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I've been slowly modifying a loco and acquiring appropriate rolling stock to eventually recreate (or at least create a display train for) my local shortline, the Barrie-Collingwood Ry.  I recently came across pictures of a hydro transformer being moved on a 4-truck flatcar, and thought it would be an intersting and unique freight load to model.  Question is, who would make this type of flatcar in n-scale?  Walther's has one in HO, but after half an hour of Googling, I'm coming up with nothing for N.  Does anybody know if such an animal exists?  Here is a link to a photo of the prototype.

Thanks in advance!


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Submitted by Cornreaper on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 22:03.

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Not available in N scale.

Not available in N scale.

GHQ has a cast metal kit for a two truck depressed center flatcar that could be the basis of a kitbashing project. You'd just need to construct the end platforms and make brackets for attaching two trucks. It wouldn't be entirely prototypical, but it would at least look like what you want.


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Fri, 08/29/2008 - 08:52

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centre depressed flat car ...

As for centre depressed flatcars. I for one would expand off  Bachmann's six wheel missile flatcar could be a nice starting point for the one that our fellow N-SCALER cornreaper, showed the link for which happens to be a eight wheel centre depressed flatcar ... 

 Tom



Fri, 08/29/2008 - 09:21

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ER models has..............

  There is a depressed center flat made by ER models, that has 6 wheel trucks. That would be a good starting point as well. You could fabricate a span bolster and use two trucks on each end. If I wasn't so busy right now I would kit-bash one myself. It would make a very interesting model for heavy loads. I saw one very much like you want on the UP once. I wanted to take a pic in the yard and was threatened with arrest. Seems it was carrying a tarped load (reactor for the navy). Missed that one............Yell

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Fri, 08/29/2008 - 12:12

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Cornreaper...

These might not be exactly what you are looking for but, they are available.  Looking at your photo, they are close.  I have built one of their kits a flat deck four-trucked car,  and it turned out great.

http://www.nscalekits.co.uk/qttxFD.html

Here's mine:

Flat10


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Fri, 08/29/2008 - 13:43

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Hmmm.....absnut, I think we

Hmmm.....absnut, I think we have a winner!  I'm not a rivet-counter, so it looks close enough to me.  The free shipping doesn't hurt either! 

Jacko-Pat, your experience is proof that we're living in a world that is getting more and more facist by the day.  Getting arrested for taking a picture of something you can't even see is simply absurd....but that's for another forum I'm sure....

Thanks for everyone's input! 

 

 



Fri, 08/29/2008 - 14:47

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Tomix have a depressed flat

Tomix have a depressed flat that might do the job.

http://www.nscaledivision.com/images/Tomix%20Images/TOMIX_Center_Depressed_Flat.jpg


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Fri, 08/29/2008 - 21:34

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Tomix

I had a pair of the Tomix flats a while ago.  They look and run quite nicely but, they're light and quite narrow compared to North American equipment.

 


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Fri, 08/29/2008 - 21:39

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I have a few in a drawer
I have a few in a drawer somewhere... they do look like they should be heavier than they are, but if you're fitting a load, you have room for some ballast to be added.
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Fri, 08/29/2008 - 21:48

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Wow, after some further

Wow, after some further research, one of the kits available from the link that absnut posted are almost bang-on to the KRL prototype dimensions listed on their website!  (See here if you're interested)  Needless to say, a kit has been ordered.

Cheers, absnut Smile!



Sat, 08/30/2008 - 18:10

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Cornreaper

Glad I could help!  It looked "close enough" to me.   Would like to see the finished product.


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Sat, 08/30/2008 - 18:45

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