ANB Poultry Car

[wcfn100]

I went to check out the 'new' train shop here in springs and they had a case up front with some old brass kits.  I remember a couple threads here about the ANB Poultry Car.



If you have any interest, here's the best info I can get you.




Jason

[atsf3751]

Good find, I built that kit and two of the B&O Wagon Top cars long, long ago. I had another half dozen kits I never got around to, they are long gone now. I seem to remember a B&O Wagon Top caboose as well.

[bbussey]

Likewise on the poultry car. Must be at least 35-40 years ago at this point. Had the Wagontop kit as well, but I thought that was a Quality Craft item.

[DKS]

Had one of these too, as well as a watermellon car, IIRC, but too many years ago to be sure.

[pmpexpress]

I seem to remember a B&O Wagon Top caboose as well.

Constructed out of basswood and photo-etched brass, with pewter detail castings (i.e., unlike the American N Brass products which are photo-etched brass with pewter detail castings), the Wagon Top Boxcar was Quality Craft Models stock number 213.

[atsf3751]

Now that you mention it, I remember that the wagon top box car and caboose was Quality Craft. I remember the boxcar was fun to build of a unique car but very hard to keep painted. The etched detail was so sharp that the slightest handling would rub the paint off the raised edges, but that might have been my painting skill 35 years ago.

[pmpexpress]

Etched by Kemtron, the brass stock is much thicker and considerably more rigid in the American N Brass kits.

[Showme]

ANB did the poultry car, a stock car, a flatcar, a watermelon car, and a gondola. Maybe a caboose? Been a long time and memory escapes me. I still have a few built up cars and pieces and parts of all of them. My favorites were the flatcars and gondolas.

About the same time frame, N Gauge International was making brass side and end kits of California Zephyr and Santa Fe chair cars. Those too were a mix match kit of wood, pewter, brass, and used Con Cor plastic corrugated passenger car roofs for the tops.

Bob

[carlso]

ANB or Quality Craft? Detail is a bit clunky but then they did not have today's technology available to make them better. I think the floor is metal as well as sides and roof.

[peteski]

ANB or Quality Craft? Detail is a bit clunky but then they did not have today's technology available to make them better. I think the floor is metal as well as sides and roof.

Nice, but where are the N scale chickens?! 

[pmpexpress]

ANB did the poultry car, a stock car, a flatcar, a watermelon car, and a gondola. Maybe a caboose? Been a long time and memory escapes me. I still have a few built up cars and pieces and parts of all of them. My favorites were the flatcars and gondolas.

About the same time frame, N Gauge International was making brass side and end kits of California Zephyr and Santa Fe chair cars. Those too were a mix match kit of wood, pewter, brass, and used Con Cor plastic corrugated passenger car roofs for the tops.

Bob

Bob,

In addition to the ANB kits that you have already mentioned, there was a work/bunk car kit.

Although ANB could have designed a nice wood sheathed caboose kit, none was ever released.

With the exception of the passenger cars that you have mentioned and the brass bodied wide-vision caboose kit, the N Gauge International (NGI) freight car line was completely fabricated out of basswood and pewter components.

Circa 1970s products, American N Brass, N Gauge International, Railhead, Swift Line, and Wabash Valley all produced craftsman N-Scale rolling-stock kits, while Western Railcraft concentrated on basswood and brass sided interurbans, early 20th century passenger cars, and a Baldwin/Westinghouse steeple cab locomotive.

[pmpexpress]

ANB or Quality Craft? Detail is a bit clunky but then they did not have today's technology available to make them better. I think the floor is metal as well as sides and roof.

If the floor, roof, and ends are brass, and the model was assembled from a kit, rather than being kitbashed or scratchbuilt, it will not have come from Quality Craft/Gloor Craft.

The only N-Scale Quality Craft rolling-stock kits that contained brass components were the stock number 212 Pennsylvania N5C Caboose and the stock number 213 Baltimore & Ohio Wagon Top Boxcar.

As can be seen in Jason's photo of his ANB poultry car kit, the brass ends have really large and deep depressions between the simulated boards.

The roofs of ANB kits are also fabricated out of a thinner gauge of brass than are the ends, sides, and underbody components.

[pmpexpress]

With the exception of the passenger cars that you have mentioned and the brass bodied wide-vision caboose kit, the N Gauge International (NGI) freight car line was completely fabricated out of basswood and pewter components.

Forgot to mention the NGI stock car kit, which along with the firm's typical basswood and pewter components, also has brass doors, ends, sides, ladders, and roofwalk.

[carlso]

Peteski, here are your chickens. That job should be added to "dirty jobs". Actually, that would be pretty easy to model.

[peteski]

Peteski, here are your chickens. That job should be added to "dirty jobs". Actually, that would be pretty easy to model.

Now that's what I'm talking about!    This might be doable as white-ink chicken silhouettes printed by Alps printer on a transparency (on both sides of the car or even with a 3rd one in the center to give it more of a 3-D effect.  Sort of like how Bachmann printed passenger silhouettes in their heavyweight cars' windows.

BTW, did you double-upload that photo? Looks like it is in the gallery and also as an attachment to your post?