Oil Car sitting alongside the engine Glanville Lumber Company engine house at the logging camp situated between Pawtuxet and Galilee. After I saw that B.T.S. sold a kit for such a but of rolling stock for their McCabe Lumber Company set of structures and cars, I decided I wanted one for my logging railroad, but it was available only in HO I created one in what must be the easiest kitbshing job ever: The tenders of my two Bachmann 2-4-0 locomotives each came with an oil tank, which could one could use either in place of coal or lumber. Since one 2-4-0 burns coal and the other wood, I had two oil tanks sitting on a shelf, so after sanding off the filler pipe on one I glued them to one another, after which I glued them to a Bachmann flatcar. Whereas the B.T.S. version places the holder for the oil barrels so that their ends parallel the sides of the car, my version rotates them 90 degrees because the flatcar was too short. I created the oil barrel rack from several pieces of scrap 1/16" styrene, glued it in place, added a ladder and painted it with a rattle can from Blick Art Supply. [Click on images to enlarge them.]
