Here's most of my tanker fleet. Front left to back right: Varney welded Koppers, two Varney Sinclair's (same number), a plastic Athearn AT&SF, a Mantua metal Hercules Powder, an immaculate Laconia Dow Chemical and a Red Ball Monsanto (not built particularly well).


Jeff
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Very nice. I have an AHM CCBX around somewhere.

Jeff
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That's a nice one I've never seen before!

Jeff
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I have a few of these. Nice!

Jeff
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Finally. One I actually have...although yours is nicer.

Jeff
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Frank,?

My apologies for It has been over a month and I just haven't gotten going again on the roundhouse or layout. I know I need to put in the bridge so I can run the long Mainline track. That would be nice to get done first. We'll see if I can get started once more. I do hope so.
frank

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??????????????? ** ?Locomotive service area? **

·?????? ???Focusing on the details seen in the photo you can count the number of stalls by the exhaust stacks see in the photo. You can count 5 stalls then the turntable entrance stall, then the remaining 10 stalls. Of the large decorated roof vents 7 can be seen on even numbered stalls 2, 4, 6, 8, 10,12, and the last being odd number 15. These vents are of a highly detailed style. They have at least 8 flat louver vented sides to them with a wider base and overhanging roof also showing 8 sides with nice molding along the edges.

·?????? * A drawing of the PRR Mount Pleasants yard roundhouse shows a very similar 8 sided roof vent. You can see just how detailed this style of vent is.

·?????? * The locomotive door sections have round roofed doors lined with raised brickwork arches which come together on some sort of keystone and then brickwork continues down a brick column between each door to the ground. The door sections show layered brick work between the door arches and the roof line with teeth. ?Corner square Brick columns topped by a raised brick ledge with teeth that blends in with the roof line teeth. the building has a overhanging roof lined with raised brick teeth all the way around the Roundhouse. The brickwork on the sides shares the same detail as the front and back.
frank

?Here is 3 photos one showing the grouping of shops behind the roundhouse, another the detail of the side of the roundhouse, and the last the detail around the locomotive doors. Sorry about deleting the first of this message. it just wasn't right.
frank

Fred you probably will recognize some of the buildings on this side a of the hill. I like them also.
frank
Clicking on small photo below enlarges it.

Love the Kibri Wild West buildings there. I had them on my first train set 1971.

In both photos you see my masonite base for the roundhouse. The turntable is a Kibri oneand is a scale 85 foot armstrong table. I have made it to HO scale and it is big. The overhang will be filled with a triangular shaped fill piece.
frank

Here is where the Ashley roundhouse is going on my layout.
frank

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I am familiar with the Varney box cars and reefers of the early and mid 50's.

I have some with metal sides and wood floors and roofs. Then I have some with metal sides and plastic floors and roofs.

One is reefer wit plastic floor and roof. It is in a yellow box. It was purchased in 1955. I was at Edwards AFB at the time.

What I am wondering about is Varney metal tank cars of the same period. I have seen some Varney metal tank cars with cast metal frames.

What should I expect when looking at Varney tank cars of the early 50?

I'm trying to relive my childhood!

Bob Macklin
Seattle, Wa

Ashley PA Locomotive roundhouse; Build by the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railway then leased by the "Central Rail Road of New Jersey" who's abbreviated initials were
"C. R. R. of N. J." A scratch build of this building in how it appeared in 1880. My drawing shows a size comparison with "Locomotive Erection Shop" with the interconnecting tracks from turntable to shop.
? The only view of this shop was sent to me to help with the build this first time I tried to make it and started with the more difficult erecting shop. Other views are in the book by Benjamin L. Bernhart on stations, structures, and marine equipment of the C. R. R. of N. J. . I show to scale a 75 foot turntable while the original drawing showed a 70 foot one.?
?I started on this build yesterday. I am trying to make the round house with its turntable on its own masonite platform for strength like those old Faller HO ready made buildings sold in the 1950's before they made plastic kits of many of the same buildings. I have 5 or 6 of these old Faller buildings that are still after 70 years solid. Only the about 90 foot HO scale station is in need of a re-detailing.?
? well this build starts here.?
frank

Note 1: The alignment seen here will most likely not be possible because to my table size. The turntable entrance through a rear locomotive door through stall #6 can't be done.?
I don't know for sure till the building is more complete which stall will be used for entrance to turntable.??



frank

I really don't know. Never seen one before.

I would like know the original manufacture of this HO Payloader. ?It is a future item to be sold by Stewart Products
I will be a good flat car load.
Thanks Ron Christensen

Well I am outnumbered < Plus I forgot which is which, and you two Richard and Jeff are correct. The blacker 5749 is a stock conversion using a Cary boiler, and the other is a conversion using Cary brass detail parts and some sanding away for cast on details.
frank