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To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Walthers Budd Passenger Cars
> I believe the Budd cars (at least the coach) is coming with full skirts.
> Drawings of the coach are in April Model Railroader and they refer to the
new
> Walthers car. One might hope that there could be indentations on the
> interior of the skirting to allow one to de-skirt the car.
>
For BR modelers, there would be two versions of deskirting. The first 3
CB&Q cars and the 1940 TZ cars would have stepped skirt openings to
accomodate the 3-K trucks with their in-rigged brake cylinders . . . that
would also require swapping vestibule ends and minor windowframe surgery to
be really accurate . . .
Marshall
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