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

["William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>]

Jim,

That is great model work. It also gives a good idea what modeling the 
covers look like.
Bill Hirt

On 2/27/2021 8:44 PM, James Sandrin wrote:
> The 21st Edition of the Car Builder's Cyclopedia (1961) has photos and 
> drawings of the Stanray gondola roof (pgs. 204 and 384), which was the 
> pattern for the Athearn covered gondola roof.  As was standard for the 
> time, Athearn modified it to fit their 50-ft car, which required 
> splicing two of them to fit a correct length car, The car in the 
> photos, 83507, was built from a Modeler's Choice laser-kit, the roof 
> was scratch-built from styrene based on all sorts of photos on the RR 
> Archives site courtesy of Chuck Zieler.  The 83379 was kit-bashed from 
> a MDC railgon kit, ironically under the tutoring of Ed DeRouin, with 
> the roof made from two Athearn gondola roofs.  Hope this is of value!  
> Jim Sandrin

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