John was interested in my rolling stock work, so I thought I would share one. Most of my work has been upgrades and mods to available models, but I do have one scratch built project.
During the 70’s and 80’s, thousands of steel rotary gons were put into service in Western Canada hauling coal and sulphur. I currently have seven under construction, six coal and one sulpher. ( 4xCN / 1xProcor / 1xBCNE / 1xSultran ) A four foot length of styrene cut to the right length gives me 14 car sides. I would like to complete a twenty car coal train eventually as I find in the videos I have watched, twenty cars looks like a real train. As these were built over twenty years, there are many minor variants. Many of these cars are still in service, but are slowly being replaced with aluminum cars.
The cars sit on an aluminum channel, and will be equipped with Kadee couplers and trucks.
Below are two photos of the basic model. Detail, ladders, air and brakes still need to be added.
Shane
