Flatbed Model Train

[ScaleCraft]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/flatbed-model- ... 1733018750

Made in China. Never seen truss rods lay flat alongside frame rails before. And what is the deal on the journal boxes? Looks like pinwheels. Must be something I missed the briefing on.

Is that scribed white styrene decking? Of course, horrible photo, hard to discern.

But, for $250 you, too can have a PRC short fictional railroad flatcar with James Bond Aston-Martin journal box covers.

The leaf spring trucks probably make this worth the purchase.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Strange trucks, indeed!

Maybe I can teach them how to install trussrod underbodies? Odd AB brake system, too......

I think those tricks are actually On3, too.

[J. S. Bach]

The truss rods look fine to me, they can be seen in the first photo and in the second there is "air" between them and the frame; I can see the brake cylinder under one of the rods. But $54.93 to ship an On3 flatcar????

[ScaleCraft]

The truss rods look fine to me, they can be seen in the first photo and in the second there is "air" between them and the frame; I can see the brake cylinder under one of the rods. But $54.93 to ship an On3 flatcar????

Go through the queenposts just fine. Angle towards the frame......then bend horizontal and parallel the frame rail. They need to be attached to the frame so you can tighten the turnbuckles and tweak the car.

If you did that, the horizontal bits along the frame would just lift off. Usually connects to a crossbrace in the frame.