I have only a couple Amity Star kits, an AAR stock car bought early in my S scale days fromDon Heimburger, which does not seem necessarily to be a re-run of the Northeastern kit,and a ventilated boxcar that is designedly a tribute to the Northeastern kit (with some modifications--mostly the Amity kit reprints the Northeastern instruction sheet). So I just don't know how accuratethe other kits are.
Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > From: [email protected] > 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. > > 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
