Paul: You will find that the AM car is quite similiar to a number of B&O cars. Classes W-7 to W-10 were built at various times from 1947 to 1964. All are close to the AM in general appearance although details vary some and the 1964 built W-10 cars are slightly larger. The B&O lettering that AM offers is not bad but it unfortunately has the style where the ampersand (& sign) in the large lettering is the same height as the letters B O. This style was only used by the B&O for a very short time and on the great majority of cars the ampersand used with the large B&O lettering was about 2/3 the height of the letters. Even most decal sets have this uncommon style for some reason.
The AM quad hoppers are also useable as B&O cars. The outside ribbed car can be used to make B&O class W-1b cars while the offset side quad cars make up a reasonable class W-2 and W-2a cars. Using these cars along with the AM twin offset side hopper and the S Helper USRA hopper gives an excellent representation of B&O coal trains from the 40's until the 60's. The W1 & W2 cars were gone by the end of the 60's. The triple hoppers lasted into the late 70's with a few of the 1964 cars even making it into the early 80's. Bill O. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
