ACL Ore Car???

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Here's a photo of an ACL ore car:

ACL ore car 720628 TAMPA MAR70.jpg (82.42 KiB) Viewed 5362 times

ACL ore cars.jpg (64.61 KiB) Viewed 5362 times

I tried to find if there were any O-scale models of these cars and all I found was this RMT model:

RMT Ore Car.jpg (88.3 KiB) Viewed 5362 times

It appears to be close, but the details are chunky. Does anybody else make a better one?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Old Atlas made one.......

USH/MG made them brass.....

MTH apparently made some......

Lionel made some.........

http://www.ebay.com/dsc/O-Scale/19145/i ... acat=19145

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Thanks Martin!

The Lionel and MTH versions lack detail, I did spot the Atlas car on your link that looks nice. Also spotted a K-Line model with the same detail, did Atlas get the molds from K-Line?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Thanks Martin!

The Lionel and MTH versions lack detail,

Unsurprising, but maybe a positive - you don't have to remove wrong or ugly stuff and you can add your own.

I did spot the Atlas car on your link that looks nice.

those used to be popular amongst the ore hauling modelers,

Also spotted a K-Line model with the same detail, did Atlas get the molds from K-Line?

Who knows? Does Macy's and Gimbel's?

[ScaleCraft]

Here's a photo of an ACL ore car:

ACL ore car 720628 TAMPA MAR70.jpg

Kewl! Lookit that...prototypical hand lettering. Makes some of that really bad 0 scale hand lettering look really good.

[sarge]

The Atlas car was designed by Ted Stepek, tooled and produced by ROCo in Austria long before K-line existed. It's a B&LE prototype.

[De Bruin]

Interesting , the notes in the register indicate ore cars leased from the B&LE, sure enough you can see the painted out herald bleeding through the ACL example. For "Bone Valley" service perhaps? Me like.

Agree the Roco Atlas Ore cars are nicely detailed if perhaps a tad thick, but opinion- you know for an injection mold pretty good anyway. They can certainly be easily modified to a finer detail level.
( But you know how apparently helpless and unskilled we've all become...... )
Pete

[rilynes]

If you look closely at the photo of the ACL car, you will see the faded herald in the upper right panel - it is (was) a B&LE car, making the Atlas car the correct model to start with.

[E7]

Bob,

I have seen what I would call passable examples on Ebay. I wasn't looking to buy, so I don't recall their specifics, try this search:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=br ... acat=19145

Rich

Here's one specifying 2R:

http://www.ebay.com/dsc/O-Scale/19145/i ... r%22+%2B2R

Take note it still pops up 3R stuff!

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Thanks Rich!

Here's a photo of one of those Atlas cars on Ebay:

Atlas B&LE 70ton ore car.jpg (171.66 KiB) Viewed 5279 times

and again, the RMT car:

RMT Ore Car.jpg (88.3 KiB) Viewed 5279 times

Other than the thick pads under the side ribs all other features seem similar between the two makers cars.

The Atlas car doesn't have roller bearing trucks, good thing.

ACL Color Guide book says numbers 720001-720700 were assigned to gravel service in Live Oak Fl, then stone service in Trego Va, and also to Becker Sand and Gravel in Marlboro SC. 20'-9" long inside