Wheels of Time Blog
Thursday
Jul102014

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Thursday
Jul102014

It's an extra large wrap

No, it's not something delicious to eat.  Instead here's Caltrain wrapped up in a colorful ad taken at South City.  The next photo is taken at Muni Metro East facility to what looks like an old yellow or GM motor coach adjacent to a 1950 era Marmon-Herrington trolley coach all wrapped up.

Wednesday
Jul092014

Classic N & W and BN units

More pre-production photos - classic N & W and Burlington Northern PC-90s. As you probably guessed it, most railroads begin equipping their piggy-back operations with piggy-packers to speed loading and unloading of trains. BN had a variety of logo design on their units. A photo of this BN one appeared in Jane's Freight Container book.

Tuesday
Jul082014

FWD Piggy-Packer

Here's a pre-production photo of our HO scale FWD Wagner Piggy-Packer. The strongman logo on the FWD units are different than the Raygo Wagner ones. FWD's are the earlier models.

Tuesday
Jul082014

CSX Piggy-Packer!

Here's a pre-production shot of our HO scale CSX Piggy-Packer. Noticed the logos on the left and right sides are different - just like the real thing!