Sounds good.
But when was the origianl business car put into service?
I fear not in the 40s.
Florian
>
> I just received the new Kato HO Business Car lettered for CB&Q. It is a
> beauty! They did a wonderful job with the car. It has an Interior, nice
> Burlington Route tail sign, lighted tail light and marker lights (markers
> show red to rear and green to front - looks neat when you turn out the
> lights in the room!). You have to add some details - doesn't take too
long
> but adding the grab irons takes a little patience. Kato has an ingenious
> way to allow the trucks to handle tight (18" radius) curves by making it
> possible to remove part of the top of the truck frames. As the car comes,
> it looks like it will handle fairly decent curves anyway.
>
> I am sure they will sell well in all the roadnames they have done the car
> in, but since the car is actually a Q car, we HO Burlington modelers
really
> have to thank Kato. It will fit in perfectly with brass cars - at the end
> of a train of finished brass cars, you won't be able to tell this is
> plastic.
>
> Thought List readers would be interested. And I am not affiliated in any
> way with Kato.
>
> John Sauer
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