Model Railroading > Show us a Rent-A-Wreck unit

Here is mine.

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Nice! I especially like the weathering you've done on the trucks.

Here's one of mine, a Kato SD45 painted by me.

Andy

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 Both are great-looking models!

Here's one of mine. LTEX 9293.

Jim

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Awwww, now come on Trainorders modelers...Hiroshi starts a thread encouraging people to display their Rent-A-Wrecks, and out of 650 that read (so far) the thread only 3 - including the original poster - actually attach a photo.  Surely there must be more leaser models to take part than that.

Jim

Here's one painted for my fictitious rebuilding company. And for a little nostalgia, it's a GSB and still runs good. No idea what happened to the bell.

Doug Wetherhold
Macungie, PA

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Jimmies Wrote:
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> Awwww, now come on Trainorders modelers...Hiroshi
> starts a thread encouraging people to display
> their Rent-A-Wrecks, and out of 650 that read (so
> far) the thread only 3 - including the original
> poster - actually attach a photo.  Surely there
> must be more leaser models to take part than
> that.
>
> Jim

I do need a rent-a-wreck or two for my era. Haven’t gotten to it - yet!

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don't have much unpacked in the form of total wrecks but.....

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Doug, I've never heard of GSB...was it a kit?  Brass or plastic, etc?  Whatever it is, it looks great.  But can you tell us a little bit about GSB models?

Thanks!

-Tom

Sasquatch Wrote:
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> Doug, I've never heard of GSB...was it a kit? 
> Brass or plastic, etc?  Whatever it is, it looks
> great.  But can you tell us a little bit about
> GSB models?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Tom

Old model from the 70's. One of the first "new era" model manufacturers. Same league as Intermountain, Red Caboose and High Tech Models.

Here's the instructions. As Phall said, these were early "new age" models with different parts options and a can motor known as "The Tan Can". They were a plastic kits. The biggest drawback was they had a plastic frame so they were light.

They also made a nice interior kit for the Athearn wide vision caboose.

It's a shame they weren't around longer. They were nicely detailed and ran good. I wouldn't hesitate to buy them if I could find them at a show.

Look for their ads in an early 80's era Model Railroader.

Doug Wetherhold
Macungie, PA



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/23/19 20:30 by ALCO630.

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The GSB models were the first scale hood width SD40-2 models in HO. One story goes Irv Athearn went to the GSB booth at an NMRA convention where the pre production models were on display. Irv wanted to congratulate them entering the hobby and the quality of their diework. Apparently they made some pretty disparaging comments about Athearn models. Irv went up to his motel room and called his home office to tell them he wanted the crew to drop everything they were doing and get a scale hood width SD40-2 into production asap. This was back in the days when all design and production was done in house in the USA.

Thanks Doug, and fbe; I appreciate the history lesson...fun story about Irv, too!

-Tom

PHall Wrote:
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> Old model from the 70's. One of the first "new
> era" model manufacturers. Same league as
> Intermountain, Red Caboose and High Tech Models.