healey36 wrote:U. S. Capitol "subway", 1916
Almost looks to have originated as an automobile or truck frame of some sort.
Funky! I'd imagine that there's good info on that somewhere,
healey36 wrote:U. S. Capitol "subway", 1916
Almost looks to have originated as an automobile or truck frame of some sort.
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:healey36 wrote:That looks to have been built for a specific purpose, of which I have no idea other than MOW of some sort. The Indiana Railroad seems to have been quite innovative in this regard.
Lots of lines built up motor flats for all sorts of uses -- got to get into building one or two soon.
healey36 wrote:Rufus T. Firefly wrote:healey36 wrote:That looks to have been built for a specific purpose, of which I have no idea other than MOW of some sort. The Indiana Railroad seems to have been quite innovative in this regard.
Lots of lines built up motor flats for all sorts of uses -- got to get into building one or two soon.
I don't recall seeing one with such a narrow cab before. Seems set up to carry lengths of something. Possibly the cab is set to one side of the flat, maybe?
healey36 wrote:It appears that someone's had that out off-roading (off-tracking, perhaps).
healey36 wrote:The horizontal grabs going up the side to reach the roof are interesting.
Details like that are what makes this stuff, to my mind. No two cars are the same, at least with the MOW equipment. If I had it to do all over, I think I would pursue modeling traction.
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:healey36 wrote:The horizontal grabs going up the side to reach the roof are interesting.
That's why I suspect some sort of MOW line car use given the overall condition.Details like that are what makes this stuff, to my mind. No two cars are the same, at least with the MOW equipment. If I had it to do all over, I think I would pursue modeling traction.
Come on in - the modeling diversity in the traction area is vast and good fun!
Joseph Frank1 wrote:Rufus T. Firefly wrote:healey36 wrote:The horizontal grabs going up the side to reach the roof are interesting.
That's why I suspect some sort of MOW line car use given the overall condition.Details like that are what makes this stuff, to my mind. No two cars are the same, at least with the MOW equipment. If I had it to do all over, I think I would pursue modeling traction.
Come on in - the modeling diversity in the traction area is vast and good fun!
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Hi ! Re: your statement >> " Come on in - the modeling diversity in the traction area is vast and good fun! " -- <<
Well, heh, its quite obvious the ONLY modeling done and seen on these many pages since November last year (2020) - and also a few weeks ago, are a few of my own model photos and my transit-traction modeling and rolling stock. Seems no one posts ANY traction-transit modeling projects here any more on this thread. (Joe F)
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Joseph Frank1 wrote:Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
That's why I suspect some sort of MOW line car use given the overall condition.
Come on in - the modeling diversity in the traction area is vast and good fun!
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Hi ! Re: your statement >> " Come on in - the modeling diversity in the traction area is vast and good fun! " -- <<
Well, heh, its quite obvious the ONLY modeling done and seen on these many pages since November last year (2020) - and also a few weeks ago, are a few of my own model photos and my transit-traction modeling and rolling stock. Seems no one posts ANY traction-transit modeling projects here any more on this thread. (Joe F)
I stopped posting my modeling efforts here. No one was looking other than to make disparaging comments about models they could not build at all. I still post some of my 2 rail car projects over on the 3 rail section of MTJ where building models is actually appreciated and those were far more recent than last year. However, there is little appreciation of model building anywhere else on MTJ.
I gave up similarly on OGR -- there's minimal interest in model building there, just lots of "look at my new shiny thing" discussions.
But, when I posted that statement I was referring to joining in a general sense and not referring to this forum at all.
Joseph Frank1 wrote:Hello Again !
Thanks for the honest commentary. But I DO remember and enjoyed seeing your hand built / crafted models you posted --- that was back when I and a number of others also frequently posted and shared our hand-on modeling work. But you notice that I have posted very little here also for the past few years -- and more so because I cannot any longer load photos of my models stored on my computer on the system here at MTJ. Unless I get URL addresses for them for a photo host site A big P I T A.
But I agree with what you wrote about no one (or few) looking and some whiner-comments from so viewers. Sad the way things have changed in the hobby. - especially about looking "at the shiny new thing I just bought" type photos.
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