Hi Eric,

Do you have an item number for the Bethlehem Car Works underframe?
Even if it isn't listed on the current site, that might help to track
them down. Is it a part designed to fit the MDC/Roundhouse cars, or
more generic?

Thanks,
Mark Heiden


--- In STMFC@yahoogroups.com, "rwitt_2000" <rmwitt@i...> wrote:

Eric Hansmann" <ehansmann@a...> wrote:

Mark,

The Western Maryland had some similar DS boxcars, and I have a

few

on the program to build for my circa 1926 HO scale layout. I have
builders images of the WM and BR&P cars I bought from Keith
Retterer. They have several similarities, including the IL and

the

fishbelly underframe. I was looking at a quick and dirty

conversion

using MDC/Roundhouse old time boxcars and substituting a

Bethlehem

Car Works fishbelly underframe. Here's their website, but this

part

is not listed:
http://www.bethlehemcarworks.com/

After test fitting the underframe and examining the prototype
photos, I may just scratchbuild the box to fit the frame. This

would

follow the prototype as it seems the box structure sits on top of
the sills instead of overlapping them. I still need to compare
height to the running boards on this project, but there are a few
more things to finish up before I progress on these cars.

The underframes are $5 each. You may want to pick up one or two

and

see how you want to approach modeling these cars. These comments

and

materials are for HO scale models.