MacG wrote: <snip>The two new reefer cars and a caboose
Car 1: MDT Steel Ice Reefer
This looks like a new diagonal-panel roof molding and a new postwar end...
along with a side with traditional insulated doors using hinges on both sides.
I'm not an MDT expert... but it looks like a good start.
This one might also stand-in for a PFE R-40-25... (diagonal roof)
Car 2: PFE Steel Ice Reefer
The new roof moulding... and the 3-3 postwar dreadnaught end;
The side with the combination door... hinges on the right, and plug door on the left,
makes this a PFE Class R-40-27 or -28, built in 1957. First glance looks promising.
Caboose:
"East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet" - Rudyard Kipling, 1889"
A good EASTERN-style center cab caboose... (C&O and others)...
but apparently someone had to have it in "Union Pacific"....
<sigh> No Comment...MacG wrote:What kind of car is it? The box car...
Well... This uses the same roof as the reefers, but without the ice hatches...
and another different new side with a modern plug door.
{edited-rb} As lettered, this is an
AAR Type RBL (
Refrigerated-
Bunkerless-
Loaders) insulated boxcar; more likely, this car would be an older reefer conversion with the ice bunkers removed for
RB service. I would want to look for examples of such a low-height RB with 3-3 postwar dreadnaught ends.
MacG wrote:Lok-n-Roll has two orders over a DDA40X and working also on a chassis. The view at the tank through the etched catwalk will be obtained. Driven by two motors. At the moment there are minor problems to fix. I think it is only possible to couple with a radius of near a 1 meter.
{{sounds of hysterical laughing}} For a moment there I thought you said "
radius of near a 1 meter"...
WAIT!!! You
DID say "radius of near a 1 meter"... and I thought my 24-inch design rule was generous!
Not to mention the many railroads it was used on... which all seem to have the initials
UP!
(Sorry... Southern Pacific fans generally don't like the UP...)MacG wrote: Not for sale! Only to show what is possible with a kit
Prototype quantity: 1
Model quantity: 1
DONE... Finis...
(Nicely done model)