Weaver freight cars.

I really like this grain door rib side. Actually, I wish I had purchased all the rib side variations. Sigh.

Good Afternoon Jim,

Thank you, for posting pictures of your two rib-sided Milwaukee Road box cars. They look great. I don't recall ever having any of Weavers rib-sided cars. Thanks again for posting. Please take care and have a wonderful and safe Saturday.

Weaver OGR 100th Issue tank car
and
P.R.R. flat car with 20ft containers.

@PRRMP54 posted:

The only Weaver car that I regret buying, no proper reporting marks:

Given that it totally a fantasy product, does it really need proper reporting marks?   haha

JoeTheBro,

Thank you for posting pictures of your tank car and your flat with containers. Those are two great looking cars to have. Once again thanks for posting and have a wonderful and safe Saturday evening.

@JoeTheBro posted:

Weaver OGR 100th Issue tank car

I have one of those.  It made me wish the OGR had done a commemorative car for the recent 50th anniversary; one that could be easily two-railed.

If its a Weaver car, they are the easiest to convert, that's what they are, they are manufactured as 2 rail.

@jim sutter posted:

Some Weaver freight cars in the store for sale.

Great pictures of your store Jim!

Rod

Jim, I wish I could have gone to you store. Looking at the pictures of your store it must have been a great train store.

I never took this Weaver car out of the box until this morning. Unfortunately, the trucks fell apart when I took it out of the box. I guess I got bit by zinc pest. Oh well, still one of my all time favorite Weaver cars. Very surprised no one else has made cars in this road name since then. I never liked the fact that it came with arch bar trucks so now I have a real excuse to get a more prototypical truck under it.

@Hudson J1e posted:

Jim, I wish I could have gone to you store. Looking at the pictures of your store it must have been a great train store.

I never took this Weaver car out of the box until this morning. Unfortunately, the trucks fell apart when I took it out of the box. I guess I got bit by zinc pest. Oh well, still one of my all time favorite Weaver cars. Very surprised no one else has made cars in this road name since then. I never liked the fact that it came with arch bar trucks so now I have a real excuse to get a more prototypical truck under it.

Umm Phil, you can buy the MTH Bettendorph trucks OR wait for the newest Atlas O trucks for Weaver cars to arrive, Those have the Air Line detail.

Rod and HudsonJ1e,

Thank you both for your kind words. I would of loved to have you both as customers. HudsonJ1e thanks for posting a picture of your Delta Lines box car. I don't believe I ever saw that car. I hope both of you have a wonderful and safe day. 

I have one of the Bessemer cars, it’s always on my layout:

Norm, Thank you for posting pictures of your Bessemer and Lake Erie box car. Great weathering. Norm, please take care thanks for posting and have a wonderful and safe day.

Pardon Me if someone already showed these. Found these in the rafters

@jini5 posted:

Pardon Me if someone already showed these. Found these in the rafters

Those are flat-out gorgeous. Wish I had a set.

Rod

Western Maryland troop sleeper.

I dug out another pile. One still in the shrink wrap. Pics..............Paul 2

Dug this out for a photo.

My very first Weaver purchase.  And I bought it from Jim's Train Shop in Homer City.   Coal load was added later.

Andy

Jini5, Your road railers look great.

trumptrain, Your Western Maryland troop train car is really nice.

Paul2, I love all of your box cars especially the Gray Union Pacific box car.

Thank you to all three of you for posting pictures of your Weaver cars. Should you have more, please post them.

@Andy Hummell posted:

Dug this out for a photo.

My very first Weaver purchase.  And I bought it from Jim's Train Shop in Homer City.   Coal load was added later.

Andy

Love those C & I hoppers.  I read once that they were at one time the richest little railroad in the world or something.

Andy, Thank you for posting our Cambria and Indiana 2-bay offset coal hopper. Hope you are doing good. Andy, please take car and have a wonderful Monday.

@prrhorseshoecurve posted:

Umm Phil, you can buy the MTH Bettendorph trucks OR wait for the newest Atlas O trucks for Weaver cars to arrive, Those have the Air Line detail.

@prrhorseshoecurve Where? I actually have a couple of Weaver cars that came with the MTH made-for-Weaver trucks but I have never seen them for sale anywhere nor have I ever even seen them in any catalog with a part number. I didn’t know Atlas is going to start producing and selling those trucks. I didn’t see that mentioned in any of the announcements. I certainly hope it happens but I am sure it won’t happen anytime soon. Thanks for the information.

MTH a year or so ago started manufacturing the Weaver trucks. You could get the bentendorf or roller bearing trucks with couplers. I was ordering them through Patrick's trains..............Paul 2

Thanks Paul. I will try Pat’s trains. Do you have the part number?

Paul2,

Thank you for that great information about Pats Trains. For those of you that need trucks for your Weaver cars please give him a call. Pat is also a sponsor of this forum.

Beth also stocks the Weaver Trucks made by MTH.

Pete

Hudson J1e, sorry I don't have a part number.............Paul 2

Thanks Paul and Norton. Will do Jim.

Hudson, the MTH 3-Rail Die-cast Weaver Bettendorf trucks 2/pk. are #20-89022. The MTH 3-Rail Die-cast Weaver Roller Bearing trucks are #20-89023. Both have an MSR of $29.95, usually you can get them for slightly less than MSR. These are usually advertised in the back of the MTH catalogs. Looking at the MTH 2020 Volume Two catalog they are on page 150.

Thank you very much Jim. I guessed I missed them in the catalog. I did see the trucks you are talking about a few minutes ago on the Public Delivery Track website (I also looked on Patrick’s but couldn’t find them). I need the 2 rail versions. I could not find them on either website. I am not home right now but I will check the catalog when I get home. Thanks again. When I find them I plan to get 3 or 4 sets.

Jim Sutter, I apologize for hi-jacking your thread. Stay safe and I will post some more pictures when I find my other Weaver cars.

HudsonJ1e, I don't believe you hi-jacked my thread. I'll be glad to see you additional Weaver cars.

Dug out a few more today. Going to have to put back all the ones I got out so far before I can get to more. pics.....Paul 2

What about a Weaver engine hooked to a Weaver car?  With a Weaver car in the background.

P.S. The GP38-2 is a TMCC Dummy unit with sound.

CBS072,

Thank you for posting your Weaver Santa Fe diesel and your Wayne Feeds centerflow hopper. Should you have more Weaver products please post them. Thank you and have a wonderful and safe evening.

Hey guys, one last word on Weaver trucks. I did some research and The Public Delivery Track does have some of the 3 rail MTH made-for-Weaver trucks in stock. The 2 rail versions are not available. I also checked the next to newest MTH catalog and the MTH made-for-Weaver trucks are not listed in the catalog. You an see the differences in these pictures. Left to right is factory MTH 2 rail Bettendorf truck (part #20-89001) , factory Weaver 2 rail steel Bettendorf truck (part #P713), and factory Weaver plastic 2 Rail Bettendorf truck. You can see that the bolster is raised up on the MTH truck and will not work for Weaver cars. Every truck in the MTH catalog has this raised bolster. None look like the Weaver truck. I used 2 rail trucks in these pictures because I had them easily accessible. The same is also true for the 3 rail MTH made-for-Weaver trucks.

The image to the left was copied from the Public Delivery Track Website under the page for the MTH 2 rail Bettendorf truck part #20-89001. I hope that the 2 rail MTH made-for-Weaver trucks become available someday but what I really wish is that I would have stocked up more on the original Weaver metal truck. I only have two sets left. I am not sure what type of metal Weaver used but it isn't die-cast. Those original Weaver metal trucks (middle truck in the upper photos) will never disintegrate like the die-cast ones did. I don't know why Weaver stopped making the metal trucks perhaps they got too expensive?

Now back to the thread. I was able to dig out two of my favorite Weaver cars. The first car was a special run for the Virginian and Ohio (Allen McClellend's famous HO railroad) but I don't know which train store did it. I didn't come with trucks so I put a set of Accurate O scale trucks on it. The second car must have been someone's conversion car coupler wise because it has the typical 3 rail coupler on one side and a Kadee coupler on the other side.

@Hudson J1e posted:

Hey guys, one last word on Weaver trucks. I did some research and The Public Delivery Track does have some of the 3 rail MTH made-for-Weaver trucks in stock. The 2 rail versions are not available. I also checked the next to newest MTH catalog and the MTH made-for-Weaver trucks are not listed in the catalog. You an see the differences in these pictures. Left to right is factory MTH 2 rail Bettendorf truck (part #20-89001) , factory Weaver 2 rail steel Bettendorf truck (part #P713), and factory Weaver plastic 2 Rail Bettendorf truck. You can see that the bolster is raised up on the MTH truck and will not work for Weaver cars. Every truck in the MTH catalog has this raised bolster. None look like the Weaver truck. I used 2 rail trucks in these pictures because I had them easily accessible. The same is also true for the 3 rail MTH made-for-Weaver trucks.

I wonder if it would be possible to use the lower bolster from the plastic truck to replace the “high bolster” on the MTH 2-rail truck.

"I wonder if it would be possible to use the lower bolster from the plastic truck to replace the “high bolster” on the MTH 2-rail truck."

I won't say it is impossible but I think it will be difficult. On the Weaver truck the side frames have protruding "arms" so-to-speak that snap into the bolster. The MTH truck has a bolster that extends into the side frames and is held in only by the springs. It seems like a lot of work and for me personally I would rather spend the little time I have for the hobby on doing something else.

HudsonJ1e, Thank you for posting two of your favorite Weaver cars. The V. and O. tank car I don't recall ever seeing. Your T.P. and W. box car I remember selling them in our store. Thanks again for posting pictures of your Weaver cars. Please take care and have a wonderful and safe Monday. Here is a picture of your T.P. and W. box car sitting on the bottom self for sale in our store.

I retuned to this hobby in 1990 after a void from 1963 when I was a freshman in high school, in 1990 I went one Sunday to the DuPage County Train Show in Wheaton, Il. My first purchases were Gargraves tin plated track and manual switches and Tortouse Switch motors. Next came the Roco gondola cars, Weaver Bettendorf plastic 3 Rail trucks  and the conversions of these gon's with the Weaver trucks. Further trips to this train show yielded the purchase of Intermountain box car, reefer, tank car and flat car kits and Red Caboose tank car kits. Today the vast majority of may box cars are Weaver PS1's and Weaver steel side, covered hopper cars Weaver PS2 and open top Weaver 2 bay and 3 bay hopper cars. I have no Weaver tank cars, these cars are the stub sill design I have Intermountain, Red Caboose, Kline and MTh full length center sill design. I also have some Atlas O  Airslide hopper cars and Pecos River 50 foot box cars and Weaver flat cars. In an overview, I purchased Weaver because they are O scale cars that are convertible to O scale trucks and couplers or Weaver 3 Rail trucks and couplers, good body detail with less fragile detail parts than the O scale kit car, graphics are very good and the cost of these cars was reasonable.

One final comment on Quality Craft Weaver,  Bob Weaver and his staff including Gary were always customer orientated, open to questions, comments and advice in my telephone contacts.