From: Alan Lambert Fort Worth, Texas Rich, Glad you saw one at S-Fest. At our local train shows, the only thing new that I get first hand views are from American Models, thanks to one of my club members that is a dealer for them. Like the GP-9;18 in MKT livery along with the condola. even got the MKT heavywight passenger cars before they were on the website. Anybody can do what you did, but the thought of it being AF turns most of them off. waiting on " The Worlds Greatest Hobby Show" next month in Fort Worth. May have more "S" to look at. My club will have part of our layout setup and I will be running my trains. Alan Lambert From: richgajnak <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 9:26 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} RE: PIkesville tank cars
--- In mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com, Alan Lambert <alanlambert64@...> wrote:>> From: Alan Lambert>          Fort Worth, Texas>  > Tom,>  > You have good eyes. It is AF style with the dreaded Knuckle coupler.You scale guys need to read Jeff Maddens article in the same Dispatch . I guess you could talk to Bill Lane or John and come up with a way to get the subframe to the likings of a scale car. But for the most part it is a new car for the NASG highrail guys. Since Iron Rail Models is down, I guess scale guys will have to scratch build all new tank cars, or settle for AM cars as ready to run and scale conversion just a matter of choice. If you look at one you will see that it is ready for the scale coupler. Now back to looking at my Dispatch magazine.>             Alan LambertÂ>From what I saw at S Fest, the Pikesville tank and flat cars are some kind of American Flyer clones. They're too clean to be old repainted stock.However, even I somehow managed to convert a Flyer tank car to scale. Couple of cuts with a razor saw corrects the frame issues, even built my own bolsters to get the trucks to the correct location. Converting the Pikesville car should be no different if one so desires.After all, we're supposed to be modelers here, arent we? That's what everbody keeps telling me...If not, there's always the S Scale America tank car. I think Ron's still got quite a good selection in stock.Rich G(ajnak)
