Hi Group. Many years ago, in HO, Ambroid made a wood kit of a steel coil car. It was one of their 1 of 5000 kind. I never did put it together, it was too many strips of shapeless wood. I would have had to turn them into a shape of some kind before I could put it together. The white metal castings were nice though. On a different note, there is a steel coil transshipment place in New Boston, Michigan. They get their loads of steel mostly in coil cars, although I have seen some regular gondolas with the coils braced by pieces of wood. The siding is some distance from the road, so my telephoto lens doesn't pick up much that is legible. The plant is switched mainly at night, but I'll try and get some pictures if I can. The semi-trucks they use to ship the steel out are interesting also. The trailers are the kind that seem to be all wheels, so they are carrying quite a lot of weight. Some are flat beds with the coils covered by a tarp, some are what I call gondola style - flat beds with small sideboards all around, enclosing the trailer. They have the rounded style tarp covering the entire trailer. The building is a simple steel frame with metal siding. If you take the Armco building offered by NASG, stack them 3 high, you would have about the right height. The real building is about 6 of the model long, about 6 wide, so it would be quite a model structure. Could be an interesting addition to a layout though. Along this stretch of CSX south of I-94/Romulus west of I-275, there is also a car/truck transshipment yard, with lots of auto racks and auto carrier trucks. The switching engines they use now are ex-IC geeps, with 4 exhaust stacks and those odd attachments at the air intakes. At least one is in IC Black. They used to use SW's. There is also a place that repairs rail cars, so there are lots of interesting cars in its siding. Lots of uses for those new products coming onto the scene in S, whenever they get here! Barry.
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