There are side views of this car on Speedwitchs website in Ted's Kitbashing presentation in the download section. Neat looking car. Interesting feature is what appears to be a patch panel on the

Hubert, Is there an available plastic or resin kit to put these on? Thanks Scott McDonald

To our Great Northern experts here I was wondering if you have any background or history on this car featured in the slide? It is an interesting looking car. It appears to have the same roof as N&W

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Oh how we miss Bill Welch and his FGE research. I certainly hope those whom he entrusted his files to will complete the challenge and publish his opus. We can begin to sift some things. The

I'm going to stick with my original view. I enlarged the photo considerably and I see a line below each of the horizontal rivet rows that seems to be the bottom of the steel sheet. The vertical lines

A nice early steel gondola built for the LS&MS in 1905 by PSC, their lot LS-86; renumbered c. 1916 in the NYC329xxx series Roger Hinman

I agree that they are sometimes not as sharp, but on a weathered model I think they may look even a bit better than the hi-res ones. Variety and thickness are plusses -- great to

I don’t think those are horizontal sheets, just horizontal lines. Note the vertical rows of rivets, and the lack of an edge horizontally that would be there if they were horizontal sheets. David

The “board” looks to be welded at the bottom and isn’t wood (or maybe it was sufficient to rivet it at the top edge only). Potato loading? David Soderblom Baltimore MD david.soderblom@... --

 Hi List Members, I forgot to add in, you can see this image in native resolution at the link below...

Judging by the possible hinges at the A end for the full end door this is a GN42900-42999 series car. Staffan Ehnbom

 Hi Bob and List Members, I do note the letter "O" to the left of the road number. Also, the presence of the heap shield on the end construction made me think C&O. So I looked a little more,

Car is C&O 13133, a gondola they picked up secondhand from River Coal Co. in 1909. The peaked ends are original, and quite uncommon for a car built in 1905. David Thompson

Bob Chaparro wrote: "Photo: NYC Gondola 329127 (1920) Photo from the Milwaukee Public Library: https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/HstoricPho/id/4833/rec/30  You previously posted this on

 Hi Bob and List Members, I have this image on my computer hard disk, along with some extra info. This makes me think we may have discussed this image before. Here is what I have... NYC 329127

 Hi Bob and List members, GN had 50ft Howe truss design auto boxcars, and also had 50ft Pratt truss design auto boxcars. This is an example of the Pratt truss design Claus Schlund

 Hi Richard and List Members, Also note the 5-5-4 ends. The three horizontal sheets appear to more or less line up with the end seams... Claus Schlund

What caught my eye was the use of three horizontal sheets for the sides. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

Photo: Great Northern Single Sheathed Boxcar (Undated) Photo from the Milwaukee Public Library: https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/MilwWaterwa/id/1026/rec/84 Use arrows and scroll on photo