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I received this beauty from Norm a few days ago. Should look beautiful behind my Key E units in increased demand passenger train consists.

The car came with the usual extra parts (air lines and cut bars) which I will add later... just checking the tracking. The full allied cushion trucks surpass PSC's version by a mile. many more rigging parts and ball bearings of course. Spectacular!



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They look like state of the art - can we get any better and still be on five foot gauge?

Just telling my flying buddies I would not do anything different if I was rich (except get a PBY type rating, and maybe solo a P51 Mustang) but maybe - just maybe -I would have a layout and rolling stock like the above.  Maybe.

When I first began making the transition to O scale (in the early '90s) I had a subscription to the Proto:48 newsletter; at that time it was not much more than maybe  6 pages, printed on yellow paper in blue ink. I still have all 10(?) issues before they went exclusively online.

I was fascinated by that approach, even though I knew it was beyond my skill set and wallet.

And in as much as I am enjoying my OW5 and 3 rail stuff, when I see what Norm and others like Sarah are doing, I am still equally fascinated.

Just beautiful...

Mark in Oregon

Santiago -  I note your car now has couplers.  I purchased the C&NW express boxcar from Protocraft. Thought I would just pop in my traditional Kadee couplers, but the coupler box would not fit between the steam line and air line brackets. So, I obtained some Protocraft cou[plers (manufactured by BooRim), but, alas, the screw holes do not line up.   What coupler have you used on your SantaFe car? What modifications did you make to get the couplers to fit?   mark s

Mark, I used the Protocraft couplers and boxes that came with the car. To use the protocraft couplers on their cars  you need to use the pprotocraft coupler boxes. Kadee boxes don’t line up.  See image below. Since I’m not interested in operations, I do modify the couplers for a better look. Hence the solder under the coupler head.

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Santiago, did your coupler box center screw hole align with the screw hole in the car? Seems like my coupler box is too long;  wonder if there are different sized boxes? Also seems to be too long for the car's frame with the box overhanging the end of the car. It would appear that you did not have to do any cutting to make it fit - your's looks "hand in glove".     Thank you for responding.    mark s

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A misunderstanding here? That Walthers car pictured is an HO scale model and NOT a built up 1950s o scale kit comprised of stamped aluminum sides and wood with nails. Just to be clear.

As far a home builds go Gene Diemling’s builds are at Protocraft level using styrene and brass, he uses trucks by Protocraft and Rich Yoder.



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Jefferson built this Athearn kit and modified it extensively using modern parts such as doors from Intermountain Railway Co and Weaver Allied trucks. It’s the best build I’ve seen of these old timers with all these modifications using modern detail parts, Modern paint and modern decal’s, makes for a nice car, but it’s no Protocraft model and Jefferson is easily on par with Gene Diemling one of the best builders today  

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