Most of my rolling stock is now scratchbuilt. Exceptions are some boxcars and gondolas from Trout Creek, boxcars from B.T.S., and stock cars built from Puffing Billy kits. The latter are actually narrow-gauge cars, but will have to suffice until I have time to scratchbuilt some. Click on the pictures below to see larger images.

B&O M-3 Boxcar. Kitbashed from B.T.S. kit. Lettering: Clover House.

LV Boxcars. Number Scratchbuilt: 4; Material: styrene and wood; Lettering: Art Griffin. These boxcars are based on some fuzzy photos of Lehigh Valley boxcars and plans for a Pennsylvania Xa boxcar. Photos of these cars show varying arrangements of the lettering from car to car.

LV Lumber Cars. Number Scratchbuilt: 6; Material: wood; Lettering: Clover House. Note the small door at the end which allows long planks to be loaded. This car appears in the ORER's for 1888 and 1892. Because I only had a photo showing one end of the car, I had to do some guessing regarding the lettering scheme; The LV liked to label its cars according to function.

One of four boxcars of this type scratchbuilt of styrene. The plans are generic for boxcars of the 1870's - 1880's. Note the vary basic safely equipment, small size, exposed end beams, and only two truss rods. A car of this size had a capacity of 20 tons.

This gondola was built for a contest, and hence has a higher standard of detailing. The brake gear was completely built up from brass and styrene, and almost works. They are a little far from the wheels to allow the car to negotiate curves. Note that on these early cars that brakes were often applied to one truck only.

Trout Creek Engineering kit, with some modifications in details to match photos of LV boxcars. Decals from Clover House.

Trout Creek Engineering kit.

I don't know the purpose of this car. It was constructed from a photo in the Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette.