FTs (prototype and model)

[princessclyne69]

I have a set of Stewart FTA and FTB, which are drawbarred. The set is also numbered 510 and 510B, which had regular couplers at both ends.

I’m probably going to renumber the set to one of the first four sets that did come with drawbar, but I’m trying to track down whether these were ever broken up. There could have been a Yahoo post about this years ago, but I don’t have access to the MoPac Yahoo group.

Units that were intended to be drawbar connected had no steps or grab irons at the drawbar connected ends, so I don’t know how they would have been equipped if they actually had been separated. I believe some other owners did.

I have no photos showing the first four sets in their later years, although I do have some of the last eight which show them getting typical modernizations like more grabs, and of course mixed and matched with other units.

Biggest question I have, then, is whether these first sets actually did or did not get broken up with couplers replacing the drawbars.

RG7

[princessclyne69]

Some things are just too good to be true, or maybe some things are just so obvious.

Once I got a good look at this model, it turned out to be the version that was built with couplers after all, complete with EMD corner steps and the correct truck setback. So my problems have devolved into only some very simple issues of adding some detail.

The gray color is still very dark, but that’s another subject.

RG7

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