{"id":535,"date":"2010-05-27T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2021-06-21T17:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T17:42:37","slug":"a-red-tofc-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"A red TOFC car built by Bill Johann"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The last intermodal car in this short series is a red TOFC car. There were four of them in the OO SIG Inventory, the other three being similar but of a slightly different design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are in fact scratchbuilt. The first photo shows one of these cars with a full sized OO trailer (kitbashed from a toy I believe) and the second photo shows one under construction, primed for painting. The construction photo was sent me by Bill Johann back in 1991, along with a photo of a completed car of the same type, car number 367, with a trailer of the same type. I think he sent it to me at the time because I was a younger guy and maybe could be enticed to get interested in more modern equipment. At the time though I was very focused on the 40\u2019s-50\u2019s period and I did not follow up on this. Now, I actually have three distinct groups of equipment; transition era, 1920s era, and \u201cmodern\u201d 1980s era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These cars are short units that run great on the 26\u201d radius curves of my layout. I am going to have to put together a good, 1980s era locomotive sometime soon to pull these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One additional red car needs more work and is still not usable but between well cars and spine cars and other TOFC cars I have a total of ten units that will operate together and they really are a pleasure to run, they look so much like the trains we see still see today out in the west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next couple weeks I will be pretty tied up and will have a limited ability to post (or ready the Inventory) but be watching for more on that as soon as practical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE: I learned from Pierre Bourassa that he made the trailer in the photo. It was made in a different manner than the others with the cars which are marked as being by Bill Johann. Also, Johann described these cars as \u201cNS type TOFC\/COFC flats as converted from boxcars.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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