Definitely looks like its worth it

I think you made a mistake when you said “Walthers ready to roll” lol

maybe a video on the various 5 car maxi wellcars.. I have a bit of a mix of Walthers 53' and 48' single cars, plus some Athearn 48' singles and a 56' single with 26'containers and an Atlas 3car set like you have shown and a couple of sets of sec hand 5 car Athearn 48' well cars. The biggest problem with the lighter cars is they like to straight line corners if used at the front of a long consist..

Hi Dylan, could any of these fit a standard-ish 1:64 hot wheels car? Thanks for putting up these comparisons!

The doors are so realistic, they really are that hard to open in real life

I’m looking for some, along with 53’ intermodal cars and some 89’ trailer train flats to complete my intermodal train

Had a chance to buy some atherns 53’ for 18.00 but didn’t

Operator and s the best for budget and details

ScaleTrains purchased the MTH HO scale line.

American Limited!!!

I owned lot of Roundhouse ore cars & few Athearn & walthers .

This helped me tremendously. I went with the Walthers Proto. Can be handled without worry and looks really good. The Atlas will be my next purchase.

Hello thanks for the video. Are these the only two 53ft spine cars? I'm primarily an Amtraker but i decided to invest in some intermodal to run and started buying spine cars on a whim only to find out that none of them hold 53ft trailers.

The show had a ton more vendors and another layout for this January show and tons of people were there

I don't think any manufacturer can compare with the old Varney die cast ore cars. Thanks for posting the comparison as I want to get a few ore cars for the layout. I don't usually have any problems with rolling stock rolling because I use Walthers Proto 2000 metal wheel sets. Cheers from eastern TN

You could look for the old AHM/ IHC ore cars with truck mounted couplers they should be quite common as they were everywhere in the 60s-70s.

one of the most expensive "resells" cars on ebay over the last 10 years or so. I have a bunch of MDC (original factory runs) that I bought for like 5 bucks each and then upgraded with metal wheels and number 5 kadee's, put in loads, etc. I always liked the size of them because I usually had small layouts (though I have run like all 50 + on a club layout - why you want kadee's on them) and a small string looks good vs a 90 foot coal gondola under a mine... but that's just my opinion. I haven't cut one up yet to "narrow gauge" (I have a tichi trains 12 pack of ore cars waiting for that job) but I have been tempted to do a few. (into HOn3).

In reality, Ore-cars were connected in cuts of four with drawbars and Knuckle Couplers on the outer cars to connect another cut of four Ore-cars.

I like your comparisons. You might want to research the differences in prototype ore cars. Most were built to carry iron ore. Some were modified to carry taconite. Also ore cars tended to be railroad specific. While Missabe and Bessemer cars were similar, they were different from cars owned by GN, NP, and other Lake Superior lines. You would typically find the same cars in ore trains, as they rarely traveled off the property. Also some roads used 4-car drawbar connected sets, while most others used cars with couplers on both ends.

Great video Dylan! I believe Athearn has bumped these ore cars down to the Roundhouse line as they did some reshuffling and a bit of re-branding last year (probably the biggest is dropping the "Ready to Roll" name and simply calling it the "Athearn" line). I'm also interested to see what Scaletrains does with the former MTH tooled ore cars. They looked to detailed for the "Kit Classics" line, so I'm curious if they be part of the new "Hypotipical" line they just announced. Also, the og Roundhouse cars are excellent rollers, and they perform even better when you stick Athearn metal wheels on them!

what is up with the walthers mainline cars.. only one had couplers. I noticed at a hobby shop I went to last week, they had 3 packs of them and all had missing couplers on 1 too 3 of the cars.

INTERMOUNTAIN IS THE BEST AS ITS IN AEROFLOW II which carries 21 more tons than conventional steel Beth gone in real world

This film is to fast..., like hight speed train. Please, next time slow down... Greetings from Poland ,... ps. sorry for my english😉

The RTR Walthers aren’t even remotely worth what they’re asking for them with the crappy plastic panels they’re still using, and they’re starting to show up on the internet with discounted pricing to get rid of them. Intermountain is far more detailed for the older racks.

If anyone out there gets any info about an announcement for a new run of the Kato MAXI IV's, please leave me a comment or you can contact me on FB. I am hopeful a new run will be in the works before long! :D

Ah yes, Joplin. Not much of a railroad scene there these days. The only reason _anyone_ has heard of it was because of the tornado that flattened a good third of the city back in 2011. However, it's good to know that this particular train show seems to have been a decent recovery story.

So I first O gauge layout belongs to the TexLa Model Railroad club. I actually helped design and build it. It’s about to be VERY prominently featured on my channel. The second one gauge layout belongs to the Houston Tinplate Operators Society. They are based out of the Memorial City Mall in Houston, Texas. I was a member there for a short time while I was working mostly out of Houston and Beaumont with the railroad.

Walthers recently announced they are making their 53' 3 unit Mainline well cars with articulated joints.

I went to this show. Picked up N scale 3 double packs of MTL 89" TTX flat deck flat cars for the wind turbine train im making. I also picked up some Z marklin and MTL rolling stock. I also saw those N scale mini diorama's. So i bought a Kato diorama kit online. And I want to build a couple little dioramas. My freinds daughter loved the mini dioramas. My friend and I want to build a bunch. He wants to get his church involved.

Love it When People Show More of the Ground Instead the The Product they are selling.

Slow down, I was getting motion sick...

When You Go To A Train Show Stay Till CLOSING it will Be Worth it.

You’ll Come Back next year. Oh By the Way next time Bring cash Next time. Do your Homework Then Hit the Next Show When you go.

Nice Show but could You Please slow Down it’s hard to See what they Had to offer.

could you go any faster, I think I see a train??

Thanks for sharing. The N scale layout I had in the show is around the 11:0 minute mark. Arbuckle Model Railroaders.

There's a sign on, literally, every vendor and exhibitors booth or layout. All you have do is shoot the sign before you start shooting the booth or layout. You actually went by co hosts OMRAs layout sign. Not sure why you would think a group from south Texas was a sponsor but completely missed the fact its sponsored by local groups. Also, make yourself a script, you'll come across a lot more professional.

The vendor you said you bought most stuff is the Oklahoma Model Railroad Museum. They are one of the organizers of the show.

Thank you for sharing. I find it very helpful that you stopped at many of the tables for us to see what was for sale. Mostly, because this show is so far from my location in the west coast. This helps us as the viewer to still make the connection to the vendor if we see something of interest to possibly purchase.

Nice may have to visit this show next year

I go to this show alot seller count does seem to go up and down each time the bigger sellers are normally always there.

Good comparison. In my opinion the Accurail and IMRC models are pretty far from accurate for a ACF prototype, Athearn nails it very well, so that’s what I’d consider for the ACF cars you showed. Between the 2 3281s by Walthers and AML, I’d say it would come down purely to whether you prefer price or detail more. I think you should’ve also included the Walthers Trinity 2980 2 bay car, as those are a pretty common prototype even today.

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Never knew about this one im definitely going to check it out next time seems like you could find pretty much everything there!

Is there a non-FB page listing items for sale?

I keep seeing these on eBay, though strangely, I haven't seen any at local shows.

I failed to mention the admission price for this show was $20, which is higher than usual but... still worth it if you are close and like seeing the models. -Dillon of RWTX

Brand new cars in '79,80, did not have, Yellow dot wheel insp.symbols. Everything before that did, till they got a new coat of paint. The variables were just incredible. I guess that's why I like it so much.

Be that as it may, I've still got a lotta tank cars.

If you're a period modeler, (1978-1980), like me you gotta do a little research. What was brand new in that period? What old dilapidated cars were still in use then. What I buy and don't buy, depends a lot on Capy markings, and Lube plates. I end up having to do a lot of it myself.