Side Shot Saturday - New Thread

FT-17 tank for a prewar Flyer flatcar (basically just the frame from a 3011 sand car):




I have a second kit for the FT-17...might give that a simple monochrome paint job and an overspray of clear gloss, something that would tie in a bit better with the gloss finish on the tinplate.

Thanks, af; I have a rattle can of Tamiya clear gloss here - I could just try that. I should find some numbers and unit markings for it first (I should have done that before applying the wash actually).

Nice field gun,, btw. I have a few by Britain’s, but no Marklin or Elastolin. Much of my ill-spent youth had me shooting match sticks at ranks of toy soldiers...those were the days.

healey36 that is a beautiful set and I certainly don’t have - or have ever actually seen - any train set c.100 years old.

I had it in mind this week to revert to some fairly conventional side shots and somehow the above post reminded me of my now archived one time obsession with FEF-3s and in particular UP 844[4]. Part of this was about how their Mars Lights actually worked in real railroading (sad, isn’t it?) and all of these 3rail models had different and non-prototypical versions of that. 

These are Lionel Legacy versions some 8 years apart:



The Greyhound early Legacy version is the champion smoker of all time and I used to run it on rollers sometimes just to see the smoke rings:



I once did a detailed comparison of the Legacy and 3rd Rail versions of 844[4] and really could not decide between them in terms of appearance, operating features and general play value:



These last two photos are not mine and I don’t know who posted them many years ago but they are a couple of my favorite illustrations of the black 844[4] version in O scale:

  Here's a style of freight car which, as far as I've been able to determine, was never part of the American freight car scene but which was, apparently, commonplace in Europe in the pre-war period. I say apparently because, while I've been able to find a number of pictures of detailed models of this car I haven't been able to find any pictures of the prototype.  My guess is I'm not using the correct search word/phrase on Google.

  In any event, the gas cylinder car was a part of the freight car offerings of just about all, if not all, of the toy train manufacturers in Europe - Bing, Hornby, JEP, KBN, Marklin, etc..

  The car is referred to as a Gaswagen or a Gas Kesselwagen or just a Gas car. The most elaborate version I've been able to photograph is this KBN car which dates from the early 1930's. The odd thing about the KBN car are the domes.  None of the detailed models have this feature and I have to wonder if this isn't just toy train artistic license.




Bing, Hornby, JEP and others offered smaller versions of  this car

Bing ca. 1909



Hornby 1930's



The real cars all had these gas cylinders resting in cradles and strapped to the flat car.  The valves on the ends of the tanks on the detailed models would indicate the gas could have been any of the gasses, propane, natural gas, etc. one could transport in pressurized cylinders.

Looking at it this way it almost seems like it would be 1:1048 scale vice 1:48 scale.  Great picture.

Most interesting af3020, thanks. I have seen these cars before but never had any real interest in them until now.Seems like a good scratch-building/upgrading project (and somewhere in a forum or magazine I have seen that done) but I am not up for anything more of that kind at present.

I found this Field Guide to Tank Cars some time ago, and thought it would be appropriate to share in light of AF3020 and healey36 posts. Alfred