@Caldwell posted:Andre since you are druthering and apparently in no hurry, you might want to check Industrial Rail. The O gauge blue box. An old thread https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...d-to-industrial-rail provides some info.
I and others looked at them for S but except for the caboose they are a tad large and would require hacking. They are within O27, traditional or whatever they are called these days sizes. They were relatively inexpensive when they came out.
Fair warning starting to explore this topic could keep you busy until suppertime.
Missed this until just a few minutes ago.
Thanks for the input, Cal!
Yes, those industrial rail cars are great. I've owned some in the past. However, my "GnC*" syndrome kicked in.
* Gnats n' Camels. You know, that syndrome we modelers have, where we'll gag at a gnat and swallow a camel? Yeah, that one.
My "gnat" with the Industrial Rail cars was their questionable decision to use roller bearing trucks under them. Darn. Perfect for representing the transition era... but with roller bearings? Roller bearings were not in wide spread use during the late-40s/early-50s, especially on such cars as "every day" boxcars, cattle cars, etc.
However, I had several (sold off years ago):
Of course, now I feel pretty stupid.
Case in point, in the boxcars above? Livery wise, all but the Jade Green NYC car would have been right at home (okay, maybe the billboard MILW road car, too) in a late-40s/early-50s setting. I could have figured something out on the roller bearing trucks, or just gone ahead and ignored it. (Sort of hard to do once something draws your eye to it, though.)
And, of course, all the liveries in the tank/hoppers picture were good to go for my "transition" era that I'm now interested in portraying.
BUT, in spite of precieved shortcomings, all of the above rolling stock were "birds in the hand", so to speak. Even that Jade Green NYC car (and the MILW?) could have been stripped and repainted/re-lettered!
Nuther "feeling stupid" thought point: I purchased the above Industrial Line cars for about 10 bucks each "then". Now? Try $35+.
Ah well... spilled milk and all that jazz.
Andre
