Wed 10-11 What's You Got?

TomPM

Another Fried Egg Fan
Good morning folks

The only modeling that got done last night was sealing some vehicles I weathered the night before.

What are the most common cars on your layout?

On my layout the most common cars are boxcars followed closely by open hoppers for coal. Next would be covered hoppers for cement and grain.
 

MilesWestern

Active Member
It's Reefer madness over here on The Mission Valley and Pacific! :rolleyes: :D

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fsm1000

Member
At the moment nothing, I haven't made any yet is why. After I get more scenery done I will get to it though.
I plan on 2 or 3 ore cars. One baggage passenger combo, one flat car, one or two boxcars, one fancy schmancy parlour car and maybe some others. Not much really. :)
 

ezdays

Out AZ way
Boy it's close. Just about evenly split between box cars and hoppers. If I include cattle cars, then the box cars come out ahead, if I include the oar cars, then hoppers pull even again.
 

shaygetz

Active Member
Of all things, passenger cars...with 35+, that accounts for at least 30% of my rolling stock. My favorite, flatcars, don't even rate a close second with seven. How'd that happen?:eek:ops:
 

LoudMusic

Member
Brown box cars ;)

But I'm like shaygetz, I like flatbeds. They allow for the most variation in loads and uniqueness. I like smaller ones, 40 and 50 footers. And just classic wooden decks. Though I do have a four truck low center heavy-hauler flat car. We used to put a combine machine on it.
 

60103

Pooh Bah
If you count passenger cars as a single category, that's what I have.
In freight cars, it's the 4-wheel open mineral wagon (gondola) followed by the container car (4 wheel, one 20' container).
 

doctorwayne

Active Member
Boy, this one surprised me when I did a count! Of my models of cars of real railroads, boxcars were by far the most numerous, at 97. Reefers and gondolas each clocked in at 15, while hoppers numbered 10, as did combined passenger and express cars. Counting cars of my own free-lance roadnames, I also included cars sold to others, as I know many of them are still existing. (The total of each type sold is shown in brackets). Totals were as follows: boxcars- 39 (24), hoppers- 32 (7), reefers- 23 (4), gondolas- 16 (5), and covered hoppers- 16 (13). The most surprising was passenger and express cars, at 38 (42). Maybe it's time to thin things out again.:rolleyes:

Wayne
 
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