Fun with flatcars??????

[JaBear]

Bear,If that car was a one evening project who ever did it must have had some looooong evenings

Sumpter250is right, it was Paul Larson and to be fair he was using commercial parts available at the time and obviously a lot more practised than me. I still think that it was one of those high latitude winter evenings though.

Those look like Tichy parts to me - #3006 - 32 in a package.

Yeah thats them alright. I'm also using Tichy #3074 10" Queenposts ; Tichy #8021 Turnbuckles: the brake reservoir is a spare from a Tichy Cement Car kit, and for this one, Walthers 933-1018 Arch Bar Rigid Truck with metal wheelsets: and of course Kadee #5 couplers and Kadee coupler pockets.

Lots of good and fun construction articles in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Model Railroader

Yes there are, and if my pace wasn't so glacial there are a lot I'd like to have a crack at, like that shed of Sumpter250s.
Thanks for the kind and encouraging words,
Cheers, the Bear.