I can't talk about the specifics of this Amity Star kit, but I've found the
drawings for some of their other kits to be to scale, which helps a lot with
scratchbuilding.
cheers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Baker" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 10:45 AM
Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Re: WABASH Composite boxcar
> Bob,
>
> The Wabash car depicted is interesting. The kit offered back in the day
> by Amity Star comes close, but it has the ubiquitous peaked roof. Its
> Z-ribs seem to me to be too large, but that could easily be fixed perhaps
> with plastic Z-ribs produced by Plastistruc. The radial roof is more of a
> problem, but could be replaced with Northeastern shallow-round caboose
> roof stock. True enough: Northeastern no longer offers it, but a few
> modelers out there might have some to spare. I have a modest stash of
> radial roof stock but hardly enough for even five or ten kits.
>
> Anyway, do you think the Amity Star kit might be a starting point? On the
> other hand, if one makes all the changes to that kit I suggested, one
> might as well start from scratch and use Evergreen styrene in the first
> place. The remaining problem is the ends: One might obtain--if they are
> obtainable--former PRS goofs and reconfigure the ends so that one had the
> necessary 3-3-3 pattern. That pattern has many other useful applications
> other than the Wabash model.
>
> By the way: The car looks forlorn out there. Is the track connected to a
> branch line or just isolated, the car permanently situated?
>
> Tom
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