What I'd be interested in a kit review is how thick the sides
are. It isn't really feasible to bash a West Shore M53 into an M15
(by notching the sill) because the sides are about a half inch
thick! If the styrene sides are, say .050 or so thick, that would
make the whole thing a lot easier.
I'm surprised that CSX doesn't feel that they own the rights to
the wagontop car itself, never mind the graphics. After all, the
wagontop is as much a symbol of the B&O as the dome herald.
Regards,
Phil Buchwald

--- In STMFC@..., Bruce Smith <smithbf@v...> wrote:

On Mar 16, 2005, at 10:05 AM, Jon Miller wrote:

Who did the decals?<

    According to the ad it's "undec, L/t&c".  The picture shows

a

decorated
car so not sure what they mean.  The ad does say "CSX licensed

decals

coming
soon".   Were these cars ever lettered CSX?

No, CSX thinks that they own the rights to "B&O"

    At $29.95 it's priced up there with all the good stuff, so

I

guess it
better compare.

Unfortunately, Cannonball's releases are highly variable. Their

GE

steeple cab electric was OK, but the last example of tooling I

bothered

with from them were the troop cars, and they were pretty

substandard.

The sleeper kits had large drift angles and very poor fit of

parts.

The rivets on the Troop Sleepers are the size of small

hamburgers.

Neither cars had representations of window sashes, and the

underbodies

were minimalistic. Walthers cars for roughly the same price blow

them

out of the water.

Regards
Bruce

Bruce F. Smith
Auburn, AL
http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/

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