nocalfr8tr Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 i like em all...why? hopper - pretty flat...good for end to end's or wholecars. if you got a crate or two the hump is no problem tanker - they're fun, different. look good when they're rocked boxcar (flat n ridge) - i dont need to mention why gondola - they're short...huge ass ridges suck...nothing a pro cant handle my favorite...old school sp flatty woodchip carriers! a steel wall...ummmmm many other types, but i like the usual trains...and i never get to paint autoracks so i'm not bringin them into this....i just did, but damn id love to paint one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SIKFUK Posted March 31, 2002 Share Posted March 31, 2002 that would have to be, the jrsx simplot,reefer[flat white], or the ic central's grey car with the smooth doors, graff just looks so good on those cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HAL Posted March 31, 2002 Share Posted March 31, 2002 I'm gonna move this to the Trainspotting forum, since it seems better suited there. I personally like coiled steel cars for variety. We hardly ever get them, but they're an interesting surface, hanging onto that bar across the side with that little catwalk. Boxcars of any kind are a healthy part of any trainiac's diet, but I support the four food groups....boxes, hoppers, holies, and gondolas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracked Ass Posted March 31, 2002 Share Posted March 31, 2002 Reefers all day. Green BNFE, red/white BNSF, UPFE, Solid Colds regardless of reporting mark, Simplots, Golden West reefers, SPFEs. Close followups include flat or baby ridge boxcars, especially not from my area (SLSF, SFLC, BAEX, VCY, GVSR, BN, BNSF, IC, UP, SP, WP, MP, etc.), autoracks, and good old Railboxes for the play. I'd like to try a steel coil car. Hoppers - ehh. Unless they're a type that might get good play, or I just feel like burning any car, I'll stick to hollows with 3D and all the usual effects, just no fill, to save paint for better cars. Tankers are real low priority due to buffing and sometimes lousy play, but I'll bomb em up or rarely go for a mini piece, stamp or character. Ridged boxcars are my meat and potatoes. I'll do any door, bar or gnarly surface, but I've done so many that I would opt for the flat box (of 2 boxes with equal play) over the ridged. Gondolas are fun once in a while, especially foreign ones. An e2e is practically a wholecar so you can go wide solo or stick a bunch of people across it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest railroadjerk Posted March 31, 2002 Share Posted March 31, 2002 baex...good call cracked waffles...we need more here. ic, csxt baby ridges, another good call cracked....beer car atsf, bnsf... vcy reefers, other flats...oofah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chloe_c. Posted March 31, 2002 Share Posted March 31, 2002 solid gold and tropicana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.C-Walk Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 the reefers always seem to be my fav's especially the western fruit express. cars...also a big fan of the old frisco cars sflc? or something like that...cant remeber....the older atsf's have some extreemly nice panels as well ,its always nice to have a nice day photo with the fucking santa fe logo right behind yourletters...with me its also nice to get cars that are predominately found on the opposite coast....and always gotta love the old low budget companies and there are just to many to name... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest professor poopatronic Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 well there's shitloads that i'd kill to hit, mostly reefers, but here are a few of my favorites that i actually get sometimes friscos of any kind those huge shiny red CP boxes UPFEs golden wests (especially flats) rboxes and if i have to do a hopper, i like those blue golden west ones. a couple of these i've only done one or two of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeybutter Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 how about those scenic cars for mountain rails and shit. theyre super tall with the tinted windows up top but a whole lotta smooth side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raw fish Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 any car with a nice logo... If I could pick any car, it would have to be a green bn, with the huge logo of course. the more rusted, busted, strange, foreign and weird the better... I like really strange cars with strange marks that Im not likely to ever see again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box-Boy Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Who See's "Grand Trunks?" Who the hell catches GT's in their yards? Those have been my favorite trains to rock. I just don't know their circulation routes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracked Ass Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 GT's are so rare out my way that I forgot to mention them as a favorite. As for play, the extendos carry auto parts and will shuttle back and forth from manufacturing to assembly plants (which could still be a long way), but they rarely leave set routes. Regular size GT boxes probably get more varied play and have to be up there on anyone's list, unless they're absolutely sick of them due to high frequency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box-Boy Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Originally posted by Cracked Ass GT's are so rare out my way that I forgot to mention them as a favorite. As for play, the extendos carry auto parts and will shuttle back and forth from manufacturing to assembly plants (which could still be a long way), but they rarely leave set routes. Regular size GT boxes probably get more varied play and have to be up there on anyone's list, unless they're absolutely sick of them due to high frequency. The GT's sometimes come back with some Miami, L.A., or even some Canadian stuff rocked on them. I get what you said about them sorta being played out in a way. For the time I was living near the lay-ups. I wouldn't touch them because I felt as if they were just "local." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mazer1 Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 this week icg ridge box car!:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG T Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 i cant fathom the fact that everyone on this board is sleeping on coal cars!!! they move more than you think!!! other than that... the only cars i get down here that live this black hole of a town are: boxes: sou/ns/csxt/railboxs/atw/sm/kcs(i like the orange ones)/ and a rare gnwr(which i must play with myself as i paint it) hoppers:ns/sou/san/and some of the acfx's roll a little ways... tankers:i'll hit them all... but i hate it when the nasty shit in it spills all over the side and covers my shit up! and you want to talk about intermodels..shit please take some of the ones down here with you!! but all and all i think all the cars i have hit are hiden in the yard around here somewhere in like a bunker or something...:D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mike tyson Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 extended length flatcar golden wests all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nocalfr8tr Posted April 4, 2002 Author Share Posted April 4, 2002 just got the opportunity to dance with an eucx hopper. anyone seen one of those? they're very similar to the grey cn hoppers with the reflectors we used to see. no more of those come much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mike tyson Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 Originally posted by nocalfr8tr just got the opportunity to dance with an eucx hopper. anyone seen one of those? they're very similar to the grey cn hoppers with the reflectors we used to see. no more of those come much. hoppers are gay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracked Ass Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 Hoppers are slept on, and there's too many clean ones...bomb em at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DankLordz Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 those grey IC boxs give me a boner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.C-Walk Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 Re: Who See's "Grand Trunks?" Originally posted by Box-Boy Who the hell catches GT's in their yards? Those have been my favorite trains to rock. I just don't know their circulation routes. hell yeah..i also kinda forgot about gt's those were some real tight shit coming up on....those are some nice panels....i know that they travel between colorado and oregon on the very regular iv seen the same cars both places...we you use to get alot of old la shit on em too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukeofyork Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 Re: Who See's "Grand Trunks?" Originally posted by Box-Boy Who the hell catches GT's in their yards? Those have been my favorite trains to rock. I just don't know their circulation routes. mmm....we get those.. i dont mess with them but so much. busy ass routing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONSTERKIDZ Posted April 9, 2002 Share Posted April 9, 2002 my favorite car changes with the wind.. when i first started out i remember wishing i had a spot that had those white flatcars (Hoppers) hahah then for a few years nothing was better than a UPFE soon after that i fell in love with gvsr flats then southerns, csxt flats etc etc... lately ive been on a reefer kick again so who knows i guess i didnt make much sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TrustEvil Posted April 9, 2002 Share Posted April 9, 2002 hoppers can get boring very fast, but the smooth surface is always sweet....i give priority to the colored hoopers (ATSF,BN,ChessieSystems,GT)....shit looks hella hot. Anything Chessie Systems of course....can't get enough. Boxcars....anyone will do, obviously if i have a choice its gonna be something odd like a Route Rock or McCain reefer or one of those god damn clover green extended height ridgie slgg style cars i see from time to time...clover fucking green ! Gondolas....nice for a change...i missed my chance to hit the RBOX ones a while back, won't do that again. Procor tankers...they look great when someone paints them, but are hardly worth the hassle. Engines, cabooses and track equipment...ya right, i have respect, do you ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frontophile Posted April 10, 2002 Share Posted April 10, 2002 not neccesarily talking about painting old rusty ass SOO hoppers brand new shiny red CPs Flat green CPs UP autoracks or any kind the procor silver and yellow hazordous goods hoppers are neat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KillYurSteel Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 the only cars i seem to paint are autoracks cause thats all that shows up in the yard in my city. but theres the ocasional rbox or hopper but mainly autoracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NATO Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 im not from the US, im interested to know what is the difference between a boxcar and a reefer? i presume a reefer is a variation of a boxcar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest THEBLACKESTWHITEGUY Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 I MUST SAY IT HAS TO BE THE WHITE TROPICANAS...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracked Ass Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 Originally posted by NATO im not from the US, im interested to know what is the difference between a boxcar and a reefer? i presume a reefer is a variation of a boxcar? "Reefer" is short for "mechanical refrigerator", a type of boxcar which has a generator running at one end, keeping the perishable stuff inside cold. Most of these are A) flat sided (or have easy baby ridges) and B) in a hurry to go places, and travel far and wide, often coast to coast in the US in a couple days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NATO Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 / thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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