Since I got suckered into buying a GP-9 to make a St Maries River Railroad loco I will need some cars to go with it. They used old fish belly flat cars, cut the decks off of them and added bunks to make log cars. It would be nice to have say five of these to pull behind that geep. The prototype looks like this
And I found these Aristo flats on Ebay that would be a perfect starting platform.
Does anyone have a few they would want to part with at a member friendly price?
Devon
That was a good price, how much more friendly do you want? (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
Hey I like very friendly… No I have no problem with those prices at all and there are several available. I just would rather do business here among friends instead of eBay. I would gladly pay the same here. Someone may have had some to unload.
Devon,
I’ve got an Airsto drop end gondola that I’m willing to part with. But I think you would be better off with the flat, or scratchbuilding the whole thing! Or better yet, it would be an easy project for you to dip your toes into resin casting… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)Build one, and then cast as many copies as you want.
Yeah I don’t want to get crazy tearing apart a gondola. The flat would be good starting point. I have also thought about scratch building them. What I had not thought about was building one as a kit and casting parts to reproduce the others. That’s an interesting idea. I could build say five ten a hundred of them
I have already dipped my toes as I am casting a few parts now for my freight cars. This would be a fun next step.
I do not have an Aristo flat, But I know that the Aristo cars I do have, have the frame and bottom of the car floor, cast as one piece. So it would not be easy to peal off the floor and expose the frame. So scratch-building a master, and casting what you need, may be your better choice anyway.
David,
I made one of these in HO out of a fish belly flat car kit. I had to separate the deck from the side frames.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/devon_sinsley/IMG_20150504_192416_647.jpg)
It is not an easy task and does not tackle any of the under carriage framing. So I appreciate your advice against trying to take the deck off of the Aristo car. I think your right I may be wisest to just tackle it from scratch. Making castings and then being able to reproduce them in kit form It should be rather easy (yeah right).
The one Aristo flat that I have (not for sale at any price) appears too short for your needs. I’m in the build your own chorus. You’ve got nothing else going on, right? (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-innocent.gif)
Yeah…no, I’m good. Nothing else on my plate at all.
OK the consensus is built it from scratch and mold it. I will do that right after I finish my #3 mogul build and I finish the Geep I haven’t even gotten yet, and right after I finish the fleet of 1:20 cars.
Hey look I must be a large scale modeler, sounds like I have the same problem as everyone else to many big ideas and not enough time to do them.
Gee where have I heard that before?
You were warned grass hopper!
Yer Bud
Found it!!
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John Caughey said:
Gee where have I heard that before?
You were warned grass hopper!
Yer Bud
Ha, I know I know… Still working on that first pipe dream.
Devon said… Still working on that first pipe dream.
Devon;
Resin factory restarted yet ?
Stumbled across your thread just yesterday.
Looked in a Aristo 41100 covered gondola undec. kit, yellow box.
as shown by Robert;
http://aristodatabase.x10host.com/?prodid=41100&year=
Sides are detached(, as shown). Wondering how a person would cut off the upper panel section… band saw or even slower by hand saw ?
btw, MNIB 37usd + shpg ($50cdn.+sh) ea.
doug c
p.s. less than 7.5hrs n.e of your stated location. lol
Doug Cannon said:
Devon;
Resin factory restarted yet ?
Stumbled across your thread just yesterday.
Looked in a Aristo 41100 covered gondola undec. kit, yellow box.
as shown by Robert;
http://aristodatabase.x10host.com/?prodid=41100&year=
Sides are detached(, as shown). Wondering how a person would cut off the upper panel section… band saw or even slower by hand saw ?
btw, MNIB 37usd + shpg ($50cdn.+sh) ea.
doug c
p.s. less than 7.5hrs n.e of your stated location. lol
Doug are you saying you have some of these? And where exactly are you? I am in Canada frequently with my son’s Hockey. I was just in Castlegar and at some point I will be in Nelson.
Looking at the drop sided gondola I think i could make it work and cutting them would be a breeze. I would have to see one up close to see what it would take.
I have not fired up the resin factory yet as I have some other projects that need done first. But I wouldn’t be opposed to collecting a few cars in 1:29 to play with the GP-9 even if I don’t bash them.
Devon;
2- MNIB
Just remembered another possible source, of Aristo’ twin flats packs via our regional g-gauge vendor ! Sent ya a PM with that contact info.
YYC = Calgary, the other side of the continental divide ! Home of Canada’s largest train show, http://www.supertrain.ca/
Jeepers according to google maps it is only a few min. further, direct to here from PostFalls vs Nelson, b.c. probably ‘cause it is further west in another mountain valle’. Too bad your son’s league is not affiliated with a southern Alberta league but the mtns will do that 
Shucks maybe ‘roll-the-dice’, for if the exchange rate is basically the same in April make a run up to the show . . . you would not be the only u.s. train fans to pop up for it !
doug c
p.s. Nooow if your shortline needed a back-up to that GP (ex.?), you might also been interested in at least another GP (MNIB undec’d, 210usd +s’) to represent another GP unit (101,or 103?) or even a (fantasy) shortline-sized MNIB undec’d 44T (190usd +shpg)
Doug Cannon said:
Shucks maybe ‘roll-the-dice’, for if the exchange rate is basically the same in April make a run up to the show . . . you would not be the only u.s. train fans to pop up for it !
Now that’s not a bad Idea. As for the son he plays in the West Kootenay league. So he plays Nelson, Castlegar, Trail, Grand Forks, And then there are four teams from here in the Spokane area. Als in tournaments we get to play Kamloops, Kelona and other Eastern BC teams. But We have wanted to make a Flames game. So maybe that’s an option also.
Yep ! Maybe we’ll see ya up here in 2016 
doug c
Not sure why you wouldn’t start with LGB 52.5’ flats. Won’t even have to cut them. Just pop the (plastic) wooden decks off and attach your supports and you have that car.
-Ray
