MOC: TTX spine car

[gcarstensen]

simple spine cars

all i need now are containers

[aawsum]

Good and simple idea.

WHy did you only build between the wheels ?

I think it would look even better if you covered the whole top.

something like this

[Captain Zuloo]

Great work! Our member pe668 is a big fan of these, I'll have to throw him a link to this thread. They are built very nicely. How many are in the set?

[gcarstensen]

Great work! Our member pe668 is a big fan of these, I'll have to throw him a link to this thread. They are built very nicely. How many are in the set?

currently there's only two but i might buy some bricks to build some more because they use so few pieces

[Captain Zuloo]

currently there's only two but i might buy some bricks to build some more because they use so few pieces

There was only 2 in the official sets, but someone posted on Eurobricks that the smallest version in reality was 5 cars.

[PaulF]

There was only 2 in the official sets, but someone posted on Eurobricks that the smallest version in reality was 5 cars.

Three unit well cars are also common in the real world.

[gcarstensen]

There was only 2 in the official sets, but someone posted on Eurobricks that the smallest version in reality was 5 cars.

these are different from the set TLC released because the sets modeled intermodular well cars not spine cars. But they both carry containers.

[Diamondback]

Three unit well cars are also common in the real world.

Possible--around Seattle, though, almost all I see are fives and spines--typically also in fives IIRC. Although I see that both NSC and Gunderson have triples in the catalog...

As a matter of fact, I reverse-engineered the existing sections to come up with mid-units shortly after it released. Gimme a little time and I'll screencap the new center-units and complete string in MLCAD, once I finish screenie-ing a boxcar door...