My 1st attempt at a MTA garbage flat car. 🚇

Nice job Chris!

George

I love it, I assume the brown creatures  on the garbage bags are fearsome NYC rats? All you need is a couple of intrepid NYC cats, only things crazy enough to go after the rats, climbing up the side of the car ready to rumble *lol*. 

Very nice Chris. The bags look great and the rats are a nice touch too....but where's pizza rat??????

bigkid posted:

I love it, I assume the brown creatures  on the garbage bags are fearsome NYC rats? All you need is a couple of intrepid NYC cats, only things crazy enough to go after the rats, climbing up the side of the car ready to rumble *lol*. 

That’s a great idea! A couple of mean NYC cats will take care of them! 🐭🐱

In case anyone is interested I found a guy on EBay that 3D prints these. He made them the length I needed. 

Great work Chris!  I have to ask.  How were the garbage bags created/modeled?

I had to figure that out but it was pretty simple.  I took a bag from Lowe’s and cut it into squares then cut up small pieces of a cheap foam brush and put them in the middle. I brought all the corners together and twisted it then secured it with stranded wire I stripped the insulation off and put some Gorilla glue gel and let it dry. Trim off the top and glued them in. 

Thanks Chris.  It's amazing what ideas the members on this forum come up with.

Hello Chris -

THAT is a very very good and realistically acceptable well detailed representation of an MTA Transit (or any transit system) trash collection car -- well weathered also.  Great job !!  Impressive modeling job !

regards - JOE F

Wow!!!! That is great!!! Not being a scratch builder??? A 10000 times better than what I could ever do!

     Good Job Chris...  

Terrific final product Chris, well done, nice details.

Andy

(thumbs up) 

Mitch

Not directly related, but always made me wonder if the guys running the garbage train had gotten some boss angry at him/her.... that is so well done it brought back memories of being on a subway platform late night and one  of those coming through, also brought back the smell, too (that I wouldn't model, though)

Pretty awesome stuff there Chris, and as was noted the garbage bags really tied it together as a scene. I've seen these go by and have pictures somewhere - very cool and thanks for sharing.

Paul

Very nice modeling, Chris.  And I tip my hat to you for thinking to model such a train.

Since I live out on the prairie, I'm not even slightly familiar with the trash pickup operation in the New York subways.  Does this train get pulled by a dinky diesel locomotive?  Or is it a little electric locomotive?  Is this strictly a nighttime operation?  Do workers, by schedule, collect garbage at a certain hour for that station, and stage it at the edge of the platform for collection by this train soon thereafter?  Does the train have a regular schedule of its own, so that it fits between regular subway trains without delaying them?

Please pardon my ignorance.  This is very interesting to me.

And -- saving the big question for last -- does our own Ben (blueline4) ever run this train?  Maybe he'll tell us.

Chris Lonero posted:

I had to figure that out but it was pretty simple.  I took a bag from Lowe’s and cut it into squares then cut up small pieces of a cheap foam brush and put them in the middle. I brought all the corners together and twisted it then secured it with stranded wire I stripped the insulation off and put some Gorilla glue gel and let it dry. Trim off the top and glued them in. 

Chris -- that idea for making small O-Scale size filled trash bags is amazing and the results look very realistic !  Great work  and innovation modeling !

Regards - Joe F

Thanks for all the kind words guys. I ‘m certainly no expert on the MTA system especially with the MBTA in my own back yard but based on what I’ve seen most of the trash pick ups happen at night like most other maintenance when the system is not being used by the public. The train can be pulled by a diesel but I have seen mostly old passenger service subway cars put into M.O.W operations.  Are friends from New York like Ben,Zach and many others from the area can tell us much more than a local Boston kid!   “Just don’t bring up the Patriots “ 🏈🤫

Number 90 posted:

Very nice modeling, Chris.  And I tip my hat to you for thinking to model such a train.

Since I live out on the prairie, I'm not even slightly familiar with the trash pickup operation in the New York subways.  Does this train get pulled by a dinky diesel locomotive?  Or is it a little electric locomotive?  Is this strictly a nighttime operation?  Do workers, by schedule, collect garbage at a certain hour for that station, and stage it at the edge of the platform for collection by this train soon thereafter?  Does the train have a regular schedule of its own, so that it fits between regular subway trains without delaying them?

Please pardon my ignorance.  This is very interesting to me.

And -- saving the big question for last -- does our own Ben (blueline4) ever run this train?  Maybe he'll tell us.

Refuse trains are pulled by purpose-built box motors designated R127 or R134, and sometimes R62 or retired R36 "redbird" subway cars are added when conditions warrant air-conditioning for the crews. A typical train has a box-motor/subway car on either end bracketing three refuse flats carrying two rows of narrow dumpsters that are swapped at each station from an enclosure where the station porter deposits trash bags collected from regular waste bins on the platform. The flatcars are the same length width as IRT rolling stock, are equipped with standard freight roller-bearing trucks, MU couplers for pass-through control to the trailing motors, and headlight/taillights beneath the anticlimber.

Ben, as far as I know is in regular passenger subway service. I believe the refuse train assignments are rather high-seniority posts but I haven't investigated that. He's in a far better position to to fill you in on that.

---PCJ