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Schuyler Larrabee
The exchange about “hacking” included (from Ben) a reference to Front Range cars. I’ve had four FR kits kicking around here for a long time. Three No. 5000, 50’ ACF cars, and one ACF 3 Bay Grain Car. It’s a ~50’ long car.
Someday I will maybe do something with the box cars (if I can find an early version of them) but the grain car is of no use to me. Is somebody here interested in acquiring it?
BTW, does anybody have some nominations for “early” versions of the No. 5000 kits? When did ACF introduce these cars?
Schuyler
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Ed Hawkins
On Aug 8, 2015, at 9:27 PM, 'Schuyler Larrabee'
schuyler.larrabee@verizon.net [STMFC] wrote: BTW, does anybody have some nominations for “early” versions of theSchuyler, The version of the Improved Dreadnaught ends of the Front Range Products 5000 model represent prototype 50'-6" box cars built in 1955 or later. The model came with 8' door openings, 16-panel welded sides, and a diagonal panel roof. I believe the model could be obtained only with a fish-belly side sill, however, I'm not aware of any prototype cars of the FRP 5000 model that were built this way. Please advise if FRP offered the 50'-6" welded-side car with a "notched/tabbed" side sills. I really don't like using the "notched" or "tabbed" term to describe the side sill, but I'm not aware of a proper terminology. In the Oct. 1992 Railmodel Journal I wrote an article about ACF 50' box cars of this general type with either 8' or 9' door openings. The following series of cars can be accurately modeled if the fish-belly side sills are modified using the general dimensions outlined in the article. C&EI 3760-3784, 3800-3874 (100 cars, ACF lot 4457, built 4-55) D&RGW 64000-64099 (100 cars, ACF lot 4693, built 8-56) M-K-T 90151-90200 (150 cars, ACF lot 4724, built 10-56) MP 81000-81099 (100 cars, ACF lot 5379, built 12-59) RI 30500-30699 (200 cars, ACF lot 4554, built 12-55) Regards, Ed Hawkins
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I've got one of the D&RGW cars under construction on my workbench. Beautiful
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gold & silver cars. I've decided to remove the floor and replace it with the vastly superior Accurail underframe -- which happened to be designed to fit the old Front Range bodies. Tim O'Connor
In the Oct. 1992 Railmodel Journal I wrote an article about ACF 50' box cars of this
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Greg Martin
The ACCURAIL 5200 and the Front Range 5200 are very similar cars. The
difference being one has a removable underframe the other the roof.
The difficulty is the ends being the slender tapered Dreadnaught end, at
least fro our era here. But as Ed Hawkins pointed out there are some
prototypes. I own both the ACCURAIL version and the Front Range version
and unless I am willing to compromise on the ends I will be replacing them. OR
model in the baby-boom era and I am not opposed to that.
Greg Martin
Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through
it. Norman Maclean Tim writes:
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