Anthony,
Congratulations on the fine looking Christmas additions to your
Q stables. They are making some nice equipment in N-scale these
days. While they may not perfectly represent specific CB&Q
classes, they do a very nice job of capturing the essence
of cars used on the Q up to the BN merger and beyond.
In a message dated 12/30/2013 10:42:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
anunziata1776@hotmail.com writes:
I'm not too concerned with the road numbers on an N scale model or any
scale really. I can barely see them anyway on the N scale. What I am
concerned with is years they ran and looks of the cars matching real
ones.
Sent from my iPad
Anthony
I regret to advise
you that these are not exactly accurate CB&Q models. The number 48383
on the box car was last used between 1933 and 1940 on a rebuilt XA-6 auto
box car. Maybe change the number to 48583 which was allocated to a XA-15B
(it looked similar) between 1941 and 1970, and into the BN era.
The
gondola car E3141 looks like the Bachman 42’ model. The Burlington
didn’t use letters before road numbers and I can’t think of any CB&Q
steel gondolas that were similar to the model. I bought this same model
about 35 years ago when I started collecting Burlington equipment. I ended
up repainting it orange as MoW equipment, representing a foreign car that
was rebuilt after being written off in a wreck.
But it is your
train on your layout so if they look good to you, that is the only
criteria.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
I attached two new N
scale Burlington cards I got for Christmas. I got a total of 22 cards
for Christmas, some O and N scale. It was a very nice Christmas for
me.
Can anyone tell me what years these would have been ran?
Which year they would have been last
seen?
Thanks,
Anthony
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