I haven't scoped out the construction details of the Red Caboose car yet,
but it is not a Red Caboose copy of their HO car..... the tooling was
started by Bob Beyers before he sold the Precision Masters line to Red
Caboose. Red Caboose finished the tooling (mostly making an underframe for
the flat) and may have cleaned up some details (I have some of the raw
bodies that Precision offered right before the end but haven't had a chance
to compare them).
Since it is a flat car there are less places for detail, so I suspect that
the car will be close enough for my purposes (providing some variety in the
interchange fleet).
Charlie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Martin [mailto:kmartin@c...]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 8:24 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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