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 Posted - January 05 2011 : 9:52:10 PM
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This interesting and uncommon car is a haunt find from a couple weeks ago.
It's a 40' (approx., it may be slightly shorter) depressed-center HD flat car. It is very obviously craftsman constructed - and very nicely at that - but seems so odd. I can't tell if the decking and ribs are extremely thin balsa - or paper! The stirrups are brass, the knuckles and draft-gear boxes appear to be Varney, and the trucks are vintage sprung but unknown to me.
There's enough careful uniformity in the design/construction to make me think "kit", and yet enough rough edges to make me suspect "scratchbuilt".
So... does anyone recognize the car either as a vintage kit, or even from the real prototype on which it's based?
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Posted - January 06 2011 : 6:32:44 PM
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| That's pretty tough looking...I likes it much. It looks like it came from a MR article from the 70s that I recently thumbed through.
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