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Standard Gauge Rolling Stock:
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Side Door Caboose
About the same time that he was working
on his 40' boxcar, Jim also began work on a side door (or "drovers") caboose. The
model is constructed just like the prototype with a framed inner
structure covered with scribed sheathing on the outside and
board-by-board construction on the inside. The model features a full interior.
Castings are from Ozarks Miniatures. |
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36' Trussrod Flat
Cars The
36' wooden flat car was the ubiquitous workhorse of the wood car era
and lasted well into the era of steel on many logging lines.
Typically, most wooden flats had four trussrods, though higher
capacity ones would often have 6 or even 8. Jim's models are shown
with a variety of loads. This basic flat also provides the
foundation for his 36' gondolas. Note: Nail-by-nail construction! |
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36' Gondolas
What's a cheap and dirty way to build a
fleet of gondolas? Start with a generic wooden flat car and then add
sides! The D&RGW did it on the NG; Jim in SG. |
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36' Tank Car
The earliest tank cars were essentially
flat cars with wooden barrels for holding oil mounted atop their
decks. Later, iron and then steel tanks mounted longitudinally
replaced the wooden barrels, but the idea of a tank car as
essentially a flat car frame with a tank mounted atop did not
disappear, at least not until well into the steel car era. These
early pre-WWI cars rode on archbar or even Fox trucks, though later
they would have been updated to cast steel trucks. Here's Jim's
prototype and pictures of a later, longer car located in Sacramento:
Jim's model is of an early steel car
with a heavy steel frame supporting the tank, the former of which is
built up from brass channels & flat stock; the latter from a
combination of acrylic pipe, styrene, and brass fittings. |
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72' Business Car
Jim's biggest project to date is a
1:20.3 standard gauge model of a turn-of-the-last century 72' wooden
business car--essentially an observation car for the railroad brass.
As of April 2007 he has mainly been at work on the six wheel Pullman
Palace trucks (see above). But he has also completed patterns and
rubber molds for the clerestory ends of the car's roof. This
promises to be another 1st by Jim in the world of F scale standard
gauge modeling (Jim already holds the record for 1st tank car, 1st
gondola and 1st caboose). |
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Snow Plow
Jim's latest project, undertaken
concurrently with his passenger car, is a piece of
maintenance-of-way equipment: a snow plow. |
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