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Re: When was your last Athearn kit? - nkp_174 - 11-05-2009
Based on the discussion, I don't think it is relevant, but Silver Streak offered a fishbelly reefer (can't recall if they were wood or steel).
Re: When was your last Athearn kit? - Sumpter250 - 11-05-2009
I have to have at least 50 unbuilt, and with a week, I might be able to count the ones that are built. A 40' flat car kit was used for the last kitbash(a year ago), a depressed center car for delivering a 42' cabin cruiser (also kitbashed from an Athearn boat).
Prior to that, about twentyfive Athearn (along with fifteen Accurail) wood reefers, for a train for my Athearn Clinchfield Challenger to pull. The Atheran cars had to all be renumbered.
I still have a ton of BB kits designated for specific kitbash projects.
Wayne, I have a Merchants Despatch Reefer that was a wood kit. Seeing yours, I now have to figure out where mine is. I suspect it's in one of the "multipack" boxes I build for ease of transport.
Re: When was your last Athearn kit? - doctorwayne - 11-05-2009
Sumpter250 Wrote:Wayne, I have a Merchants Despatch Reefer that was a wood kit. Seeing yours, I now have to figure out where mine is. I suspect it's in one of the "multipack" boxes I build for ease of transport.
I know what you mean about stuff "going missing". Because I buy lots of used rolling stock with no boxes, and also scratchbuild a few cars, I'm always scrounging for boxes to use in my "staging yard storage area"
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Most gondolas, and flatcars, along with some hoppers are stored two-to-a-box, while the majority of hoppers are four-to-a-box, using Athearn passenger car boxes. Not too much is in its original box, either. Locos (rarely stored), passenger cars, and MoW equipment is all stored in custom-built trays in covered fruit boxes like the Mountain Goat pear boxes seen beneath the layout here:
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Too bad I'm not modelling Great Northern.
Wayne
Re: When was your last Athearn kit? - Russ Bellinis - 11-05-2009
Do the boxes get marked with what is in them before you put them away, Wayne? I could see where having a bunch of boxes stored under the layout without having them labeled would create confusion. Of course it might make for an interesting operating session. Just pull out a bunch of random boxes and find places to send whatever cars are in the boxes.
Re: When was your last Athearn kit? - doctorwayne - 11-05-2009
The boxes are all labelled, Russ, usually on masking tape, and they're "sorta" sorted as to roadnames/regions. However, when I'm looking for, for instance, a particular Athearn 50' car, I don't always recall whether it's in its original box or in a Proto or Walthers box, which are a better fit for longer cars. With the empty boxes (upside-down) for the cars currently on the layout mixed in with the full boxes, it can be fun trying to locate a specific car (or the empty box for a car coming off the layout).
Once I complete the 60 or-so kits/rebuilds still sitting in my workshop, I'll be able to better organise the shelves, and will probably label the shelves themselves with the appropriate roadnames.
Wayne