This particular car was simply a flat car (# 5000085 if I remember correctly)
owned by the NYC that had the Evans Auto-Loader rack installed on it. The
whole car was not a product of Evans... only the loader/rack system.
As for there being other roads that used this type or similar cars... I have
not turned up anything just yet... and to make things worse, the NYC car, to
the best of my knowledge, was a one-of-a-kind on the NYC roster.
HOWEVER... let us all not forget... this is S scale... where little to nothing
is prototypical and where the "base" (supporting) group are Flyer-philes and/or
hi-railers (where anything goes). Therefore a long (non-prototypical) string
of these would look right at home on a Flyer/hi-rail layout without any
complaints from us rivet-counters. So with that point in mind, as well as the
fact that there are currently no other auto-carriers of any kind currently
available in S scale, I strongly believe that these would sell very well. This
would be a first-of-its-kind model in S, and that alone would most likely bring
in the sales. SHS already makes a flat car of the EXACT SAME LENGTH of the NYC
car (53' 6"), therefore all we really need is the Evans rack itself to add to
the flat car, just the same way that the NYC did with their flat car.
Doin' my homework.
John Degnan
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Great work, John.
Were these owned by roads other than the NYC, eh, eh?
Andy Malette
www.mlwservices.ca
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