On Sep 15, 2005, at 7:48 PM, Chet French wrote:

The Wabash built 250 of the 41'-6" gons at the Decatur car shop in
1944. Car had wood sides and floors, and were numbered in the 13000-
13249 series. Andrews and ARA/AAR cast sideframe trucks, from older
gondolas being scrapped, were used on the cars. Some were equipped
with auto frame racks in the late 1940's. The T&NO also had some of
these cars also. F&C has this car in their kit line.

All true, Chet, and who should know better. However, the Wabash cars you're describing were war emergency composite gons, not the all steel "recommended practice" cars as built for the ACL by Bethlehem.

Richard Hendrickson