Yeah I wish we had some snow now! It's been mid 90s. The sun is like a laser beam at these higher altitudes. Funny how lots of people think Denver is cold...Hope you're doing great!
@ChicagoCrossingRR Yeah it's been in the 90s in Anderson Indiana too!! I'm doing great, sitting in a dock right now in Madison Alabama waiting for my trailer to be loaded and my paper work finished so I can head home!! I've got some train action though, two leased GP40-2S are getting the Auto Racks from the Toyota assembly plant ready to transfer to the NS interchange!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@conrailfan6277 that's a heck of a haul from Alabama. That's Buc-ee's territory isn't it? Love the ralilroading plan. Get home safe, those Toyotas aren't going to sell themselves from the plant!!
@ChicagoCrossingRR Buc-ees is about 5 miles from the plant on 65 South exit 347!! We, My Wife and I, bring down front suspension parts to YKTA then we take empty racks back to Anderson Indiana, Sunday to Friday afternoon, it's about 5k miles a week, and the money's good!! We've been drivers for this company 20 years now!!!
Eric, a very informative review on the car. I have the older container cars that I have converted to body mounted couplers but will have to look into JT cars. Thanks for sharing
Cool for sure. Since your´s broken and bad order, you can fix it or use it as a private bridge to gain access to your house, land, field. Many real ones end their days like that. Remove trucks and coupler, add wood planks, abutments and voilà . Grandpa can now go fishing without tumbling in the river.😊
Wow, that’s a very well detailed model. I too run away from factory weathered models. They always seem a bit ham handed, and lacking fine detail. I really like the versatility with container configuration. I frequently find linking up with a single car a challenge and I do think it’s an “N” scale thing. Glad they included the explosion diagram, lol. Thanks for posting.
Yeah the problem of underweight cars (and in this case maybe an overly beefy coupler that's hard to actuate). It's a nice model because it can realistically be used as a one-off container load in a local or manifest freight.
I love bad translations like "explosion diagram". That car is so light the loco just pushes it away. If you weighted the containers it normally carried it could help.
Interesting, when you put on a lovely weathered container, you don't notice that the car is not weathered. I am sure it would be easy to add some weight to the inside of the contained to get the overall weight up.
The beauty of a flatcar I suppose :). Also a good point regarding weight. These containers all have removable bases with a magnet inside for stacking so it's easy enough to get in there and hide a few grams of mass.
Hi Julian, there are a variety of buildings on the layout. It's a mix of kits from Walthers, DPM, some scratchbuilds/kitbashes, a few 3D prints and some pre-builts as space filler.
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Broooo Lombard hobbies is absolutely awesome. I go there 2-3 times a week, occasionally walking out with something. Fantastic hobby shop.
I agree!
Nice review, just a day after I talked to you last I saw you got
dumped on by a blizzard!!
😂😂😂😂😂 Hopefully
you have some good weather now!!!
Yeah I wish we had some snow now! It's been mid 90s. The sun is like a laser beam at these higher altitudes. Funny how lots of people think Denver is cold...Hope you're doing great!
@ChicagoCrossingRR Yeah it's been in the 90s in Anderson Indiana
too!! I'm doing great, sitting in a dock
right now in Madison Alabama waiting for my trailer to be loaded
and my paper work finished so I
can head home!! I've got some train
action though, two leased GP40-2S
are getting the Auto Racks from the
Toyota assembly plant ready to transfer to the NS interchange!!!
👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@conrailfan6277 that's a heck of a haul from Alabama. That's Buc-ee's territory isn't it? Love the ralilroading plan. Get home safe, those Toyotas aren't going to sell themselves from the plant!!
@ChicagoCrossingRR Buc-ees is about 5 miles from the plant on 65
South exit 347!! We, My Wife and I,
bring down front suspension parts
to YKTA then we take empty racks
back to Anderson Indiana, Sunday
to Friday afternoon, it's about 5k miles a week, and the money's good!! We've been drivers for this
company 20 years now!!!
Looks right from a Carmans perspective. I saw and worked on quite a few of these cars in past years.
That's the perspective that really counts too!
Eric, a very informative review on the car. I have the older container cars that I have converted to body mounted couplers but will have to look into JT cars. Thanks for sharing
You bet Will - glad this was helpful!
nice looking detailed rolling stock, Buy More!! 😂
I do so others don't have to ;) - a terrible problem to be sure!
Cool for sure. Since your´s broken and bad order, you can fix it or use it as a private bridge to gain access to your house, land, field. Many real ones end their days like that. Remove trucks and coupler, add wood planks, abutments and voilà . Grandpa can now go fishing without tumbling in the river.😊
I think I'll probably use a dab of CA before resorting to a full decommisioning 😅
👍@@ChicagoCrossingRR
Wow, that’s a very well detailed model. I too run away from factory weathered models. They always seem a bit ham handed, and lacking fine detail. I really like the versatility with container configuration. I frequently find linking up with a single car a challenge and I do think it’s an “N” scale thing. Glad they included the explosion diagram, lol. Thanks for posting.
Yeah the problem of underweight cars (and in this case maybe an overly beefy coupler that's hard to actuate). It's a nice model because it can realistically be used as a one-off container load in a local or manifest freight.
I love bad translations like "explosion diagram". That car is so light the loco just pushes it away. If you weighted the containers it normally carried it could help.
@@markh.6687 very likely that would help. Thanks for the suggestion!
Interesting, when you put on a lovely weathered container, you don't notice that the car is not weathered.
I am sure it would be easy to add some weight to the inside of the contained to get the overall weight up.
The beauty of a flatcar I suppose :). Also a good point regarding weight. These containers all have removable bases with a magnet inside for stacking so it's easy enough to get in there and hide a few grams of mass.
Maybe that part was broken as part of the weathering? "Authentic In-Use Damage"!
It's certainly the more charitable way to think about it...
Wow, nice car but $40-$50 for a piece of rolling stock? Lots of nice stuff out there these days, but I can’t justify those kind of prices.
Can you put a second level of containers on it?
You could, though I wouldn’t vouch for its handling of curves 😃
Where do you get all of your buildings?
Hi Julian, there are a variety of buildings on the layout. It's a mix of kits from Walthers, DPM, some scratchbuilds/kitbashes, a few 3D prints and some pre-builts as space filler.
@@ChicagoCrossingRR Thank you, they all look really good.