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@Patrick wrote:
Were these cars’ existence unknown until now?
Pat
I doubt it, as you can tell they are in pretty plain sight in a wide open field. The car that always escaped me was an open end heavyweight observation car that was in MoW service sitting on a track in Herman, Missouri. It was getting dark so I didn’t take a photo. We drove back there about a month later and the car was gone. Never saw it since and always wondered what its former number was.
Quality Craft made an HO kit of these cars in 1970. They were wood with cast metal ends. Bill Herbert built one but substituted plastic for the wood shapes and may have written an article in the Eagle on his methods.
