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Louisiana, Texas & Pacific Railroad Riding Rolling Stock |
Southern Pacific #338288
Many riding railroads include gondola cars. Riding-scale gondolas can haul most anything, including people, tools, buckets, rail, and anything else you can think of. I guess that's why real railroads have so many. The original LT&P plan called for a gondola, and I patterned it after an old Atlas O scale car acquired in the 1970s.
Southern Pacific #338288
open gondola / Marrero, La / spring 2011
spring 2011
Feb 2012 / RWH
Feb 2012 / RWH
Feb 2012 / RWH
Nov 2018 / RWH
Southern Pacific #461282
The scratch built Southern Pacific hopper is built up from an aluminum frame with a birch plywood body. It features PSC details, Mountain Car Co. (MCC) Bettendorf trucks and couplers, and Cannonball bolsters and coupler pockets. The hopper can serve as a riding car for the locomotive engineer. Lettering is by Miracle Graphics.
Southern Pacific #461282
2-bay open hopper / Marrero, La / spring 2010
aluminum frame on trucks
birch plywood body
Feb 2012 / RWH
Feb 2012 / RWH
Feb 2012 / RWH
Feb 2012 / RWH
Feb 2012 / RWH
Feb 2012 / RWH
Feb 2012 / RWH
Southern Railway #523621
Southern Railway #523621
Marrero, La / Dec 2017 / RWH
Boxcar Construction
Oct 2017
The box car is coming along. I have finished the ribs, a job that turned out to be much more involved than I thought it would be. I also made the end ladders, another job that was surprisingly complex. The doors are the last item before paint. The lower runners for the doors are giving me fits in the design, but I hope to get them done tomorrow. If all works out, I can have the box car painted and the grade eased by Black Friday Train Day.
Oct 2017
Oct 2017
Marrero, La / Dec 2017 / RWH
Marrero, La / Dec 2017 / RWH
Marrero, La / Dec 2017 / RWH
Nov 2018 / RWH
Nov 2018 / RWH
Nov 2018 / RWH
Nov 2018 / RWH
Marrero, La / Dec 2017 / RWH
Louisiana, Texas & Pacific riding car
The LT&P's riding car is very simple, made from 3/4" plywood, 2 x 4s, and a 2 x 8 seat for passenger transport. The car features MCC roller bearing trucks and couplers, along with Cannonball bolsters and coupler pockets. It is painted in a style reminiscent of the Southern Pacific's famous Daylight scheme.
Louisiana, Texas & Pacific
riding car / Marrero, La / Feb 2012 / RWH
Jack Hawkins on riding car / Feb 2012 / ETH
Dec 2016 / RWH
Nov 2018 / RWH
Nov 2018 / RWH
Southern Railway #X362
Southern Railway bay-window caboose #X362 has a 3/4" plywood floor, 1/4" birch plywood sides and roof, and PSC details. Caboose trucks are from Tom Bee, with Cannonball bolsters and coupler pockets and MCC couplers. Lettering is by Miracle Graphics.
Southern Railway #X362
bay window caboose / Marrero, La / Feb 2012 / RWH
Feb 2012 / RWH
painted body on trucks before lettering / spring 2010
Feb 2012 / RWH
Feb 2012 / RWH
Feb 2012 / RWH
Feb 2012 / RWH
fall 2011
Nov 2018 / RWH
Southern Railways #X362
bay window caboose / Marrero, La / circa 1990 / Payne
See also our complete Southern Railway Bay Window Survivors scrapbook in Mainlines
Feb 2012 / RWH
Feb 2012 / RWH
Marrero, La / Dec 2017 / RWH
Marrero, La / Dec 2017 / RWH
