03-18-2022, 09:59 AM
My first HO scale trains came from a variety of makers: Globe F7 diesels, a Varney metal boxcar, two plastic Varney hoppers, one covered, one open, and a plastic Varney tank car, along with an Athearn all-metal 50' flatcar, an MDC cast metal low-sided gondola, an Authenticast depressed-centre flatcar, and a Silver Streak caboose.
All of them had Kadee K-type couplers, in metal draught gear boxes with rivetted-on cover-plates....
Most of the draught gear boxes were held in place with Pliobond contact cement, and/or cut-down straight pins in drilled holes. The one exception was the Athearn flatcar, which was stamped metal with a balsawood underbody. It too had the Pliobond, but the cut-down straight pins were simply pressed into the balsawood.
I still have all of those cars, although the flatcar and caboose are not in use. The A-B-B-A diesels, originally in Santa Fe "Warbonnet" colours, were later painted in CPR grey and maroon, and then later again, re-painted in EG&E double grey and green, now all long gone.
Wayne
All of them had Kadee K-type couplers, in metal draught gear boxes with rivetted-on cover-plates....
Most of the draught gear boxes were held in place with Pliobond contact cement, and/or cut-down straight pins in drilled holes. The one exception was the Athearn flatcar, which was stamped metal with a balsawood underbody. It too had the Pliobond, but the cut-down straight pins were simply pressed into the balsawood.
I still have all of those cars, although the flatcar and caboose are not in use. The A-B-B-A diesels, originally in Santa Fe "Warbonnet" colours, were later painted in CPR grey and maroon, and then later again, re-painted in EG&E double grey and green, now all long gone.
Wayne