Old Kits and Makers, Whatcha Got?

I picked this up off the Bay a few years back.  I've never seen this before or since!  I am aware of the manufacture but didn't realize they made freightcar kits.  I am also fascinated by the mailing label, shipped in 1967 for 90 cents!  

 

The prototype is the one off Southern #100, a unit coal car made by an airplane manufacturing company from aluminum.  I've included a copy of the centerfold of Model Railroader from August 1959.  I wonder if this is a custom job for somebody, or extras from a manufacture's display model job.

 

I don't know if I'll ever build it, but it is fun to look at and dream back to a time before I was born!

Yes, I've heard of Central Loco. Works, and did not know they made car kits.  That is

the kind of thing  I am always curious about.  Windsor is one of the towns the Great

Western sugar beet RR used to serve, AND is on the news now for somebody doing

random shooting.  Watch it out there and were your kevlar!

Mullet River Model Works, still available.

Mullet River, with their web site, is definitely still available, and not an old, vanished

kit builder.  I have built one of their side door cabooses (CB&Q/C&S), and have an

L&N side door kit unbuilt.  I watch them to see if they gin out another side door.

"Whatcha Got?"

 

Conservatively, maybe 15-20 years worth of stuff to build,

I too have a few wood models to build which I know I will never get to. I have 3 quality craft All Door cars. I started one and stopped. I had built one in HO back in the early 70s. and it came out OK but I guess today I have little interest in the project as I have so many other projects that need my attention. 

I should hand them back to my son who grabbed them off E bay and have him build them. He has shown me he is more than qualified to do the job but now he has 2 very young children that takes much of his spare time. I know and experienced  the routine.  

It is nice to know where we have come from in this hobby and now we are so spoiled with the achievements of these manufacturers making model for us. 

I like completing kits. HEre are some Intermountain ones that were upgraded in the details:

  

Boy, those sure don't look like 2-Rail SCALE cars.

Somebody better put the spurs to ya

I'd agree with you there hot water, what gave it away for you? The lobster claws or pizza cutters? I thought you were a 3 rail guy? Why posting on 2 rail forum? You gave me that same advice a few days ago!


       

Old like this?

 

I keep busy....

Here's an Alexander Scale Models kit car.....

 

Because I have a lot of 2-Rail SCALE pieces of rolling stock on my 3-Rail SCALE layout. Maybe we could see some photos of your 2-Rail SCALE layout?

I, too, have and use a lot of, nominally, two rail kits on my three rail layout.  The

three rail manufacturers are loath to get far from the few prototypes and road names

that have been offered for half a century, most of which I have no interest in, and I

vote with my dollars.  I have no objections whatsoever to two-railers gleefully yanking

the lobster claws and pizza cutters off three rail cars, and replacing them,  if and when something they can use is offered by the three rail manufacturers.  I am sure companies active in both areas of concentration appreciate all the business they can get.  I am not the least bit provincial about that.

HOT WATER wouldn't it be more accurate to say that you have 2 rail scale equipment on a 3 rail O gauge layout with some scale size equipment. scale should be reserved for a layout using code148 or smaller rail, accurate ties, all equipment should be scale within the limits of manufacturing or building limits. 3 rail scale is a misnomer in my opinion.

i would like to know the spacing you use between tracks as the only pics i remember you posted showing curves it looks massive. wider than necessary or is it because of tight radius and overhanging pilots(scale?). i am using 4.25 ctc on my layout that's under construction  and will be running PRR Q2's, S1, T1's,J's and BP20's without massive overhang. that is scale with a concession to 5' track gauge.