All my models are in storage so I can't look at the 2 side by side. The roof with riveted seem caps should look slightly different than a roof with rivet-free seem caps.
Ed
--- In STMFC@..., timboconnor@... wrote:
The old IMWX, now Red Caboose, 40 foot rectangular panel roof is the best one ever done by anybody in HO scale. Why indeed would anyone want to replace it with an inferior version? ( And ALL others are inferior, plastic or resin or brass. ) &
"benjaminfrank_hom" <b.hom@...> wrote
Why bother? The Tichy roof is markedly inferior; in fact, Ted
Culotta
replaced the one on his PMcK&Y/P&LE rebuilt USRA SS boxcar model
with
a Red Caboose roof. See the July 2004 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman.