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A1G + copycats 40' E.War / Composite Gons

dave w
 

hi gang,
Though good offices of a guy at Railwiire I got? a large handful of these, mixture as cited of A1G, Trix/ Walthers and Bachmann in various conditions of completion.

Most to be stripped back to plain mineral red or black and used as coal cars on the ol' D&RG/W? hypothetical railroad I'm fashioning. Mineral red being the color of some gon series before the 40's, so thats a justification I'll run with.
cheers dave w
 

Hi Dave,?
? ?Great selections of gons you got going there !
If memory serves me right the first generation run of Atlas composite gons where Cotton Belt, Norfolk Southern, Reading and Monon. You got three of the four. The Missouri Pacific is more like from a later run but still a great Atlas car. Sorry to hear some of the cars may loose their original identity but you got to do what you got to do to build your railroad.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Rick


On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:04 PM, dave w via Groups.Io
<nzntrains@...> wrote:
hi gang,
Though good offices of a guy at Railwiire I got? a large handful of these, mixture as cited of A1G, Trix/ Walthers and Bachmann in various conditions of completion.

Most to be stripped back to plain mineral red or black and used as coal cars on the ol' D&RG/W? hypothetical railroad I'm fashioning. Mineral red being the color of some gon series before the 40's, so thats a justification I'll run with.
cheers dave w


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Rick, you're spot on with the A1G Roadnames: Norfolk Southern (the first one), Cotton Belt/SSW, Monon and Reading.? Photos of each are on the A1G site (shameless plug).

The Walthers releases on the left of the original photo were also made by Roco and should be the same as the A1G cars, excepting perhaps a bit of tooling cleanup and in my opinion a little better paint job.

That the Bachmann releases could also be from Roco is something I haven't considered up until now.? Somewhere I think I still have one of the CB&Q cars and can do a comparison... if I can locate it.

Cheers,
George
 

Bachmann cars were typically copies made in Hong Kong or China but I guess you never know. Most of them were of equal quality to RoCo in the early days.

The Atlas Norfolk Southern composite gondola was the first N scale item (after Treble-O-Lectric) I ever got, bought in the summer of 1967. It was an absolute thrill to see those Atlas cars in the Nichol's Hobby Shop display case. I still have that car, unchanged after all these years.

Doug

In a message dated 6/14/2018 9:54:20 AM Central Standard Time, groups@... writes:

Rick, you're spot on with the A1G Roadnames: Norfolk Southern (the first one), Cotton Belt/SSW, Monon and Reading.? Photos of each are on the A1G site (shameless plug).

The Walthers releases on the left of the original photo were also made by Roco and should be the same as the A1G cars, excepting perhaps a bit of tooling cleanup and in my opinion a little better paint job.

That the Bachmann releases could also be from Roco is something I haven't considered up until now.? Somewhere I think I still have one of the CB&Q cars and can do a comparison... if I can locate it.

Cheers,
George

dave w
 

Thanks guys
Strangely there were no Reading in the group, unlike previous purchases I'd accumulated.
Some have MTL body mounts already done, but not sure I'll continue to do that or el-cheapo with short-stem Unimates that improve coupling distance.

The Bachmann seem crisper over all apart from name-label, and improved paint, virtually indistinguishable- which is ok either way for me. I'm fond of the quirkiness found amongst the gon field since there were so many prototypes anyway.

A foob in this field is hardly an issue- given I've also heavily invested in the 'real models' of D&RGW gon prototypes produced by Tichy/ Intermntn and Trainworx.
My palette is complete, all I need is the space (and proto-scenery) to showcase them.
davew

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