05-08-2013, 01:42 PM
Here's a Walthers Horizon car that I recently pulled out to bring up to consistent standards with the others I have. As shown here, it's pretty much stock except for a coat of grimy black and a little weathering on the underframe. It even still has the horn-hook couplers that Walthers stopped including in the 1990s sometime, if not earlier.
Horizons get a lot of use on Midwest services, and there are also some remaining in California on Surfliner and San Joaquin trains. I'll show what I'm doing to Walthers Horizons to bring them up to a better standard, inspired by the late Frank Cicero's articles in RMC. A shame we lost the guy, nobody's doing anything like that any more.
Horizons get a lot of use on Midwest services, and there are also some remaining in California on Surfliner and San Joaquin trains. I'll show what I'm doing to Walthers Horizons to bring them up to a better standard, inspired by the late Frank Cicero's articles in RMC. A shame we lost the guy, nobody's doing anything like that any more.