{"id":1608,"date":"2008-11-13T23:45:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T04:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2008-11-25T22:13:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T03:13:59","slug":"carfloat-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1608","title":{"rendered":"Carfloat Build"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walther’s Carfloat Kit<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I have gone as far as I can with the engine project, so I decided to move onto the carfloat.\u00a0 I would like to have something new to see before showing the layout at the Toronto Xmas Train Show<\/a> in a couple weeks.\u00a0 I managed to snag one from eBay earlier this year for a reasonable cost.\u00a0 Since Walther’s discontinued them a few years ago they seem to go for a fortune on eBay.\u00a0 I recently learned that Walther’s is re-releasing these early next year, which is great because I need a few more and don’t want to pay $100 each for them…<\/p>\n

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I was going to scratchbuild the carfloats and managed to acquire a set of original blueprints for the floats built at the B&O Yard at Staten Island.\u00a0 Once I studied the drawings and compared them with a Walther’s carfloat I borrowed from a friend, I found that the Walther’s float has been very precisely built around the same drawings!\u00a0 Its hard to justify the effort of scratchbuild them when the commercial version is so well done.<\/p>\n

I could go on for a while about this.\u00a0 While its great that precise kits are available, scratchbuilding as a hobby dies a bit whenever these are released.\u00a0 I enjoy scratchbuilding, but the moment someone dismisses a few months of work with “oh, that’s Walther’s kit” I want to cry….<\/p>\n

I will take advantage of this, and spend my time on the areas that require a modelers touch.\u00a0 I guess that is the upside to commercial kits.<\/p>\n

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This is a pretty easy kit to build.\u00a0 I will be replacing the plastic rail with metal rail, but other than that I just built it stock.\u00a0 I will paint it up and weather it heavily to make it look well used.\u00a0 Similar to this…<\/p>\n

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What a great picture!\u00a0 Click on it to see a huge version with lots of great detail.\u00a0 This is CNJ 1001 sitting on a float (slightly different than the Walther’s version) in front of a dilapidated\u00a0 Bronx Terminal.\u00a0 This would be in the mid to late ’50’s.<\/p>\n

On to Next Section<\/a><\/p>\n

-T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Walther’s Carfloat Kit I have gone as far as I can with the engine project, so I decided to move onto the carfloat.\u00a0 I would like to have something new to see before showing the layout at the Toronto Xmas Train Show in a couple weeks.\u00a0 I managed to snag one from eBay earlier this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}