Let’s See Your M.O.W. Trains!

Always standing by for action.

Mine is based on Canton railroad.

Charlie

Santa Fe MOW after the double door 50' boxcar was removed from revenue service.

Pecos River Brass 50' box car in express service.

Same car after a wash of 10:1diluted white paint.

K-Line flat car with 2 rail wheelsets on wood 'rails'.  The wheels nearest the centerline of the car have a touch of rubber cement to hold them in place.

K-line potable water tank car and Weaver sand hopper.

K-Line flat car with a Lionel bashed caboose and parts from the things box. At the rear is a bashed Williams heavyweight observation car.

John in Lansing, ILL

I love MOW equipment!

A Lionel Burro crane with trailers made from four wheel gondolas from a starter set

MTH Railking crane that I modified and weathered

Lionel NYC TMCC crane

Wreck train on the move

Tom

Love the pictures. 

On the FUBAR, we are ready for anything....(mainly major derailments!)

0-8-0 and searchlight car 

Moe and Joe are ready to help and we have rails and wheels ready to go

Welding and serious digging- (not too good a shot at the earth mover)

finally, heavy lifting and the service caboose.

Lay the cable

bust the rock

drive the poles home

putt putt or sedan?

Water tank maintenance

, Vanagon again, & again & again.      'cept there buses.

plowed through the easy finds

Some custom work here....
I gutted the MTH DC-3 and installed ERR electronics to convert to TMCC and I painted most of these cars in UP MOW green...

Most of these cars are custom painted in MP & M derrick train service silver.

MOW Department on the CBS Railroad...

Here's mine running past the beach. 

I don't have an MOW train, but when I do, I have several loads for the Weaver wood side gondolas, including tie loads, old ties, muck loads, ballast, and parts crate, ties and ballast loads. I do have one PARR MOW gondola. I have been looking for a crane and tender set. 

Big Hook and MOW equipment on the Free State Junction Railway. 

I have enough cars for a PRR MoW consist but they are the wrong color for my era  They are yellow, but in the 40s PRR MoW equipment were gray. One of these days I will get them out of storage, set up an assembly line and paint them all gray.  Need to find good decals first.  

Yellow is so much more visually appealing maybe you could make an exception here. 

Cnj Ashley service train I’m slowly making.  Have a few changes to make 

   Made this CN wreck train for Grandson #1. Boom car was made from MTH TOFC car.

Weed spraying 

A few MOW pics.

Rattler and CBS, I assume that is a crane tender, but first time I have seen that. Any links or history? Very cool.

Great shots and ideas on this thread. I was happy with my mow but not so much anymore, my York list has a few more items.

rattler21 posted:

CBS072 posted:

MOW Department on the CBS Railroad...

Keith, nice job.  For your reference:

John in Lansing, ILL

Thanks.  The boom car is made from a Williams passenger car center plus the trucks  and 2 Lionel O scale gons. The parts set on a 2 inch wide strip of Aluminum from Lowe's.   The car is 99 scale feet long, I did not check the length till after I built it.  It is my longest car and was used to check clearances when I built my layout.  Living in Santa Fe territory I had seen the real boom cars a few times, but built the car when a moved to Arkansas,

The section gang has the Burro crane out for a spin:

Tom

Ted, who made the Daylight Crain car? Did they make the tender for it also? I saw the real one in the Saco shops. Don

TedW posted:

Don, both Lionel products:  6-81881 Legacy Crane and 6-81886 Boom Car.(sounds and crew talk)

Santa Fe work train

Ted, they even got the number right, #7070. I was thinking of getting a set for my SP friend but with all the electronics, I think I'll just tell him about it. LOL The tender is a different type, I guess they used one they already had. All and all, it looks great.

Don

Here's four pics of an NYC Marx wrecker I have been putting together from wrecks   Each of the cars has needed work, just new ends in the case of the gondola and some repositioning of the handrails and a coupler on the tanker.  The boom tender/work caboose needed to be reassembled and glued back together.  The crane needed to be restrung and needed a truck side.  The three screw posts inside the cab had been broken, so I had to trim off the jagged ends and glue (JB Weld) new posts in place in order to screw the cab back to the floor.  Four more pieces saved and put back to work!

CBS072 posted:

MOW Department on the CBS Railroad...

The boom says Amarillo, bit both look like the Newton derrick after it was painted blue.  The tender also looks like the one in Newton.

Here is a fun video of my MOW equipment from 9 years ago. It includes the MTH Weed Sprayer, Lionel Jet Snow Blower, crane re-railing segment and an MTH Detector Car finding a major 3 rail problem.

TJ

New York Central Big Hook

B&O MOW

I purchased this inexpensive MOW car at a train show to really perform layout maintenance!

These end-of-train gang cars are a mixture of MTH, K-Line, and PRB.  After this video was made, I sold the MTH Premier tank car and replaced it with its RailKing counterpart which is 10x more realistic.

Great Video! But I gotta ask, how long and how much trouble was it for you to set up the Fastrack? What I mean is how much tweaking (if any) did you have to do to get your trains to run so smoothly on it? I can't get mine to run on a floor layout like that for beans! It's at least an hour of tweaking just to get all the electrical connections right. TIA.

Davety posted:

Here's mine running past the beach. 

Hi. Would you have more video or images of your beach wall backdrop? Very nice.

Thank you

Paul

Railrunnin posted:

Davety posted:

Here's mine running past the beach. 

Hi. Would you have more video or images of your beach wall backdrop? Very nice.

Thank you

Paul

I took that picture at the Outer Banks in Duck circa 2005. I had bagsoflove.com print it for me.

Good evening, although this is not a MOW with a crane, this train on my layout is pushing a V plow and and a hopper car modified with a rigging to knock icicles from inside the tunnel portals and the roofs on my winter layout.

The motive power today is a Pennsy B6.