Re: Phase "Zero" / St Charles Coal Cars (Part 2)

Posted by John Greenly on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Phase-I-1902-C-S-Coals-tp5260p5910.html

I've been very much enjoying seeing the progress of your excellent work on these coal cars.  I've been wanting to try one myself, but am a bit daunted by the many variations of details in these cars.

As it happens, I have an old Tomalco HOn3 kit for a D&RG 1903 gondola that I pulled out the other day, and as I look at it closely it appears that it might be quite a good starting point for a Phase 1 C&S car.  In particular the stakes, which I'm guessing were from Grandt,  have the C&S-style single U-bolt with backing plate attachment rather than a pocket as in later D&RGW cars.  This kit also has the full one-piece corner irons, both outside and inside pieces, and it looks as if the other detail parts should work fine for a C&S car too, except for the square washers under some bolts.  So now I need to get the relevant dimensions for the frame.

Are Derrell Poole's drawings for these cars still available somewhere?   From what you have noted, it sounds as if these are the authoritative source of information.

thanks in advance for any help you can give me with this.

Cheers,
John