Walthers vs Athearn intermodal

[@sparky107107]

nice video. always nice to see what one can expect when buying certain cars and brands. you give the problems and the solutions. and did so in a nice manner. thanks for sharing

[@chrislef2002]

I will try the smaller wheels on the Walthers! All of mine rub and i have cut grooves on the underside with a dremel, but at some curves they still rub! And had to install the red kadee washers as well! It is disappointing to have to do so an these otherwise decent cars! As for Kato Well Cars... once you get a set... You Will want more of them.., they are amazing!

[@BattleshipOrion]

The wellcars are measured by there maximum length container they can handle. It is common to mistake the big "40", "45", "48", and" 53" for part of the road number. On every wellcar the road number is smaller than the well measurement. So your comparing a 48" wellcar from Athearn to a 53" wellcar from Walthers, which in turn makes the comparison biased. I have a TTX 53 foot wellcar from Walthers, and a 48 foot maxi III wellcar from Athearn, the only difference (so far) is which one is on the rip track more often (the Athearn car).

[@og-bg6.2]

Sorry for the late comment, but do you happen to know of any HO scale 53 foot well cars that wont drag on EZ track curves?

[@joelstrain6664]

have you ever had any Atlas piggyback cars? or Kato intermodal well cars?

[@og-bg6.2]

Walthers thought it would be funny to ship mine missing couplers. Now I have to install like 8 couplers. I also got a csx gevo from walthers and the truck just fell off when I took it out of the box. I'm very disappointed with walthers this year.

[@og-bg6.2]

@@ShawnsTrains265 that's very nice of you, but I have plenty of spare couplers. I've been putting couplers on one car each day. My intermodal train is slowly growing lol.

[@CentralJerseyRailfan]

If you have missing couplers it shouldn't really be a problem if you have enough spare Kadee couplers. They're the best in the industry

[@matthewjones1119]

Where is the club located?

[@mgr_video_productions]

Great video!

[@AJDeere]

The lengths can't be compared because you are comparing different length well cars. A 48 foot and a 53 foot

[@leroyducharme2477]

I had the opportunity to talk with actual engineer ask how the 89 flatcars handled on the track. They were as bad on the real railroad and were not liked.

[@tommyscanlon1099]

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