As I move to clear my wood lathe table of all the kits and projects piled on it, I located these and thought they might be of interest. Seems that there was once another MTH in the model train business,
But, in the queue right before them is a traction flat car to get built - also an MTH kit although getting a few modifications....
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Location: Ma-Phoor, the rose red city half as old as time itself | Registered:: June 06, 2006
Originally posted by Lee Carlson: You must have a half century of work waiting on your workbench. No worry about boredom from nothing to do. Nice work, as usual.
Lee
Actually, my bench has never been more empty, And, continuing to get it, my lathe bench, and the rest of my shop emptied out of train projects is a major goal for this summer. The truly scary place is the closet in my office - stacked full of kits!
Here's a door & 1/2 traction freight trailer that I picked up off ebay and am repairing and upgrading. Not a kit but some one else's scratchbuilding project....
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Location: Ma-Phoor, the rose red city half as old as time itself | Registered:: June 06, 2006
Got the side boards and curved end boards into place as well as added the scribed siding for the top decking...
Have to trim it to shape now, add the stake pockets & stirrup steps, install the radial couplers that I just made, drill & tap the bolsters for 4/40, and put the trucks on, add the brakewheel............and then it's ready for paint.
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Location: Ma-Phoor, the rose red city half as old as time itself | Registered:: June 06, 2006
Well, got the decking trimmed and have added seom home made radial couplers using Kay-Dee's mounted to some brass stock with the assembly mounted using some wood screws.
I guess that I could use the nice PSC couplers but they are not operational and cost about $10 a pair more than these []
Added stake pockets from Grandt ine and some Kemtron stirrup steps, I decided that a flat car trailer was just a litle boring since I already had 1, so this gets turned into a gondola!
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Location: Ma-Phoor, the rose red city half as old as time itself | Registered:: June 06, 2006
Wish I could take credit for that KD radial coupler, Lee, but I can't! There was a set on the freight trailer that I bought to restore and the idea was too good not to copy and put to use!
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Location: Ma-Phoor, the rose red city half as old as time itself | Registered:: June 06, 2006
Thanks! After I get that load chained down, it's back to the stock trailer kits - one to build as per the instructions; one to bash into a stock motor car,
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Who's the other MTH ?
Midwestern Train Hobby
Judging from the info in the instruction pamplets, this MTH has been around a long time......
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Location: Ma-Phoor, the rose red city half as old as time itself | Registered:: June 06, 2006
Jim Osborn of Columbus Ohio. Hell of a nice guy. In addition to the flat trailer and stock trailer kits also built trolley poles and custom built trolleys. As far as a motor stock cars. Vane Jones had an article and plans for one of the cars on the Terre Haute ,Indianapolis and Eastern that later were Indiana Railroad .Only 2 or 3 were built. This was in Traction and Models Magazine. Don't know what issue.
Bill Culliton Frontier Electric Railway
Location: Bedford New Hampshire USA | Registered:: May 23, 2001
As far as a motor stock cars. Vane Jones had an article and plans for one of the cars on the Terre Haute ,Indianapolis and Eastern that later were Indiana Railroad .Only 2 or 3 were built. This was in Traction and Models Magazine. Don't know what issue.
Yes, but I know I have the plans in my shop - just about a complete set of T&M on the shelf - great resource for any traction modeler!!!
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Location: Ma-Phoor, the rose red city half as old as time itself | Registered:: June 06, 2006
Basically completed the stock trailer now - just needs paint & finishing. Goes into the queue with all the other cars for when I switch my shop over to be the paint shop....
Now, off to the 2nd ofthese kits to bash that into a stock trailer - got the parts ordered from Q-car already - well, other than the drive,
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Location: Ma-Phoor, the rose red city half as old as time itself | Registered:: June 06, 2006
Really a pretty basic kit for teh flat car, but it really can be dressed up with some detail parts - replacing the clunky stake pockets it came with and using Grandt Line ones, adding the Q-car anti-climber on the ends, some Kemtron stirrup steps, and few other odds & ends helps a lot!
In the back of my mind in a dusty corner I've been contemplating casting an entire flat car as a single unit; just add decking, details, and paint.....
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Location: Ma-Phoor, the rose red city half as old as time itself | Registered:: June 06, 2006
if you did a flatcar casting, it could be used for a flat, a gon, a motorized flat or pillar crane. One would have to have 5 of them to be able to make every type of car possible.
I've even seen photos of motor flats with loads of hay bales, cases of whiskey, barrels of beer, as well as railroad supplies.
Lee
Location: Madison, CT | Registered:: December 20, 2008
Originally posted by Lee Carlson: if you did a flatcar casting, it could be used for a flat, a gon, a motorized flat or pillar crane. One would have to have 5 of them to be able to make every type of car possible.
I've even seen photos of motor flats with loads of hay bales, cases of whiskey, barrels of beer, as well as railroad supplies.
Lee
You have just hit upon the reasoning that was behind the development of my regular flat car kit - a flat car is what's under just about every other car - the underling basis and platform for an endless array of cars!
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Location: Ma-Phoor, the rose red city half as old as time itself | Registered:: June 06, 2006
Originally posted by Vulcan: I like it, Martin. Where'd you get the shovels?
Not entirely sure -- I want to say Berkshire Valley or Wiseman Models, but I have this lingering thought that they might be from a pack of some older CHB tools that I scored off the bay a long time ago.
Wiseman does sell some scoop shovels...
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Location: Ma-Phoor, the rose red city half as old as time itself | Registered:: June 06, 2006
Yes, probably CHB; good looking tool castings are best grabbed when seen and stuff like that falls under the detail parts heading of "you can never have too many....",
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Location: Ma-Phoor, the rose red city half as old as time itself | Registered:: June 06, 2006
Here's the completed car that the MTH stock trailer kit builds. Pretty simple to build, actually; just took me some time to get it painted and to install a "tarpaper" roof, and to get some dry transfers that would fit on the small letter boards.
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Location: Ma-Phoor, the rose red city half as old as time itself | Registered:: June 06, 2006
All my traction is generally lettered using dry transfers from Clover House for the CG&W --> Chambersburg, Greencastle & Waynesboro, aka the Come, Go & Wait,
Is it real? Do you see it, too? We all see it. That don't make it real.
Location: Ma-Phoor, the rose red city half as old as time itself | Registered:: June 06, 2006
And, continuing to get it, my lathe bench, and the rest of my shop emptied out of train projects is a major goal for this summer. The truly scary place is the closet in my office - stacked full of kits! 
