make them work.
Tru-Scale.
The Ohio locomotive crane that I posted on this thread is a kit bashed steam wood burning version of the same kit. The photo is the prototype. ( Camp 18 OR)
Peter Smith, Memphis
Wow, until I chanced upon this thread I didn’t really remember having any MoW cars in my inventory. They have been stored away for so long, as I really don’t have a free siding to display them on with my current layout.
I beleive I built all of these N-scale models back in college, or shortly thereafter. Tool Car #12 is simply a repainted double-door boxcar. Bunk Car #11 has wooden scratchbuilt sides and a wooden roof built over the shell of what was an old reefer. (If I remember correctly.) The “bobber” caboose is entirely scratchbuilt of the same wood material, it’s foundation is a Kadee passenger-car truck.
My snowplow is a converted tender from an old Atlas/Rivarossi Pacific. The plow blades are made up from parts salvaged from a model of the Space Shuttle! I don’t run it on my layout because the plow fouls on the sides of a couple of bridges.
In the process of enlarging the photo I also just noticed that I’m missing a wheelset from the front truck.
This is my favorite. Notice how the back end is up on blocks…very redneck.
Not to forget the ever favorite…
Hey, I really like the loo on wheels (and a UP loo; appropriately enough). This apparently didn’t get absorbed in the SP merger . . . BLMA makes a pretty nice model of one of these for about $4 each (but it needs weathering, of course.)
You can find it at Walther’s for $8.45 for the 2-pack. Walther’s #176-4111
I don’t have any close-up photos of the equipment, but my MOW train is a kind of hand-me-down collection of a Tichy crane and boom car, some old Roundhouse 3-in-1 kits and a few older Walther’s/Silver Streak MOW cars. Gives my stubby little Rio Grande 2-8-0 something to do when it’s not setting out cattle cars in the high country during the spring.
These photos were taken several years back at Sierra City before I did some major modifications to the area.
Tom
Darkness looms and the sun sinks as the CB&W crew attempt to replace a broken wheel.
The “Big Little Hook” waiting for business.
