Re: Another Athearn 40' Flat Prototype [Was Rutland flatcar with trailer load]
Eric Hansmann
No. I have no plans. Attached are a couple pages from a March 1924 NYC freight car diagram book documenting these flat cars. General drawing numbers are listed for a few. Roger Hinman covered these in his NYC steel flat car presentation at one of the recent RPM Chicagoland events.
I started modifying a Tichy flat car to follow the NYC cars. I haven’t gotten around to creating the fishbelly sidesill in styrene. Ryan Mendell was selling resin fishbelly side sills at the recent RPM Chicagoland. These are intended to modify the Tichy boom car kits. I picked up a set as they might work for these NYC flat cars. Just need to add more stake pockets. https://nationalscalecar.com/product/mk103-fish-belly-side-sills-for-tichy-boom-car/
Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN
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Eric do you have plans?
Greg Martin
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-------- Original message -------- From: Eric Hansmann <eric@...> Date: 1/13/20 6:08 AM (GMT-06:00) Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Another Athearn 40' Flat Prototype [Was Rutland flatcar with trailer load]
The sidesills on those flats are slightly different. The sidesills on the GT car are deeper than those on the Rutland car. This also affects the angles of the fishbelly appearance.
Eric Hansmann
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