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It looks like the second GSC car (40’) is still in black.
Oddly enough the Athearn 40’ pulpwood car was copied from a MoPac home built car but I’ve always suspected it is oversized so they could use their 40’ flatcar underframe. I also have another MoPac prototype in resin by Sunshine models from the era of homebuilt cars.
Mike Adams (At the time an assistant trainmaster) loved to tell how he and a crew dropped off an empty pulpwood rack somewhere in Arkansas to a public team track and two different loggers with fully loaded trucks faced off over who had ordered the car. Both were waiting and had ordered a 40’ car.
As the local headed back to Gurdon Mike wondered if they decided the standoff over fisticuffs or if tire irons Had to be used.
Jim Ogden
