05-07-2014, 10:19 AM
Hello!
One and a half dozen of secondhand purchased rollig stock arrived me yesterday. All are freight cars from P2K, Intermountain, Trix and Westerfield. All of these are high grade kits or RTR models.
Time for me to look what is really of rolling stock in my inventory. Too much.
There were old Athearn Blue Box freight cars, some toy train cars from Model Power, AHM and other of this sort. Cars with moulded on details, often rather relative coarse comparised with state-of-the-art models. All of them have had their first outcome (NEW) about in the 1960's.
All of them were upgraded with Kadee #58 couplers, metal wheels and in some cases with body mount coupler boxes years ago when i was becoming an US model railroader. In technical manner they ride satisfiying and make no trouble. But the details ...
Anywhere they have to go. Swapmeet or anything else. But there were the Kadee #58 Scale Head Couplers and the metal wheels. And these cars will only sell on the cheapo side. I do not belive any of this potential swapmeet buyers will pay even a cent more for Kadees and metal wheels.
So started to salvage them.
![[Image: dsc07484yrpaj.jpg]](http://abload.de/img/dsc07484yrpaj.jpg)
Right side an old Blue Box car with Kadee #58 and Kadee wheels.
The Kadee couplers and wheels were demounted and stored.
They were replaced by plastic wheels and the coupler clash like Kadee clones, Mc Henry, EZ and so on; left side on the photo.
Over the years a pretty stock of plastic couplers and plastic wheels has collected which have to go also. And here it is useful.
The salvaged Kadee parts will be very useful when i start building the Westerfield kits and upgrading the P2K and Trix cars.
My attemps to improvements of my rolling stock is to raise the quality level, not the quantity.
Lutz
One and a half dozen of secondhand purchased rollig stock arrived me yesterday. All are freight cars from P2K, Intermountain, Trix and Westerfield. All of these are high grade kits or RTR models.
Time for me to look what is really of rolling stock in my inventory. Too much.
There were old Athearn Blue Box freight cars, some toy train cars from Model Power, AHM and other of this sort. Cars with moulded on details, often rather relative coarse comparised with state-of-the-art models. All of them have had their first outcome (NEW) about in the 1960's.
All of them were upgraded with Kadee #58 couplers, metal wheels and in some cases with body mount coupler boxes years ago when i was becoming an US model railroader. In technical manner they ride satisfiying and make no trouble. But the details ...
Anywhere they have to go. Swapmeet or anything else. But there were the Kadee #58 Scale Head Couplers and the metal wheels. And these cars will only sell on the cheapo side. I do not belive any of this potential swapmeet buyers will pay even a cent more for Kadees and metal wheels.
So started to salvage them.
![[Image: dsc07484yrpaj.jpg]](http://abload.de/image.php?img=dsc07484yrpaj.jpg)
Right side an old Blue Box car with Kadee #58 and Kadee wheels.
The Kadee couplers and wheels were demounted and stored.
They were replaced by plastic wheels and the coupler clash like Kadee clones, Mc Henry, EZ and so on; left side on the photo.
Over the years a pretty stock of plastic couplers and plastic wheels has collected which have to go also. And here it is useful.
The salvaged Kadee parts will be very useful when i start building the Westerfield kits and upgrading the P2K and Trix cars.
My attemps to improvements of my rolling stock is to raise the quality level, not the quantity.
Lutz