two 1930s American freight trains with ten new freight car MOCs - real world models

[Murdoch17]

I've had these ten train cars built for months now (years in some cases!) and thought I'd better upload them before I forgot again.

The two old-fashioned freight trains consist of the following items (in no particular order):

- red standard caboose
- two boxcars
- three generic open-top wagons
- flatcar with rail load
- OCTAN fuel tank car
- livestock car with cow
- green streamlined caboose

This green 1930's streamlined caboose was inspired by a very similar real-world Wabash caboose located on the Katy Rail-Trail at St. Charles, Missouri.

This caboose model (along with the green streamlined one) is inspired build-wise by the Katy Caboose (as in, "The Caboose who got Loose" from the children's book) model I copied in late 2021 from TrainedBricks' MOC.

These two nearly-identical boxcars were inspired by set 7597 (Western Train Chase) from the 2010 Toy Story 3 line. They are 99% the same except for colors in a few places, as not many train cars are identical to each other - especially freight!

The simplest car of all: a flat car with railroad track / rails strapped to the top in four rows.

These three generic wagons cars are actually British Railways plank wagon models, not American at all... but they work well enough for me! These cars were designed by the_chestertonian, but sadly he deleted all his photos.

This is just a quickly-mocked up tanker car in OCTAN colors. It's nothing too fancy, but it does look good. (to me at least)

This livestock car was heavily inspired by 2014 CITY set 60052 (Cargo Train) but with a roof for more realism. I can now understand why LEGO left it open top in the set, but I managed to make it work. The roof (which was designed with the same look as the boxcars) is even removable and the ramps fold down so you can take out the cow.

Believe it or not, the freight cars wouldn't fit in this box in any other configuration!

That's all I have...

Thoughts?

Edited June 30, 2023 by Murdoch17

[Feuer Zug]

Good collection of rolling stock. They fit in the time you're shooting for.

[Murdoch17]

5 hours ago, Feuer Zug said:

Good collection of rolling stock. They fit in the time you're shooting for.

Thank you! You are correct: I have a 1910s - '60s town built with trains of the heyday of steam to around the time of the diesel takeover.

The issue is I have nowhere to place all my buildings and trains - if I pulled everything out of storage, I would have no space for me! 

Edited July 3, 2023 by Murdoch17