(erielack) Re: EL List Daily V3 #1906

["Bill K." <pontiac_@_dreamscape.com>]

The reason the Tyco car works so well for this conversion is the deck is a
seperate part, because the same flatcar shell was used for their piggyback,
auto-rack and pumlpwood cars.  So you could use any of those cars for one of
the conversions.

If you dig a little at shows, the first issues of these cars had screw-on
trucks, from 1969-1970 or so, which would save some work converting them to
use other trucks.  They usually came in a red box - people are collecting
them now, so if you come up with a nice one (boxed) I'd swap two for one for
newer cars.   I have probably half a dozen anyhow in my train show stuff.
Send me a note off list if anyone wants any.



Bill K.


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> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:05:13 -0500
> From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>
> Subject: RE: (erielack) Ups trailers On EL
>
> Mike Dickinson asked:
>
> > Group, What type of trailers did EL haul for UPS? I am wondering about
> > the shorter pup type? I do have several of the old Athearn
> > and other Mfg
> > that I could use for a NY100(?) train. The new 85' TOFC will not look
> > good on my small/tight curves. I thought that I could cut those 20'
> > trailers up into the pups or other short trailers.
>
> The Athearn trailers are 40' ones - you mean you want to cut them into 20'
pups, correct?
>
> The UPS pups that Rail Power Products made several years back (and Athearn
now owns, and I believe has also released) were good models of that
particular trailer, but I think these didn't come into use until the 1980s.
All UPS used in EL years were those 40' trailers, as well as leased 40'
trailers from others.
>
> But remember, there's nothing stopping you from taking a pair of pups,
painting them up in the same fashion as the Athearn 40' UPS trailers.
Putting a pair of these on a 53' flat would essentially look like a shrunken
85' flat with 2 40' trailers, and for a layout with tight curves, this can
be an acceptable alternative. It is YOUR model, and you certainly have the
right to use modelers' license here! :)
>
>
>
> > Also
> > didn't i see an
> > article somewhere about redoing a flatcar to take a trailer?
>
> I don't remember the issue, but Larry DeYoung did an excellent article on
converting a Tyco (yes!) flatcar into an EL 7010-series 53' single-trailer
piggyback flat. These would be ideal for a layout with tight turns.
>
> - Paul
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