A friend of mine has asked me to glue a Loch Ness looking monster to one of his flat cars, make it look tied down and place soldiers here and there on it as if they’re transporting a dangerous, captured sea monster somewhere…
To each his own.
Tracklayer
I don’t know if it qualifies as weird, but I have the main block weight out of a Lionel Challenger tender on one of mine. It almost looks like a shiny compressed scrap metal block.
Here’s one of mine:
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It’s a Roco HO scale model of an MBB BO-105 helicopter of the Canadian Coast Guard. Before I retired from the Coast Guard I flew in this type of chopper and others over the years. I painted and decorated it.
Bob Boudreau
tracklayer-It’s funny you said that about the monster. I just saw a crate kit in the shape of a dinosuar. It was called “The mystery Load”
a crappy plactic semi.
A 567 engine from a emd.
Same load that’s in most of my hoppers, gondolas, box cars, and auto cars… Empty space… Haven’t thought that far ahead yet… [:I]
Jeff
And just for fun…
not really weird…roller coaster track sections ( hand built) have some on flats & in gondolas. a way to tie my 2 favorite hobbies together MR & coaster enthusiast
A rusty old 2-10-4 on an 85 footer. Not quite done with chocks and tie downs so no pics yet!
I know this is a tad off-topic, but I remember when I was a kid, the Lionel catalog had a picture of a boxcar with a giraffe sticking its head and neck out thru a hole in the roof![(-D]
Air.
Tom
A chapel…on wheels!
Also off topic, but is anyone else out there old enough to remember the “girls” train set, the engine and each car was a different pastel shade?
Definitely does not fit with todays PCness!
Merry Christmas everyone.
I’m not old enough to have even been aware of the release but I’ve seen them at shows, usually commanding a pretty hefty price (and the sellers carry them back home too)… I think, even in the 50s, Lionel really flopped with that one… [B)]
Jeff
Is that a moose inside the car?
and How does that coupler connection on the right work? One Kadee type and one horn hook…
It is some sort of large South American Rodent.
You are right, but the horn hook is highly modified and has to slip on from the top. It stays and won’t uncouple without the 0-5-0.
I have a 40’ with a really old spike I found in Roger’s Pass a few years back that I took off all the rust and made like new, but with many pits and scars. I also had a Bowser steam loco that my dad unsuccessfully assembled some time ago. NEVER put that at the end of the train!
For about 30 seconds I had a drumstick on two 89’ flatcars before my dad made me take them off…