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Very cool, and the MT trucks just may work. My only question is the shallowness of the doors; heavyweights of the era had pretty thick sides. That's something that's bothering me about the MT headend cars anyway, and adding an overlay just accentuates the shallow look. My 2 cents...Otherwise, very cool.Otto K.
John,Awesomeness as always!Now that we have two horse cars to choose from, you may want to see what it'd take to make the WoT horse car more Pennsy-fied.That said I'm left a bit confused by all the hub-bub around the horse cars. They weren't nearly as common on head-ends of Pennsy trains to the extent that express X29s and R50bs were. Awesome that we can now approximate them in N, but these are on my "too rare to care" list. YMMV.
What do you think @jmlaboda ?
Only reason I chose the B74b, was because the B74a isn't even close as an MT starting point.
@Cajonpassfan , I see your point, and one could continue to shave away material from the opening to lower them in the recess further but you run the risk of damaging the sides top and bottom of the opening. This is about as thin as I can have etches made without having them turn into aluminum foil.
I'm left a bit confused by all the hub-bub around the horse cars
As it happens, I was just looking up a factoid in Frank Ellington's book on ATSF Head End Cars, and in front of me is a photo of a Grand Canyon train at Cajon Pass- 3 Horse cars, fluted baggage, Budd chair car, PS chair car, HW diner, HW lounge, HW sleeper, 2 lightweight sleepers. The whole thing behind ABA Erie Builts. 1954.How do you NOT model that? And if you are a purist, there must be a photo of a PRR equivalent. Probably has a scenery car thrown in for good measure.
So John; When are you going to sell a mod kit with all the goodies for the rest of us SPF's to roll our own B74B's. I got get that Pennsy fix you know it highly addicting.................