santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
My experience is the same as Ken's, mine is over 30 years old. I have compared freight cars "roll" before and after and noted a difference in many.
Mail Call! Railway Post Office, commonly abbreviated as RPO has rolled in!
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trailrider
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Does anybody know what the Navy's truck & rail van (TARVAN) containers used to carry loaded first and second stages of submarine-launched fleet ballistic missiles from Utah to the East coast, in the early 1970's, looked like? I worked for an aerospace company that handled the engineering of the misisle motors, and we had reports of some incidents of people taking shots at the TARVANS with some motors in them, but, fortunately, there were no incidents resulting from the shots, but I never saw or had any details of the TARVANS on flatcars. Nor, can I find any reference to them on the internet.
Iron Horseman
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Ok, I'll keep using mine, but most of mine's use has been the metal walther's passenger trucks.
D&J RailRoad
Professor of HO
How many of those passenger cars do you have?
Iron Horseman
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Somewhere between 307 (last good count) and 500 (all the new ones I've purchased in the last 10 years). So that is between 2000 and 4000 axles.
Edit - well I take that back all those aren't Walthers. At least 75 are the BLI California Zephyr, Wabash, and the SP Daylight cars.
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santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
May not last quite as long on metal trucks.
zzr1200guy
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I just picked up 4 more Athearn passengers cars to bring my ATSF passengers train 10 car
1 RPO
3 domes
3 coaches
2sleeper
1 Observation car.
I'd like to find 2 sleepers and 2 coaches and atleast 2 baggage cars to finish this train. I have a F7 AB set of Blue Box Super powers to pull that set would mind a another A unit.
1 RPO
3 domes
3 coaches
2sleeper
1 Observation car.
I'd like to find 2 sleepers and 2 coaches and atleast 2 baggage cars to finish this train. I have a F7 AB set of Blue Box Super powers to pull that set would mind a another A unit.
Iron Horseman
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Does Athearn make a diner for the set? Less the domes that would make a pretty good SanFrancisco Chief or Texas Chief.
Edit. Yes, they do!
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zzr1200guy
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and a dinning car
PMW
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I love them! Especially the gon with the ghosts. They remind me of the Oggie Boogie Man from "Nightmare Before Christmas"
PMW
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migalyto
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Easiest way is to upload the video to YouTube and link it in the reply. There's also a couple of members that save it to their OneDrive and link it from there as well.
PMW
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That is so cool
Colorado Midland Modeler
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Got my motor for CM 22 today, put it in and the 22 runs like a brand new engine.
KriegslokBR52
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You do know that these Athearn blue box passenger cars are shortened versions of real cars (?)
