This is the only photo I could find of it. The car on the right. There are no know color photos, so I chose yellow.
Here a drawing from Sloan’s “A century and 10 of D&RGW narrow gauge cars”.
Here’s my representation. Based on a PNG 27’ boxcar kit with my modifications. Stan Cederleaf decals and riding on Accucraft J&S trucks.
Really nice adaptation John.
Nice!
Hi,
Good looking car - don’t forget the wind assist bit on top of the bent vents on the roof.
Congratulations, does Stan still have the decals master so I could ask for a copy please?
Yours Peter
Very nice model of a most unusual car! Love those trucks!
I shall now smash my vent. box car as no longer worthy…
I confess I find those roof exhausts more than a bit odd-looking, so this prototype wouldn’t be my exact cup of tea, because of them. Picky, picky…
That said, goodness knows I admire your modelwork here, John. You’ve done a really clean and careful job, and your work shows up nicely. That car - even with those crazy stacks - would be most welcome anytime on my Old Late and Slow. I have several running mates & a couple of locos for it, too!
PS: did you notice the brakewheel on that car? It’s as crooked as some of mine are! There really IS a prototype for everything!
Wow! Very nice work John!!!
Thanks, Guys!
Peter,
I noticed that the roof vents looked bigger in the picture than the drawing. I did fuss with those vanes a little.
I chose the taller vents from the photo. When I mocked up the vanes, it looked wrong to me, so I scratched that. But my vents do swivel. I think they must have run these towards the rear of the train so they wouldn’t fill up with smoke from the loco.
Yes, Stan has the masters. I built it in 1:20.3, and after a couple emails to each other, we came out with the correct size. Go for it!
John,
Those brake wheels were abused to no end. I have old video from the early D&RGW and the brakemen carry a steel bar with them to turn the wheel. Most of mine are a little crooked as well, but not intentional.
Mark,
Aw, no need to smash your ventilated box car. Mine is no where near a “museum piece”. I always fudge a bit. That makes the car unique to your railroad. My next build is a totally fictitious car for narrow gauge.
In fact, John Le inspired me with his pickle car build.
Nice Job John. You are getting quite the collection of cars.
Hi John,
Very nice work on your ventlated boxcar. Like the paint and weathering also.
Chuck
Great looking car Jon!!! Now I know why we haven’t heard from you lately for coffee. You are truely a “Master Builder”.
Chuck
Not a “master”, Chuck. Far from it. I still get glue on everything and don’t have much patience.
There are guys here whom are my gurus. Heck, if I can do this, anyone can.
Here’s an end view showing the lower vent.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/jebouck/ventreeflas2.jpg)
What did you use for the base? Wood?
Curious about the trucks…Are thos REA/Aristo passenger trucks or custom?
Still looks sweet!
That end view - OH YEAH !!! Big cheers from up here in Toronto!
Yep, it’s wood.
Those are accucraft Jackson & Sharp passenger car trucks, like shown in the drawing.
I was inspired by John’s excellent scratch build to modify an existing Delton California Fruit Line car for passenger service. The car bares a little resemblance to John’s outline drawing. Bachmann passenger trucks were fitted enabling the car to run on regular passenger services.
Fitting the trucks presented few problems. The coupler talgo mount required drastic shortening plus the lower end brakeshaft stirrup required repositioning upwards slightly to enable swing clearance for the truck. A simple but worthwhile conversion.
I have a question regarding the second car in John’s prototype photograph above. The car was made by LGB many years ago and is considered one of their better representations of a difficult livery. As the car most likely would have run with passenger services one must assume that the car was fitted with passenger trucks like the ventilated Fruit Line car in front of it. It is hard to tell from the photograph whether archbar or passenger trucks are fitted.
Tim,
Those were class 2-r 30’ reefers and ran with regular archbar trucks.
No’s 100 -119, 1881.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/jebouck/Billboard2r.jpg)
John,
much appreciated.
