04-08-2022, 11:22 PM
Tichy offers some kits for decent-looking 40' flatcars, based on some real 50 ton flatcars built by ACF in 1928....a good match, I think, for your 1931 tractors.
The car has straight sidesills, with 12 stake pockets and a fishbelly underframe. There's a metal weight, included in the kit, which fits into the underframe.
The car comes with one-piece Bettendorf-style trucks, with plastic wheelsets.
Here's a photo of one of mine, lettered for my hometown TH&B...
(Archbar trucks were banned from interchange on July 1st, 1940)...the TH&B had 1500 65 ton hoppers, all on archbar trucks, built in 1914, with some operating well into the '60s...their interchange occurred only on lakeboats....empties (along with rolls of newsprint) were sent across Lake Erie, to Ashtabula, Ohio for loading with coal, for the steelmills in Hamilton, Ontario.)
The Tichy flatcar kits were also a good starting point for some scratchbuilt gondolas...
...and I also added a cinder car for my freelanced EG&E...
...but it too is a copy of a TH&B prototype.
Here's a LINK to the Tichy catalogue. You can order direct from Tichy.
Wayne
The car has straight sidesills, with 12 stake pockets and a fishbelly underframe. There's a metal weight, included in the kit, which fits into the underframe.
The car comes with one-piece Bettendorf-style trucks, with plastic wheelsets.
Here's a photo of one of mine, lettered for my hometown TH&B...
(Archbar trucks were banned from interchange on July 1st, 1940)...the TH&B had 1500 65 ton hoppers, all on archbar trucks, built in 1914, with some operating well into the '60s...their interchange occurred only on lakeboats....empties (along with rolls of newsprint) were sent across Lake Erie, to Ashtabula, Ohio for loading with coal, for the steelmills in Hamilton, Ontario.)
The Tichy flatcar kits were also a good starting point for some scratchbuilt gondolas...
...and I also added a cinder car for my freelanced EG&E...
...but it too is a copy of a TH&B prototype.
Here's a LINK to the Tichy catalogue. You can order direct from Tichy.
Wayne