Hydroflame.....?????

[cjm413]

you could fix the sill with some styrene ..

The prototype is a 50' PS-1 (e.g. MTL, MDC/Athearn)

[davefoxx]

I really shouldn't joke, I'm the guy who loaded up on stuff to make a Star Wars themed module...

Jeff,

Oh, say it isn't so.  I don't want to have to give you one of these:





DFF

[jmarley76]

Hydra-flame... http://malcomplast.com/en/hydra-flame-230



Con-Cor was ahead of their time...

[cjm413]

Scale Enthusiast has them for sale in 2 car sets , total 4 cars .

http://www.nscaleenthusiast.com/NSE_SR_Pic/IMG34/Jpg/Spruce-Falls-TLCX-1075_1070-pair-A.LG.jpg

http://www.nscaleenthusiast.com/NSE_SR_Pages/NSE_SpruceGrog818_2.asp

http://www.nscaleenthusiast.com/NSE_SR_Pages/NSE_Spruce_Grog818.asp

Those cars were sold to CP in the early 1970's...

I'll defer to any photos of the prototype, but I'd expect to see a "Proto-Typo" from the paint shop on a single car before I found that much graffiti on single a car that still had the original TLCX reporting marks, let alone four of them.

[cjm413]

My god the NSE cars are as bad as the Con-Cor. Love the idea that some doofus over at CC took a look at a fuzzy photo and determined "Hydraflame, it has to be". Oh CC, the Tyco of n scale.

The proto... ACF or Pullman?

Con-Cor's model resembles some of the cars built by Illinois Central in their Centralia Shops.

Off the top of my head, I don't know the IC or ICG number series to look for online photos.

[jmarley76]

@davefoxx

[davefoxx]

@davefoxx

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[nkalanaga]

No worse than the "Main Central" 40 ft PS-1 I have from MT.

[Doug G.]

When that car was first released, somebody wrote in to MR Railway Post Office about the error.

Doug

[Puddington]

When that car was first released, somebody wrote in to MR Railway Post Office about the error.

Doug

When was that Doug?

[nickelplate759]

On the one hand, it's easy to look at the ConCor boxcar next to the prototype photo and find all kinds of things wrong with it. 

On the other hand, it's easy to forget (if you're old enough - otherwise you never knew in the first place) that when ConCor was first producing these they were one of the best suppliers of N-Scale around.  There, I said it!    Yes, Kadee (later Micro-Trains) was even better, but 40 years ago ConCor was darn good stuff, and they were pretty much the only supplier to produce cars and engines in a wide variety of road names, some of which were a bit unusual (like the HydroFlame car  , or the NKP box car with the silver "High Speed Service" stripe that never existed  ).

I was grateful for their products back then, warts and all.  I still am.

George

(written and posted on board Amtrak train 500).

[nkalanaga]

Their freight cars stand up very well to the Atlas Trainman and Athearn-MDC cars.  CC's later paint and lettering wasn't the greatest, but the castings themselves are very nice.  Too bad Atlas, or somebody, can't get the tooling.

For years they had the only non-PS1 40 ft boxcars readily available.

[peteski]

Their freight cars stand up very well to the Atlas Trainman and Athearn-MDC cars.  CC's later paint and lettering wasn't the greatest, but the castings themselves are very nice.  Too bad Atlas, or somebody, can't get the tooling.

For years they had the only non-PS1 40 ft boxcars readily available.

Weren't Con-Cor boxcars originally designed and molded by a Japanese company which eventually became Kato?

[cjm413]

Their freight cars stand up very well to the Atlas Trainman and Athearn-MDC cars.  CC's later paint and lettering wasn't the greatest, but the castings themselves are very nice.  Too bad Atlas, or somebody, can't get the tooling.

For years they had the only non-PS1 40 ft boxcars readily available.

The Con-Cor 50' box with the Superior sliding door isn't an exact match for the IC-built cars that I had in mind, but it does make a decent stand-in:

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/ic/ic10898rta.jpg

[Rasputen]

When that car was first released, somebody wrote in to MR Railway Post Office about the error.

Doug

Maybe we need a "Post your facepalm models" topic in the entertainment section??