On Oct 14, 2021, at 8:25 PM, Douglas Harding <iowacentralrr@...> wrote:



Richard Hendrickson covered modeling the 50’ PK2 car in the following articles.

http://magazine.trainlife.com/rmj_1996_3/ p50

http://magazine.trainlife.com/rmj_1996_9/ p48

 

He put Eastern Car Works National Type B-1s under his CBQ car.

 

Doug Harding

www.iowacentralrr.org

 

From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Clark Propst via groups.io
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2021 6:49 PM
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: [RealSTMFC] CB&Q 50' box car help

 

At a train show last Sunday I picked up a P2K kit of a CB&Q 50’ DD box car for $6. I usually have a RMJ or RP Cyc article of a car I’m modeling, but not this time (unless I missed something?). I cruised through the underframe assemble, but hit a wall on the trucks. Are the kit supplied trucks correct? Maybe or ASF A-3s? I've come to believ 'most' of the stuff in these kits is correct. But the trucks and other parts I'm about to mention are pretty much generic in my opinion. I looked at the B end parts on the sprue. There’s a crude Ajax hand wheel with a gear box that’s (to the best of my knowledge) not Ajax. Is Ajax correct? Is the wood running board correct. Guess that’s what I need to know to finish it?
Clark