[CBQ] Scaletrains.com HO CB&Q Havelock 52' 6" Gondola

["Tom Mack via groups.io" <thommack=yahoo.com@groups.io>]

I'm surprised nothing has been said about the Scaletrains.com announcement concerning their new CB&Q Havelock Shops 52' 6" gondola in HO:

https://www.scaletrains.com/product/kit-classics-ho-scale-cbq-havelock-shops-52-6-gondola-chicago-burlington-quincy-cbq-run-1/

I think pre-orders are due by tomorrow (Feb 28). 

The cars are a simple kit with molded on details. While it would have been nice to have a higher quality car, its a lot easier to add detail to a prototypically accurate lower quality car than build from scratch. I don't think we have has a Q specific prototype car produced in some time, so it is great to see that Scaletrains.com chose a CB&Q prototype for this gondola!

BTW, this is the same series of cars that was the topic of a September 1989 RailModel Journal article by Ed De Rouin and Jim Singer on taking an MDC/Roundhouse Railgon gondola and kitbashing it to a CB&Q GBR. So if you were still looking for an MDC kit and detail parts to do the kitbash, you now have an actual model to from Scaletrains.com to superdetail or run it as is.

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Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH

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