Can't say I've ever seen the hitches used on the cut-down NOKL cars... TTXs cut-down AP Husky-Stacks have the hitches removed.
Thanks Robbman, I've never been very good about keeping car manufacturers straight. I'd love to see a timeline of when each company existed, and who bought whom, to help me keep it straight. I bet you have that info.
I have never seen a trailer in one of these units either, and all the pictures I have seen of them are on BNSF which, if I am not mistaken, was leasing the units from NOKL? I think NOKL got these as 48' articulated 3-well sets from Mass Central and cut them down. Regardless, it would certainly be a colorful and different addition to our mostly yellow N scale stack trains, and there are no modern AP well-cars being produced by anyone-- N scale kits will have the 53' AP FEC wellcars at some point (which I am very excited about), but the NSC 3-unit articulated AP wells they make have had the hitches removed for some time now. my best, Jan
5) Modern Trinity reefer. 4) Modern Heavy Duty Flat cars 3) For Kato to do Amfleet cars 2) For DI to produce the well cars they have already said they will do, like the 40' Maxi III and NSC 53 well cars. 1) For DI to produce the Spine cars
The Trinity 53' well car looks like this (non-articulated version). I think this is the one DI said they would do. Or they said they would do the articulated version, rather. There is also a Thrall 53' well car (articulated).
Thanks for the links - that is very helpful. So the NSC well has the rounded wheel fairings and the Trinity is more angled (and this one has TILX markings). Is that a reliable spotting feature? I looked into bashing a Thrall 53' set from the Walthers 48' model but I decided there were too many detail differences to be worth the trouble, and there are no Pacer decals that I know of. (There are a few of these in DTTX though.) I think I'll cut my next Walthers set down to a 40-footer instead. Now if we could only get some MT 125T trucks (and 100T while they're at it) and FVM 38" wheels to go with. I have the same manufacturer problem with the 60' hi-cubes too: NSC? Gunderson? Berwick? oy.
1. Santa Fe heavyweight COACH with 10 big windows per side and channel side sill. 2. SMALL volume 3 or 2 dome tank car. All the 3-dome tanks I have ever seen modeled dimensioned out to 10,000 gallons, and all the prototype 3 dome tanks I have information on were 6000 gallon. I think I will attempt to kitbash or scratchbuild the other items on my want lists: Santa Fe BX-3 and -6 panel-side box Santa Fe "refrigerator standards" boxcar for refrigerator-car salt Ice cars Dry ice reefer Santa Fe BX-O battleship-underframe box
The pics took forever to load so I just put a link, and it will save a lot of frustration as to the slow page loading. How about Trinity RD4 type cars like FVM is doing but longitudinal dump doors running the length of the cars and give them a realistic ride hight!!! TILX has them in a lime green rotary coupler and dark blue, like the AMTX PNJX TILX blue is the same so dark blue. Some are lighter blue, similar to MBKX blue. http://www.railcarphotos.com/Search...SearchCity=&SearchState=&Order=&Search=Search Could we see different types of coal cars? I have seen a neat train of WSPX three bay and four bay hoppers running around. the four bay cars are considrably higher than the three bays. The main reason I like this train is because they are using old cars not bethgons. OOOH the DEEX rollover gons!!! FURX has taken over a lot of these cars I have seen. http://www.railcarphotos.com/Search...SearchCity=&SearchState=&Order=&Search=Search I will try to snap or find pictures of the WSPX and ortner cars.
