New Bluford Shops "Dented" Gondolas

[mu26aeh]

@Ed Kapuscinski , Conrail is right up top of the list

http://bluford-shops.com/bluford_93_009.htm

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Holy *****

[Missaberoad]

Just when I tell myself I'm not going to buy more rolling stock @Bluford Craig has to drop a bomb like this!

I will start saving my scheckles.

[seusscaboose]

NKP
 

[ai5629]

This is the second example of Bluford producing a car that Bachmann did first, the USRA two bay hopper being the first.  And I bought eight Bachmann 52’6” Greenville drop end gondolas that I was going to repaint into appropriate CR, EL and PC paint schemes.    I think I will stick with the CR and PC ones, but there is no need to do EL with these coming out.  Those Conrail cars are decorated as class GE51E and GE51F.  These will add some variety to my heavily dominated BLMA 52’6” ACF gondola roster.  Thanks.

Jeff

[nickelplate759]

NKP
 

Oh...oh....oh....

[thomasjmdavis]

Just when I tell myself I'm not going to buy more rolling stock @Bluford Craig has to drop a bomb like this!

I will start saving my scheckles.

I've been hoping Bluford would get into the gondola business....hopefully, we'll see some Erie (as opposed to EL) before too much longer.  Or undecs.  But in the meanwhile, an NKP for sure (copy says built 49, but paint date looks like 51- correct?) and maybe a NYC (trying to read the paint date- 1954?).  since they went to the trouble to dent them, do the ends have dreadnought, etc. corrugation pattern on the inside as well as the outside?

[learmoia]

Well alright then...

[Bluford Craig]

I've been hoping Bluford would get into the gondola business....hopefully, we'll see some Erie (as opposed to EL) before too much longer.  Or undecs.  But in the meanwhile, an NKP for sure (copy says built 49, but paint date looks like 51- correct?) and maybe a NYC (trying to read the paint date- 1954?).  since they went to the trouble to dent them, do the ends have dreadnought, etc. corrugation pattern on the inside as well as the outside?

By coincidence, the Nickel Plate and New York Central cars have a 1949 built date and a re-weigh (not repainted) date of 1954. Not only do they have the end corrugation detail on the inside face as well, but the concave dents on the inside faces of the side sheets match the convex dents on the outside faces.
Craig
Bluford Shops

[Mark5]

Oh man! 

NKP and EL tempt me right away.

[lock4244]

A few CR for me. Maybe an EL, too.

[Philip H]

@Bluford Craig please tell me that The Rock and Frisco won't be your only southern-ish offerings . . . .

[Mark5]

According to this site: https://www.protocraft.com/category.cfm?Categoryid=49

The A.M.C. Design 70-ton Drop-End Mill 52’-6” Gondola were at a minimum rostered by:
CB&Q/C&S
DT&I
ERIE
NKP
NYC
P&LE and a different version for the NYC
Patapsco & Back River - and South Buffalo
PM
C&O - cars handed down from the PM with minor modifications
RI
SL-SF
WP

Were there others?

Mark

[Chris333]

I don't need these at all, but they are nice as eFffffffffff 

[daniel_leavitt2000]

By coincidence, the Nickel Plate and New York Central cars have a 1949 built date and a re-weigh (not repainted) date of 1954. Not only do they have the end corrugation detail on the inside face as well, but the concave dents on the inside faces of the side sheets match the convex dents on the outside faces.
Craig
Bluford Shops

Well that is 6 CR cars for me. Now I have to find a place to pre-order them. I haven't used a hobby shop since MBK closed.

Any chance the heavily dented cars would have bowed cords? This was common on older CR cars.