Dear Pieter
I don't want to run this topic into the ground, but I am not talking about some 
of the steam-era, post-1920, say, M/L kits but specifically
about the truss rod, ca. 1900 and earlier, ones.  So far as I can tell, they 
work, even if they are not exceptional.  Each of us pays his money
and takes his choice as to what he can live with.
All the examples you cite are for manufacturers of later prototypes.  I have 
always had some reservations about the M/L 50' auto car and perhaps even the 
36' stock car is a bit wide (speaking only about those in HO and O scale I have 
built--I have no experience with them in S scale, if in fact they were ever 
offered there), but those are the ones to be compared with Kinsman and 
Northeastern and all the others.

Jace Kahn

General Manager 
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.



 
> I've found many of them too tall and or wide for the prototype. They could be 
> cut down, since they are kits. Kinsman was the Gold Standard in wood kits for 
> S, along with Wisconsin Central, Amity Star and a few others.
> 
> Rems Models still has their website. They offer a variety of somewhat generic 
> wood cars in laser cut format. I haven't built one to comment on the quality.
> 
> http://www.remsmodels.com/SKits.html
> 
> Pieter E. Roos

                                          

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