tomstockton
Tom Stockton
When I saw the title for this thread, a specific car popped into mind...
When I was six years old and just barely old enough to handle HO scale, my "favorite" aunt and uncle bought me an Athearn "blue box" 50' double-door box in the NYC Jade Green scheme. Dad had to put it together for me, since I'd yet to develop my "modeling" skills. Its color was so striking compared to everything I had at the time, it immediately became my favorite. And it still sticks in my mind as such.
As for car type... I like almost all of them so well, it's hard to pick one type. But near (if not at the top) of my list is the freight car that Beiland picked, the liquid-gas cyrogenically-cooled tank car. I'm lucky enough to have an HO scale version of the one at the bottom. Paid a pretty penny for it, but I think it was worth it!
Would LOVE to have the skills that Bobby Pitts has to scratchbuild/kitbash all those wonderful tankers he's done. But I also love to see a long string of 40' single-dome tank cars in a freight consist. <sigh>
Regards,
Tom Stockton
When I was six years old and just barely old enough to handle HO scale, my "favorite" aunt and uncle bought me an Athearn "blue box" 50' double-door box in the NYC Jade Green scheme. Dad had to put it together for me, since I'd yet to develop my "modeling" skills. Its color was so striking compared to everything I had at the time, it immediately became my favorite. And it still sticks in my mind as such.
As for car type... I like almost all of them so well, it's hard to pick one type. But near (if not at the top) of my list is the freight car that Beiland picked, the liquid-gas cyrogenically-cooled tank car. I'm lucky enough to have an HO scale version of the one at the bottom. Paid a pretty penny for it, but I think it was worth it!
Would LOVE to have the skills that Bobby Pitts has to scratchbuild/kitbash all those wonderful tankers he's done. But I also love to see a long string of 40' single-dome tank cars in a freight consist. <sigh>
Regards,
Tom Stockton