Gents,

Many moons ago on eBay I managed to scoop up these two gems. They both have unique roadnames and I'm simply just trying to find out some information to who they previously belonged to. The top one with the badly damaged decals is from the Zig Zag and Crooked River Railroad and has a really neat herald. Since then I've cleaned up the car, threw a coat of Dullcote on it to prevent the decals from coming off further, and put some Kadee's on it. Since it's a wood kit it's a little light so it doesn't see much action and I'm afraid to open it up to stick more weight in it in fear of damaging it. The bottom car is from the Johnson and Big Beaver Valley Railway (love that railroad :mrgreen: ) and originally had narrow gauge trucks under it and N scale couplers. I believe the car was just a standard gauge car that someone took a pair of narrow gauge trucks and put it underneath to suit their needs, now she rolls with a pair of standard gauge arch bars and a #5 on each end and looks normal. In addition to some Dullcote on her to keep the decals from coming off I put some Micro-Set on the herald, it doesn't seem like it's a decal but simply a thin piece of paper glued onto the car. Both cars are currently in storage as I'm in Korea otherwise I'd show what they look like now with my modifications.

Any tidbits of info would be great and interesting to know.

Here is a bit of info on the Zig Zag and Crooked River:
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willie

santafewillie Wrote:Here is a bit of info on the Zig Zag and Crooked River:
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willie

While I don't think that's the correct prototype for the boxcar in my possesion, I can now look into model railroaders who owned layouts that may have that possible name thanks to my 1956 copy of the NMRA Railroad Directory in that area. I'll have to have my wife send it to me as I didn't pack that with to bring to Korea.

At first I was thinking that could have been spawned off of something from the Pacific Northwest, as there was a railroad out there called the Crooked River Railroad. But who knows, I like the mystery both of these cars have.