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Southern Pacific #338288
Many riding railroads include gondola cars. Riding-scale gondolas can haul most anything, including people, tools, buckets, rail, and anything else you can think of. I guess that's why real railroads have so many. The original LT&P plan called for a gondola, and I patterned it after an old Atlas O scale car acquired in the 1970s.
Southern Pacific #338288
open gondola / Hawkins Jct, La / spring 2011
spring 2011
Southern Pacific #461282
The scratch built Southern Pacific hopper is built up from an aluminum frame with a birch plywood body. It features PSC details, Mountain Car Co. (MCC) Bettendorf trucks and couplers, and Cannonball bolsters and coupler pockets. The hopper can serve as a riding car for the locomotive engineer. Lettering is by Miracle Graphics.
Southern Pacific #461282
2-bay open hopper / Hawkins Jct, La / spring 2010
aluminum frame on trucks
birch plywood body
Louisiana, Texas & Pacific riding car
The LT&P's riding car is very simple, made from 3/4" plywood, 2 x 4s, and a 2 x 8 seat for passenger transport. The car features MCC roller bearing trucks and couplers, along with Cannonball bolsters and coupler pockets. It is painted in a style reminiscent of the Southern Pacific's famous Daylight scheme.
Louisiana, Texas & Pacific
riding car / Hawkins Jct, La / spring 2010
Southern Railway #X362
Southern Railway bay-window caboose #X362 has a 3/4" plywood floor, 1/4" birch plywood sides and roof, and PSC details. Caboose trucks are from Tom Bee, with Cannonball bolsters and coupler pockets and MCC couplers. Lettering is by Miracle Graphics.
Southern Railway #X362
bay window caboose / Hawkins Jct, La / fall 2011
painted body on trucks before lettering / spring 2010
Hawkins Jct, La / spring 2010
Southern Railways #X362
bay window caboose / New Orleans, La / circa 1990 / Payne