The Last Train West (Rust Heavy Pics)

[snitcythedog]

Very cool and imaginative build.  I really like how you modified the engine. 

[mikos khan]

Great work as always.  I really like the "cockpit" you put on top of the locomotive engine.  Where did you get it?  Also all the various bits (tires, barrels, tarps etc) on the side of the engine are a nice touch.  I especially like the weathering & grafitti on the box cars - it reminds me of my last Amtrak adventure! 

[KD47]

The cockpit was the top part of the caboose in the last picture.   Lopped it off and welded it onto the engine for a different "Metro Exodus" looking train.

[Karadek]

Man, that looks good. Your rust and graffiti work is excellent.

[commissarmoody]

Very well done.

[eilif]

The caboose copula on steam engine is one of the most brilliant train mods I've ever seen.  Knocks the whole model into a slightly more modern setting, while giving it a weird windowed look that knocks it out of our timeline.  I may have to steal that.

[KD47]

Steal Away!

[Bullshott]

Lovely work. Very Metro 

[Daeothar]

Grimy, rusty, tattered, lovely, and not necessarily in that order either 

[leadfool]

Looks really great!

[shadowbeast]

It doesn't look like it was supposed to move?

[Mr. White]

This is fantastic!
Shame I hadn't seen this thread before now.

As I'm doing my post-apoc in 1:72...any idea what scale that's close to for trains? HO? OO?

[leadfool]

HO is 1:87  O scale is 1:48.  S scale which is hard to find is 1:64.  In the UK there is supposedly a OO scale that is 1:76. 

[Ultravanillasmurf]

As I'm doing my post-apoc in 1:72...any idea what scale that's close to for trains? HO? OO?

HO is 1:87  O scale is 1:48.  S scale which is hard to find is 1:64.  In the UK there is supposedly a OO scale that is 1:76. 

There is no supposedly in it, the default scale for UK model trains is 4mm to the floor (1/76) running on 16.5mm gauge track (yes HO gauge so just over four foot gauge - in scale for the Clockwork Orange but not much else).
https://www.hattons.co.uk/stocklist/1000588/oo_gauge_1_76_scale/productsbyscale
Note for non UK readers, model railways in the UK are X Gauge, not scale (so OO gauge, N Gauge) as it is the track that is key - our nine millimetre gauge trains are 1/148 scale.
One reason is we have multiple gauges for the same scale, so if you talked about OO scale, that could be OO gauge, EM gauge (18mm gauge) or proto(Scale)Four (18.83mm).

In answer to Leadfoot's question, HO/OO will probably be the answer, depending on what look you are after.
HO/OO track is readily available, cheap plastic toy track or second hand metal and plastic should be cheap.
Dapol inherited the Kitmaster/Airfix kit range and in the UK you can probably pick some up cheap but they are UK prototypes, so it depends on what you want.

[eilif]

This is fantastic!
Shame I hadn't seen this thread before now.

As I'm doing my post-apoc in 1:72...any idea what scale that's close to for trains? HO? OO?

As had been said, OO is near perfect but almost more important to the choice of trains is the type of train you have in mind, setting and size of table you'll be working with.  Maybe it works be best to start a new topic, but what does your project look like?