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Quintessential Rolling Stock

Modeling Rolling stock
#1

I like toy trains, I enjoy just looking at them as much as running them. So I got to thinking during a recent running session, "What car/engine DEFINES a brand.

I think with LGB it has to be the rhb resturaunt car, to me it just screams LGB. The quality and detail are near the pinnacle of mass produced toy trains. The best car they ever did, or anyone else, in my opinion.

USA’s reefers are astounding, unbelievable detail for an off the shelf model. The SantaFe Chief line looks absolutely awsome as a string behind an older deisel or steam engine.

REA’s drop end gondolas are really neat, no one else seams to have decided to model these.

Lionel dis such a great job on their ore cars, it was all but impossible to find a “short” ore car anywhere else (I know MDC had them but they never looked “right” to me, the couplers kept the cars too far apart I think). My USA GP is always hauling around a line of these. And I really liked their tank cars.

Is it silly to have a favorite model within a line? Anyone else have similar thoughts?

#2

I like my MDC reefers/boxcars with my Aristo Mikado, just seems to look better than the Aristo cars. Mostly my favorite cars are the ones I’ve made.

#3

I like running my Mallet with a string of USA ore cars even if the cars are not close coupled. Later RJD

#4

“What car/engine DEFINES a brand.”

Bachmann: 4-6-0 Bug Mauler

Aristo: FA-1

LGB: 0-4-0 Stainz (thats so obvious :wink: )

USA: GP-9

Accucraft: C-16 Bumble Bee

#5

Mark,

I’ve read your post four times - with intervals in between :wink: - but … the Gourmino? Forget it, if anything it has to be the “Stainz” (just like the Man wrote!). That is quintessential; as legend has it Wolfgang Richter fiddled with the proportions of that item 'til they pleased him. And the quintessence of LGB (EPL): adjust and fiddle 'til it is pleasing, we ain’t building models! :wink: :slight_smile: