--- In [email protected], "Pieter" <pieter_roos@...> wrote:
> "I bought a IM RI RTR car there too...So, far I've replaced the trucks, hand
> wheel, steps, couplers/coupler boxes, and added cut levers. I've scrapped off
> the numbers and now need to decal on new numbers 167282, chalk marks,
> reweigh/repack, add a route card and weather. Then and only then will it be
> LOR "LayOut Ready"."
>
> That modeler works in HO, and is fortunate to have actual lists of cars
> dropped and pulled from the town he models, so he researches the car number
> and models specific cars (by series, he certainly can't find photos of a
> specific number car to follow). FWTW, "IM" is Intermountain.
>
One can do pretty much the same thing in S scale using PRS kits instead of
Intermountain. It's a good way to get a lot of hobby time in without spending
too much on equipment, the longer it takes to build one car the less cars one
has to buy.
As for car lists anyone can make those up for their own specific location
either real or imagined. If it's a real town just look for photos of the
railroad around the town and see what was in the trains and yards.If it's an
imaginary town just make up a traffic flow based on the industries and then
look for photos of the kind of cars that served that kind of industry in your
modeled location and era....DaveBranum
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