Model Railroading > Just testing out my new oil tanks...

33 HO scale Rivet Counter series tanks from ScaleTrains. Plus a pair of Tangent BNSF buffer service airslides. I Picked them up from my local shop Railmaster Hobbies on Tuesday afternoon, tested them out at the train club Tuesday night, right out of the box. With the recent downturn in domestic oil though, I guess I should park them on a long forgotten siding somewhere in western Montana now huh... NAH!

Snapped a couple iPhone panoramas to share.

~ Mr. MRL

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Is there a space between the engine and the train end?
Erwin from Austria

Excellent!!!!!!!

As was said, Excellent train  you have there. I just know the pocket book took quite a hit I'm sure but worth it.

Stanley Jackowski
Valrico, FL

MrMRL Wrote:
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> With the recent downturn in domestic oil though,
> I guess I should park them on > a long forgotten
> siding somewhere in western
> Montana
>
> ~ Mr. MRL

The good thing about modeling a time period is you can run something that looks both good and realistic.  Coal seems to be circling the drain but I can always model coal trains on the D&RGW during it's caboose era!

That said, it is cool to be able to model trains that you can actually watch too; if only I could of have done that as well as we can now back in the 1970's.  Great looking unit tank car train!

Cheers, Jim Fitch

WOW!!!! 33 rivet counter cars, very impressive train and quite the investment

Jeff

>  quite the investment
>

If running contemporary trains is what brings you joy, then the investment is immaterial so long as you have shoes on your feet.

Sweet oil train, boss! Two-man HO crew too? I'm sure.

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spandfecerwin Wrote:
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> Is there a space between the engine and the train
> end?
> Erwin from Austria

Oh yeah, the mainline run on the club layout's lower level is almost 7 scale miles, with an additional 4-5 on the recently opened upper level. It's just kinda hard finding any good spots to get the whole train in one shot without having to use a super zoom for compression.

Mr. MRL

What are their road numbers?
 

wjpyper Wrote:
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> What are their road numbers?
>  

24 different 259XXX series tanks along with 9 duplicates that will have random digits changed...

Mr. MRL

Looked impressive sitting in the yard last night.  We also have another member in the club that has ordered 71 rivet counter tank cars.  Thank you for supporting you LHS.

 

Jeff Smith
Lakewood, CA
RailMaster Hobbies

Tanks a lot for posting!