that keeps sprouting up along the right-of-way.
This weed sprayer car is one of two that I built about 30 years ago: the other one went to a friend. Kadee trucks, Cal Scale brake gear, and the rest is styrene and basswood bits. The operator sits up front, ahead of the moveable sprayer arms. Water in the wooden tanks is mixed with chemicals in the house section, then pumped to the sprayer heads.
The water car is based on one that I saw on the CNR about 1960. It's Tyco, with the coal bunker opened up and detailed with removeable coal boards and interior bracing. Also a coupler on the former front end.
The work service gondola is a former Athearn 40' flatcar, with new sides of styrene. It's used here mainly as a spacer car, for the benefit of the loco crew.
GVC 2-8-0 #25 is from the erecting halls of Bachmann, with a little cosmetic modification by the Grand Valley shops. With lots of added weight, she and her sisters can really move the tonnage. A little more work was done on the tender, including a clear-vision open coal bunker and a shortened frame and cistern, along with new handrails and deck details.
The caboose is Athearn, pretty much stock except for the trucks and Cal Scale markers.
Wayne
This weed sprayer car is one of two that I built about 30 years ago: the other one went to a friend. Kadee trucks, Cal Scale brake gear, and the rest is styrene and basswood bits. The operator sits up front, ahead of the moveable sprayer arms. Water in the wooden tanks is mixed with chemicals in the house section, then pumped to the sprayer heads.
The water car is based on one that I saw on the CNR about 1960. It's Tyco, with the coal bunker opened up and detailed with removeable coal boards and interior bracing. Also a coupler on the former front end.
The work service gondola is a former Athearn 40' flatcar, with new sides of styrene. It's used here mainly as a spacer car, for the benefit of the loco crew.
GVC 2-8-0 #25 is from the erecting halls of Bachmann, with a little cosmetic modification by the Grand Valley shops. With lots of added weight, she and her sisters can really move the tonnage. A little more work was done on the tender, including a clear-vision open coal bunker and a shortened frame and cistern, along with new handrails and deck details.
The caboose is Athearn, pretty much stock except for the trucks and Cal Scale markers.
Wayne
