07-30-2011, 01:40 PM
Thanks for the compliments. We're looking to upgrade in the home department (getting into a good school district and having a large basement for my grand layout)...so I've been busy with home and family stuff...what little hobby time I've had has gone to working and reading layout design/scenery books.
T
hese cars are the same prototypes as Micro-trains/Grandt Line's HOn3 cars. The principal difference is that the On3 versions are slightly more complicated (the SUF is one part in HOn3, it's 20 or so in On3). As standard cars go, the C&S cars are a reasonable choice. As I'd suppose you know, a number of their boxcars, stockcars, and reefers went on to the RGS and some of their boxcars celebrated their 100th birthdays while still in regular service on the WP&Y. The major advantages to using these versus the Microtrains version is that they require less work to bash and were typically $10 or so cheaper (about $15-20 each). Only the F&CC boxcars (which were close cousins) were better traveled.
I promise to upload more pictures, but these are all I have. I also may have to upload some pictures of re-working my first On3 car (a C&S stockcar on which I made a few mistakes)
Michael
T
hese cars are the same prototypes as Micro-trains/Grandt Line's HOn3 cars. The principal difference is that the On3 versions are slightly more complicated (the SUF is one part in HOn3, it's 20 or so in On3). As standard cars go, the C&S cars are a reasonable choice. As I'd suppose you know, a number of their boxcars, stockcars, and reefers went on to the RGS and some of their boxcars celebrated their 100th birthdays while still in regular service on the WP&Y. The major advantages to using these versus the Microtrains version is that they require less work to bash and were typically $10 or so cheaper (about $15-20 each). Only the F&CC boxcars (which were close cousins) were better traveled.
I promise to upload more pictures, but these are all I have. I also may have to upload some pictures of re-working my first On3 car (a C&S stockcar on which I made a few mistakes)
Michael
Michael
My primary goal is a large Oahu Railway layout in On3
My secondary interests are modeling the Denver, South Park, & Pacific in On3 and NKP in HO
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My primary goal is a large Oahu Railway layout in On3
My secondary interests are modeling the Denver, South Park, & Pacific in On3 and NKP in HO
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