Tuscarora Valley Railroad market car #207, built on a Bachmann box car. Full details can be found here:
http://www.mylargescale.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=37979
It’s currently in the process of being painted, hopefully to be finished by this weekend; bottles and diapers not-withstanding.
Later,
K
Pardon my ignorance, but what is a market car?
Really impressive. Good ideas come out of this conversion, especially laminating the sides to add width.
Ray… “Market cars” were used primarily in agricultural regions to transport farmers’ produce to market. Think of it as a farmer’s market on wheels; or at least the truck which carried the farmer and his goods to the market. Generally, a single farmer wouldn’t have enough produce to fill an entire car, but enough farmers along the way to the “big city” could.
I hadn’t heard of them either, but as I dig deeper into eastern narrow gauge history, I’m discovering that it was surprisingly common for a railroad to have at least one or two such cars on the roster. In many cases, they were listed as box cars, so unless they showed up specifically in a photo, one would never know they existed.
Later,
K
Nice job, and thanks for the little history lesson on this type of car.