Guys,
If I remember correctly, ACE had a conversion bolster for the AF gondola as
well. For those cars, however, I prefer the box car bolster or hopper bolster
which fits nicely after I have ground down that ridiculous plastic underbody.
At the moment I have kitbashed a CGW 50' gon out of two AF gon bodies. It's
nearing completion. I say it's the last AF conversion I'll do, but then I'll
see article, such as the MR feature some years back, where the author talked
about converting TYCO gons into more prototypical specimens. So perhaps I'll
"adjust" a few more AF gons. I've long thought that the AF gon was the most
workable AF freight car.
Tom
Hi Jace,
Ace had conversion bolsters for the flat and gondola. I've used both, but
prefer to mill or cut off the AF truck mount and use a flat Ace metal bolster
because the Ace flatcar conversions make the car sit too high above the trucks.
I can use a dremel tool to mill the plastic cars, the cast metal flat is
tougher and may require either a machine shop or using the Ace conversion.
Pieter E. Roos
--- On Sun, 1/23/11, JGG KahnSr <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Yes, that is what got me started on this topic: I bought
> three conversion floors which seemed to be based on the Rex
> gondola but
> also had the typical Ace #5 mounting surface. But
> they are good, heavy, zamac, as are all the other Ace
> bolsters I've acquired so far
> to convert AF cars.
> The catalogue sheets some kind soul scanned for me list
> quite a few Ace parts, with many of the urethane castings
> you note; I'd guess
> the owner of Ace at the time (Russ Downs?) was in
> transition between the original zamac line and more recent
> resin production. When
> everything started back in the 1950's, there was no good
> alternative to zamac and the expense of cutting dies for the
> castings, but as
> small-production became possible with epoxy/resin/urethane,
> it permitted developing new items without a major financial
> commitment
> (and perhaps to replace the zamac dies as they wore out).
>
> Jace Kahn
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> General Manager
> Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
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> > Ace had conversion bolsters for pretty much every
> possibility of A F freight
> > car IIRC. There was even a conversion floor made for
> the boxcars. The
> > bolsters were urethane & made converting the AF
> cars to scale very easy when
> > used with the Ace trucks. They were set up to body
> mount Kadee #5 but I did
> > fit 802 on them. I have not heard yet if the new owner
> plans on continuing
> > those parts.
> > Bill Lane
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