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Re: [BRHSlist] Walthers Budd Passenger Cars

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Walthers Budd Passenger Cars
From: "M. Thayer" <zephyr@k...>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:27:53 -0600
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Reply-to: "M. Thayer" <mthayer@k...>
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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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