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During the darkest days of the Penn-Central in the 1968-1972 era, solid Flexivan trains were the most impressive trains on the Selkirk-Chicago NYC mainline through Northern Indiana.
I think the problem is that most new Walthers passenger trains contain one or two new cars, combined with others from previous runs carrying new details, names, or lettering.
I believe if you were to comb through the archives of the model railroad forums here, it would quickly become apparent that Athearn is the most talked about model manufacture here by a great margin. Every new model gets a thorough going over here by a variety of members. The shortcomings are pointe
Re: Walthers Proto Max Couplers. Author: grahamline. It's tempting to keep the newer Walthers metal couplers but we have found that many of them are too stiff for reliable car-to-car coupling in a switching situation. Hitting a car two or three times to couple might occasionally be prototypic but it's frustrating.
walthers HO orginal Auto-train. Author: Frisco1971. have wondering for some time why Walthers don't do. an HO orginal Auto-Train ????? Now would be a great time to intoduce a fallen flags business.
Walthers have started shipping those green PROX 75xxx tank cars in HO, so it seems like a good time to ask where folks have observed them on the prototype. I\'ve seen them: - at Shell Chemical\'s plant at Scotford, Alberta (huge strings of them) - On CP trains between Alberta an
Model Railroading > Walthers Articulated NSC Well Car. Several years ago Walthers offered the single-well version of this well car. They also connected 3 single-wells with drawbars and offered a 3-unit version. However, when standing trackside, it is clear the most numerous version of this design on the rails is the 3-unit Articulated Well Car.
Re: Body removal on Walthers SD70ACe. Author: MrMRL. As with too many of the Walthers ACe shell tooling and assembly features, the Walthers shell removes from its chassis the same way as an Athearn Genesis SD70ACe. Remove the front and rear couplers (box and all), then remove two additional small phillips screws on the underside of the model ...
The issue with the retooled plated Walthers Superliners is the trucks were also redome from injection molded plastic to metal like the other passenger cars in the Walthers product line.
The Walthers car is too short at 72' exterior, while the BNSF car is 82' exterior. > The Walthers car is the same size as the ARMN models that Exactrail and BLMA did in years past.