I already have three of these on order. If it comes down to scratchbuilt roofs and then creating some mods and cases, ill be happy to do it!! 😊
Chris
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-------- Original message -------- From: William Hirt <whirt@fastmail.com> Date: 2/27/21 7:23 AM (GMT-08:00) To: CBQ@groups.io Subject: Re: [CBQ] Scaletrains.com HO CB&Q Havelock 52' 6" Gondola
There was a substantial discussion on the Modern Freight Car List
about these cars when they were announced. There were three sets
of these cars - Classes GM-6 (built 1965), GM-6A (built 1967),
and GM-6B (built 1967). As was pointed out by Jim Eager on the
MFCL, the main differences are the number and location of grab
irons. And a number of people on the MFCL list pointed out the
lack of roofs. Since they all had three piece roofs when delivered
and throughout their short CB&Q only lives, the roofs are
essential for a proper model. Based on photo evidence, the roofs
were not removed on even a few cars until the late 1970s in the BN
era.
There were also two errors in the lettering on the car
ScaleTrains had as their demo picture. One was the build date was
listed as 1957, not 1967. The second was the Burlington Route
herald plate was incorrectly placed on the car side (not properly
lined up with the billboard Burlington lettering). ScaleTrains
replied to those of us who pointed out the error and said both
issues will be fixed on the production kits.
Bill Hirt
On 2/27/2021 7:59 AM, Tom Mack via
groups.io wrote:
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.
--
Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH
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