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Journal by UseTheSource on Saturday January 14, 2006 @10:41PM

Somebody from another site I frequent sent me some older N-scale stuff. Among the cars they sent me was a German railcar.

You can see pictures of it here and here.

Besides the rounded roof and smaller doors, it looks like underneath the porches on either end, there are a couple of bumpers on either side of each of the couplers. Also, the trucks have only one axle, instead of two. These features are really unusual for North American freight cars. Is that how they look in Germany?

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yep (Score:2)

by FidelCatsro ( 861135 ) * writes:

They always have the bumpers :D which is fun because you can try crashing the trains right into them at full speed to make them couple up .. as for the axles well I haven't really looked that closely .
- For comparison... (Score:1)
  
  by UseTheSource ( 66510 ) writes:
  
  Here's what North American boxcars typically look [comcast.net] like [comcast.net]. I say "North American," because the Canucks use the same equipment as we do in the US. In fact, the second picture is of my model of a Canadian National Railway [www.cn.ca] car, which we see here sometimes in the US, as well.
  
  The cars we have here have no bumpers, the trucks have two axles each, the doors are more squarish, and the rooves tend to be flatter. There's also typically a walkway running down the middle of the roof.
  
  It's always interesting to see
  - Re:For comparison... (Score:2)
    
    by FidelCatsro ( 861135 ) * writes:
    
    heh I think they removed the walkways on top over here because of too many Victorian era knife fights atop the orient express ;)
    - Re:For comparison... (Score:1)
      
      by UseTheSource ( 66510 ) writes:
      
      Hehehe... I guess they need to do that here now, too. I was watching Broken Arrow on the teevee last night, and they were having gunfights on top of a train. I'm sure there are lots of other examples of this in the movies.
      - Re:For comparison... (Score:2)
        
        by FidelCatsro ( 861135 ) * writes:
        
        They ussualy end up with someone getting smacked on the head by tunnel
        
        Re:For comparison... (Score:1)
        
        by UseTheSource ( 66510 ) writes:
        
        Or getting chopped up by a helicopter's rotor blades, like in "Broken Arrow." [imdb.com] Something tells me they would have been completely chopped in half in real life, but I guess the producer/director didn't want to make it too graphic.
        
        Re:For comparison... (Score:2)
        
        by FidelCatsro ( 861135 ) * writes:
        
        That's the exception that proves the rule ;)

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