Wow, thank you all for the replies!
Michael, thank you for the comprehensive list - there are a few ones I didn't know about, especially about the tank cars. I also found out BTS offered their 52' Evans gon in S, I'm hoping I can find several unbuilt kits too but I have a feeling I'll need to scratchbuild them. That, and I'm trying to pester Jim King into offering the PS-2 gon that he has on his potential future products list. I took a drive over to Ron's store yesterday and picked up a used SW1 and three of his house cars (a pair of different FMCs and one of the Evans RBLs). Today I swapped out the wheelsets to scale, took out the bolster shims and installed Kadees on the cars - I'm hugely impressed with what I'm seeing. The SW1 is already half stripped (I love 91% IPA!); I'm searching for a few detail parts that will allow me to model it current day like you would see on a switching provider like one of the Burlington Junction properties. It's going to be a simple conversion - pull the footboards and replate the pilots, change the cut levers, add a Scotch Watchman - things like that. Adding a Tsunami will be the hardest change. Bob hit it on the head - I don't plan on having more than one or two SWs in rotation and possibly a deturboed GP35 for this layout. It'll be a fairly small (16' on stage) Lance Mindheim-style trackplan. My current thinking is five multi-spot industries: a corrugated box maker (paperboard in, scrap out), a scrapyard (gons out), a building supply distributor (bulkhead flats, centerbeams and ratty old boxcars of cinderblocks and bricks in), something getting corn syrup tanks and a team track/transload for everything else. I'm looking at the feasibility of scratchbuilding Canadian style bulkhead flats (like the Walthers car in HO) and centerbeam flats. I'm glad to hear that corn syrup tanks were made at some point, hopefully I can find several - scratchbuilding tanks is not something I look forward to doing. These plus the FMCs XMs and Evans RBLs made by S Scale America and various kit, scratchbuilt and kitbashed gons should be enough to make a viable roster. Now, if someone would just do a modern LO suitable for plastic pellets... the ex-PRS Centerflow is a little old for what I have in mind but could possibly be kitbashed. If anyone has leads on the BTS gons or the Downs corn syrup tanks, I'm all ears. Again, thanks to all for the input! Ken Ford Aurora, IL --- In [email protected], Michael Ostertag <wsmwrr@...> wrote: > > Ken, > > I am a recent convert to S Scale myself. I have only been in S for the > past 2 years, coming over from HO scale. I am modeling the Milwaukee > Road in the 1978 to 1981 era. I too have found it difficult to find era > appropriate equipment. However, after just this short time, I feel I am > knowledgeable enough to share with you what I know. > > Snip... > > I hope this helps > Michael Ostertag > Green Bay, WI > wsmwrr@... > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
