Wheels of Time Blog
Wednesday
Sep042019

The humble tractor . . . Hyster!

For our HO and N scale fans - the Hyster Forklift Truck! These were familar equipment in lumber yards, warehouses, factories, and construction sites. The forklift is positionable to be glued as loading a railroad flatcar or flatbed truck or in the various down positions.

Order directly through our Shapeways store! First one sending us a photo of our Wheels of Time finished and nicely painted Hyster forklift truck will be posted here and will receive a free prize of one of our HO or N scale Medium to Heavy Duty Everyday Work Trucks of your choice.
HO scale link    N scale link
Load is for illustration purposes. You can get an HO scale lumber load here.
Hyster forklift

PS - Once model is washed and all the wax is removed, spray with primer. Then use Model Master Lacquer base "Chrysler Yellow" No. 28104 for a nice finished. Paint the tires, steering wheel, and seat black.

Thursday
Jul252019

DRGW ex-Golden West PC&F boxcars!

Wheels of Time Pacific Car & Foundry Exterior Post Insulatd Boxcars -

These cars lettered DRGW . . . were originally ex-D&RGW cars refurbished and leased back by Greenbier to SP under the reporting marks of GVSR. After SP dissolved Golden West Service, it was repatriated back to SP under DRGW reporting marks. The UP kept their heritage reporting marks alive after their merged of SP.

Limited availability. Check out the prototype details and decoration.

Thursday
Jul252019

Conrail PC&F!

Wheels of Time N scale Pacfic Car & Foundry Exterior Post Insulated Boxcars -

Conrail inherited a batched of 50-ft PC&F Exterior Post Insulated Boxcar from the Penn Central (PC). This was PC only purchase from PC&F. They were originally purchased for their Merchants Despatch Transportation (MDT) in 1968. MDT continued to operate as a subsidary under Conrail - the reason for lettering "Merchants Despatch Transportation Corporation Owner and Lessor"

Limited availability.  Check it out.

Wednesday
Jul102019

Ah finally!

Wheels of Time is shipping our excellent rendition of our N scale Pacific Car & Foundry Exterior Post Insulated Boxcars to our customers (that was a mouthful). We will post PayPal shopping carts on our web site once we complete all of our pre-ordered customers.

 

Friday
Apr192019

Spring clean up sale!

We found a bunch of resin casting for UP 69-ft Common Standard postal baggage-express cars and SP 70-ft Common Standard baggage-express cars in N scale. Check it out. First come, first serve until we run out.

N scale SP 70-B-x
N scale UP 69-BP-30-x (Note photo labeling should be 69-ft not 60-ft

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