Rolling Stock of the Month Club Entries

Here is one of the first pieces of rolling stock that I converted from a Marklin european prototype car into a N.A. style boxcar. It's made of index card.

This one is for Al Godfrey



Al made this in the late 80's

Very nice! Heavy Load! cool looking! Nice shot Fred.

For Fred

Outbound load from Peoria IL, circa 1972. Prototype 50’ heavyweight flat car with 3 axle buckeye trucks with 2 CAT 955 loaders, prototype drop deck car with 3 axle buckeye trucks with a CAT D8 load and a drop deck car with MTL trucks with a CAT 980 loader load.

Very nice work. That will make an interesting train.. The 3 axle trucks make a BIG difference!!

It looks like June is heavy rolling stock month. Here is my offering. It's a Railgun 280mm K5 by Z-Panzer.




Thom

MRL boxcar this time.

Are they being transfer to the Ohio SSRZ Southernnscale Railroad Z Layout? I'll be waiting at the station with my semi's and flat beds for oversize load to begain work on site, on my layout clearing the land for one of my new buildings!

Outbound load from Peoria IL, circa 1972. Prototype 50’ heavyweight flat car with 3 axle buckeye trucks with 2 CAT 955 loaders, prototype drop deck car with 3 axle buckeye trucks with a CAT D8 load and a drop deck car with MTL trucks with a CAT 980 loader load.

..A MTL GP35 I repainted with the Ferrocarril Chiapas Mayab (Genesee & Wyoming) paintscheme, for my future mexican layout.



Dom

A new month and a very OLD car It must date back to the dawn of Z. Alfred Godfry made this box car.. It is a paper box car from Gorre and Daphetid- the origins of which has passed into the dust bin of memory.






Bottom view--Al weighted the car- paper glued to wood-- and is ready for trucks and couplers.
I have kept it in original condition as I recieved it.

This is an F? that I built out of index card to go over an old European Marklin diesel loco. This was the only way to get something North American at the time.

One of four,this is part of a MTL runnerpack.

Two for one rolling stock entry... PA 50ft with straight sides gondola and my heavy duty 3 axle buckeye trucks along with my Ohio DE-650 115 ton capacity diesel electric locomotive crane with outriggers. Cab hand rails and carbody end grab bars are 0.3 mm DIA copper wire formed on a jig I made. The hook went flying across my office before I could install it so I need to make a new one. This model was printed out at Shapeways twice without any problems or failures. It has a key that adjusts the boom and hoist drums. It comes with a cab interior that you can paint appropriate colors before installing the cab. It comes with the option to have the outriggers in or out. I just submitted a smaller stl file to sell as a kit in my SHapeways store WITHOUT CHANGING ANY GEOMETRY OR FEATURES and it got rejected at final inspection just before printing the parts. I give up... Sorry Fred, they did the same thing to the final 250 ton Brownhoist crane that consisted solely of geometry that has successfully printed out many times before. This really bums me out….

Jon,
That's not right! I want one of those! That's a really nice crane! I guess you made that one too. I guess I'm going to have to fine out where you live so, As soon as I fine out I'll be there so I can take that one home to Ohio where it belongs. I seen one the other day down by the Ohio River Near the tracks in Maysville Kentucky. just across the river from me!!!!!! !

Glad you like it Walt. It does suck.... This is not the first time I've run into this problem with Shapeways. This file had two cranes in it (the other one I have painted UP yellow but waiting to make decals before final assembly). I made it one crane in the file and didn't change a thing (just took duplicate parts out). I do plan on sending the CEO my grievances (because I've brought it up with customer service and they really don't care to actually address the problem) and how unprofessional this is and how it has happened many times over but I'm still to mad to write a constructive letter....