Heavyweight Coaches now available

Posted:
Mon May 25, 2009 3:36 pm
by KCJones
Now available on my web site
http://www.dickyjim.com/page21.htmlHW-Baggage.jpg
HW-Combine.jpg
HW-Diner.jpg
HW-Coach.jpg
HW-Obs.jpg
Re: Heavyweight Coaches now available

Posted:
Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:06 pm
by Hawk
Railworks wrote:Brilliant coaches.....why no replies
cheers,
Railworks.
Most likely because very shortly after he made that post the railsimamerica site was shut down and railworksamerica has only been going now for about 3 days.

Re: Heavyweight Coaches now available

Posted:
Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:00 pm
by Railworks
Good point.......................they are beautiful though.
regards,
Railworks.
Re: Heavyweight Coaches now available

Posted:
Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:01 pm
by kin3
They are nice and I will most likely buy them but I have a dumb question. What periods would this cover? I like the 1900 thru say about 1960.
Re: Heavyweight Coaches now available

Posted:
Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:30 am
by GreatNortherner
Hi,
I think 1900 might a bit early, at least for cars of this construction being widely used. I'd say late 1910s, on through the 20s might be when most railroads modernized their fleets of ageing coaches which often still had wooden bodies back then, introduced new name trains, and so forth. I only know this for sure for a few railroads though, but my guess is that with WW1 just being over, traffic and economy increasing rapidly, this might have been pretty common for other roads, too.
Cheers!
Michael
Re: Heavyweight Coaches now available

Posted:
Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:54 am
by kin3
GreatNortherner wrote:Hi,
I think 1900 might a bit early, at least for cars of this construction being widely used. I'd say late 1910s, on through the 20s might be when most railroads modernized their fleets of ageing coaches which often still had wooden bodies back then, introduced new name trains, and so forth. I only know this for sure for a few railroads though, but my guess is that with WW1 just being over, traffic and economy increasing rapidly, this might have been pretty common for other roads, too.
Cheers!
Michael
Thanks Michael for the info, I will buy these and use them with the new steam engines that are starting to appear.