06-07-2020, 10:55 AM
(06-06-2020, 09:30 PM)tompm Wrote: ...I do have these two cars I stumbled across on Ebay about a month ago. I had never seen anything like them before. They were labeled as pickle cars....
Those are Athearn cars, Tom, and the sprung metal trucks are very likely the original ones which came with the cars.
I had the open-sided version, in boxcar red with yellow tanks, but later decided to downgrade it to a MoW car, perhaps carrying water for lineside brush fires.
Later still, I re-built it as an older truss-rod pickle car, with some improved details.
I would post photos, but pictures from the "new & improved" photobucket will not show on this site. Instead, the word "undefined" appears where the picture should be.
The photobucket pictures will appear on the MR Forums, but are very tedious to find (the "new" site has duplicated or triplicated the photos in my albums, and put each "album" on a single scroll-able page, which means that it takes much longer to find a particular photo.) Once a photo is selected, the next step, after posting it somewhere, is to hit the "Back" button, which takes you right back to the beginning of that album, so that I can now re-scroll through six or seven hundred photos to find the next one that I want to post.
I will likely quit the MR Forums altogether, and my presence here will be somewhat curtailed. Unless photobucket gets its act together, they will be gone, too.
For me to post photos here, as attachments, is also somewhat tedious, as each photo needs to be re-sized. On this computer, that is done, as far as I'm aware, one photo at-a-time.
Anyway, enough of my rant...photobucket seems to have become deaf.
Wayne