Hi John,
Contact me off list - I have some of the MDC truck sideframes.
Dave Lotz
dave_lotz@bellsouth.net
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Subject: [CBQ] Waycars
I have the AMB CB&Q wood waycar kits - 28' and 30'. I intend to build the
28' kit as a C&S waycar, using #10606 at the Colo RR Museum as a reference.
The Detail Associates AMB caboose detail kit - 229-550 - does that include
everything I need to detail these kits - such as brake gear, railings, brake
wheels, etc.? I am using the Kadee Bettendorf T trucks with leaf springs for
the C&S waycar. For the 30' waycar, AMB kits recommend the MDC wood beam
passenger trucks, but they appear to be no longer available. What is an
accurate and good running wood beam passenger truck that would be ideal for
this kit? I prefer metal wheels on all my rolling stock.
The cupolas of both kits have single side windows. #10606 has double
windows, but it also is painted in Chinese red, which is the paint scheme
adopted in 1958. I am modeling the late 1940s and early 1950s, for which I
assume the paint scheme was mineral red, using Microscale's 87-1217 decals.
Would this type of waycar have double or single windows during that period?
#10606 and similar waycars were built in 1944. I know that D&RGW changed the
number of windows in the cupola over the years and thought that CB&Q or C&S
might have done the same thing. I am not going to the trouble of building
double windows, if single windows would be appropriate for the period.
What would be a good source of photos for Q and C&S waycars in the late
1940s? Has the long-awaited Q Waycar book been published yet? I have a
number of CB&Q/C&S steam and diesel models and would like to have the other
end of the train look as good as the front. AMB recommends Dan Holbrook and
Steve Lorenz's "Waycars of the CB&Q." Is this book available anywhere?
BTW, I have been very interested in the posts on the 1958 Broomfield wreck,
as that probably led to my railfan interest in the C&S. I went to high
school with Hol Wagner, and he took me on many fan trips with C&S #638 and
the 1963 NRHS convention here.
- John Manion
Denver, CO
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