Tom,
With the help of Jack Troxell and his milling machine, we chucked a
couple of the metal flats and milled off the deck. I didn't go so far
as to remove all of it but I was able to overlay NE wood to make a very
nice deck. I have plans on doing one more where I will do exactly
that. At that point the fishbelly underframe can be removed rather
easily. There is a photo of a Milwaukee Road flat with a load of farm
machinery setting on a siding. The deck was rotten and part of the
machinery dropped through the deck--a great thing to model IMHO.
Maybe Pieter or someone else (who enjoys being a bit more of the
prototypical) can back this up, but I think it does need a fishbelly
however. If it had a cast underframe,Evergreen strips could be used as
a replacement rather easily.
Bob Werre
BobWphoto.com
>
>
>
> Well, the Flyonel USRA Mike and possibly the relatively recent
> Challenger could be candidates for conversion to scale, but Lionel
> will have none of it. Like Jace, I have some old Flyer flatcars, two
> cast metal, two plastic. No problem to convert the plastic, but how do
> I grind down that ridiculous underbody nonsense of the cast metal cars?
>
> Tom
>
>
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