Good morning all. 33 degrees and a bit of sn--, sn-- , white stuff came down over night. Figures. Took off my winter tires yesterday. The roads were bare but I did have toscrape some off of the windshield.
Louis, you did it. You had to post a picture of the B&O M-53 wagon top box car. And then CSX_road_slug went and posted an ebay listing for one. I wasn't sure about the time period these were produced, but being that I did see them in the late 50's, I went and got one. I can remember in earlier posts that I stated that I had enough freight equipment. Guess I needed more.
The majority of my freight equipment is either custom painted for my own railroad, or are from western railroads. I even custom decorated some using dry transfers. When I started accumulating freight equipment, the old Athearn blue box kits were probably the better ones on the market. Back in the early 80's there wasn't a lot of choice like we have today with Accurail, Kadee, Intermountain and others so the choices were rather limited.
With very few east coast equipment on my layout I have been able to find a few Kadee cars at a decent discount and have picked up a few, but they are still lacking. The B&O wagon top will be a good addition. Now I'm going to have to check and see how much room I have available for storage. I don't want to rat hole them away in boxes, but would like to keep them on the layout. With 2 yards available a lot can be lept in them, and with hidden staging tracks, I can park 2 50+ car trains and still have the use of the hidden staging with an additional track available.
Thanks Louis.