Thanks Ken, this is invaluable information!
The N scale cars don't look like a USRA design but of course I could be
mistaken. Your information confirms that indeed these are pre WW-I built
cars and that the road numbers are valid. Is it likely that some made it
into the 50's as MOW cars? (See Mike Spoor's book "CB&Q Color Guide to
Freight and Passenger Equipment"(page 119) showing a CB&Q MOW fish belly
flat (RN 214156) that looks exactly like the Red Caboose cars).
Also, where can I find the details you came up with?
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Martin [mailto:kmartin@c...]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 6:24 PM
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] 42'10" Fishbelly Flat Cars
Dan Almosnino wrote:
>
>
> Red Caboose came up with 42' 10" CB&Q fish-belly flats (N Scale) in 6
> road numbers starting with 900xx:
>
90000-90499 Class FM-7 built by AC&F in 1909 & 1910. Length over end
sills 40'6" with steel fish-belly. There were 362 in 1940 and only 67 in
1945.
Several years ago Red Caboose brought in some USRA design flats (that
were never built) in HO and lettered them CB&Q 90xxx. I suspect that is
what they did here.
Ken Martin
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