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Here’s some detail shots from Gary Herron of a prototype car to help with modeling. Keith at Plano Model Products simplified the design of his PE set as the prototype car had the roof walks extending outside the carbody as the horizontal ‘L’ shape extended to support an additional support. Keith made his roof walk the same length of the car to ease construction.
The prototype car has 13 supports on each side and the PE set has 11; to add the additional 2 supports a modeler would have to remove the cast-on ‘L’ support on the model and substitute a brass ‘L’ shape and add the additional supports from another PE set. You’d also have to purchase the set made for the Atlas cylindrical hopper 6 bay cars to get the additional 6 inches of roof walk.
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