I like it! Nice Looking train!
Have my trains from the 1870s, not looking into a later era.Harold, have you checked out Accurail's 36 foot Fowler outside braced boxcars? You would need narrow gauge trucks for HOm3; or, use the HO Andrews Trucks provided with the kit for 1/72nd like Doug Tagsold's type of narrow gauge.
There is no water to drink, the EBT had outside braced boxcars but they were steel.You can lead a horse to water; but...
I did not know that! I'd of figured that outside braced would have preceded double sheathed. Would this type of box car been used by the D&RGW or the RGS?
There is no water to drink, the EBT had outside braced boxcars but they were steel.
99.99% of narrow gauge boxcars in North America were double sheathed.
Harold
No one was building new narrow gauge equipment in the 1930s and 1940s in the US.My information from the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association shows diagrams of several Outside Braced Box Cars explaining that they where built in the 1930s and 1940s. The Colorado Narrow Gauge lines where certainly not dead in the 30s and 40s.
Ok, I can trace many of these big drops to known events. BUT what is the huge 200 mile drop in 1970? Is that the Alamosa to Durango track going away (abandon in 1967ish) and the Cumbres & Toltec didn't buy it all up ?The railroads left after 1900 were mainly extensions of bigger companies and couldn't be abandoned easily due to laws or had a single material extraction business model that made high cost "break gauge" unnecessary.
But you post in this thread.O.K. I am sorry Harold, I don't specifically follow your posts. It might be somewhat presumptuous to think that people follow someone else's posts, when we all sort of are into our own thoughts. I knew you where interested in Narrow Gauge; but, the specifics of your interest, really didn't matter much to me, as they are YOUR interests and not mine!