Wheels of Time Blog
Monday
Dec052022

Inspiring photos from our customers & our custom-built projects plus sneak preview!

Happy Advent Season! Here are a whole bunch of photos to highlight, inspire and showcases some of our customers' Wheels of Time rolling stock & vehicles with their unique modifications - and as well as some of our custom-built projects for our clients - plus a sneak preview of WOT new railroad cars. Enjoy!
Bob Fallowfield's CP Rail Flatcar Bpb's CP Rail flatcarWOT custom-built HD21 Sideboom tractors

We have one set of HO scale sideboom parts (no crawler body) available. Email matt@wheelsotime.com if interested.


WOT custom-built SP 66-B-1N scale SP 66-B-1 "Economy baggage car" kits are limited in-stock. These are not stand-in models. They are going quickly.  Go here for details.

WOT custom-built Sea-Land "original" schemeWOT custom-built Sea-Land Billboard schemeHO scale 35-ft Sea-Land kits are limited in-stock. Go here for HO Sea-Land.
N scale 35-ft Sea-Land kits are limited in-stock. Go here for N scale Sea-Land.

WOT custom-built MOW trucksHO scale Work trucks (as above) pre-built {assembled, painted, windshield installed} are limited in-stockGo here for details. 

N scale Maintenance-of-Way truck kit (one with the crane) are limited in-stock. Go here for details.

Painting up SP Chair Cars

We are painting up the car for Bruce. Bruce applied the finished touches including decaling. Nice job!
Bruce Carson's SP Chair CarWOT WP bulkhead flatcar shown @ BAMP. The modeler added the bulkheads (sorry :( my notes is missing the name!)

Mike Whalen's California Div of Forestry dozer from WOT HD-21 kit

Mike told me he used to work for the Calif. Div. of Forestry and always wanted to modeled one of these HD-21. Notice the patch in front of dozer blade much as like the real thing.


Mike's HD-21More of Mike's HD-21Timothy Hartfield's HO GBEC SP Bulkhead with lumber load.

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Sneak previews! 

Here is a N scale 1949 Pullman-Std Lot 6806 Plan 7580 lounge car. SP assigned these Class 83-L-1 on the SF Overland, Golden State, City and Del Monte. Later they were assigned to Amtrak & SP Officers Specials. Details include proper A/C, Propane, Battery Boxes placements and with full interior. Car will ride on 41-N trucks. More details coming.

WOT SP 83-L-1WOT SP 83-L-1 interior

Quick snap shot of a WOT prototype.Here is a rough prototype of our SP XMUG (yellow stripe) box car which we are working on. More details coming!

Thanks for looking!

Saturday
Sep032022

Photos of the day!

Enjoy and have a happy Labor Day weekend!ACE double powerNo. 11 around the corner.Frozen in time and space.

Friday
Aug052022

Summer Special! On sale!

We have a summer special for this month only! ACF Straight Tapered Bulkheads, Piggy-Packers, PC&F Boxcars, and more!
Interested in our HO Sea-Land 35-ft container + chassis, but are not sure if you want to paint and assemble it yourself? We have painted + assembled ones ready to go!  Let us know too! 

All sales final. First come, first serve.    https://www.wheelsotime.com/summer-specials/

Monday
Jun132022

BAPM 2022! This Saturday!

Come join the fun at the Bay Area Prototype Modelers (BAPM) this Saturday and drop by our table.

Wheels of Time will have new & old stock in HO and N scales - N Piggy-Packers, HO SP Bulkheads & Plain Deck Flatcars, N Bi-levels commute coaches, HO C50 trucks and more!

This Sat. June 18, 2022 from 9 am to 5 pm
871 Sonoma St., Richmond, CA

http://www.bayareaprototypemodelers.org/

Thursday
Apr072022

Wheels of Time April Announcement!

Wheels of Time is excited to announce our N scale 53-ft 6-in Welded Fish Belly Flatcars! Roads include Boston & Maine, Burlington Northern, Canadian National, Conrail, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, Western Maryland, Western Pacific. Authentically detailed, proper ride height with body mounted couplers, smooth rolling metal 33-in wheels, extra sharp paint & lettering, steel sub-deck perfect for securing loads with a magnet. Taking Pre-Orders now. Pre-orders due May 6, 2022. ETA Spring 2023. Learn more.