{"id":310,"date":"2012-12-25T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2021-06-24T01:05:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:05:46","slug":"more-ahm-stock-car-conversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"More AHM Stock Car Conversions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a last project of the year (I like to alternate harder and easier projects) I had in mind to finish up three HO stock car conversions. These were inspired by the overscale AHM HO model I described in this article. There we learn it is based on a NYC prototype<\/a> and is 15\u201d too wide in HO. In OO it ends up as being 36\u2019 long, a bit short in length but OK for freelancing as I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This photo shows my set of four. The NYC model is the one in the earlier article and was made by Bill Gilbert. It is on Schorr trucks and is a handsome car. He also replaced the roof walk, a step I did not take in the spirit of keeping the conversion simple. This was one of those projects where I kept reminding myself, no heroics! Just make a simple, clean model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For my conversions I tried a couple different truck types on the cars but felt that Scale-Craft trucks gave perhaps the best look of the alternatives due to the wheelbase and the look. The UP car is just the stock version of the car on S-C trucks, and the Orient cars I think came put pretty well. They would look even better if they were 40\u2019 long, and it does not help that the Scale-Craft stock car is 42\u2019 long. Still, the area of the setting of my layout was a major one for cattle shipping and there will be a place for these cars on the regular running roster. And they were again a nice and relatively easy project to end the year with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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