Roo posted:
Those slag cars remind me of the numerous containers of Dole and Del Monte fruit cups I've gone through in the past few months. When I first started buying them, I thought the empty cups looked an awful lot like slag car pots, which got me to thinking if I could scratch-build slag carriers around them, since if it could be done, there'd be enough for a whole mess of them, even in the form of the twin-pot unit in the photo.
The amount of scratchbuilding needed to make just one of them however dissuaded me from such a loony scheme. That and the non-practicality of having that many of these kinds of oddballs lurking about a layout (or even my bare loop) with not even an implied steelmaking infrastructure (and I also have three-packs of both the MTH and Lionel versions).
That leaves me with an impressive teetering stack of the empty cups, awaiting either the motivation to bundle them up for a trip to a recycling bin, or to distribute to someone/s mad enough to experiment with them 
---PCJ
