Jmaie: The Wabash bought some of the Pennsy converted X32's. They were double deck stock cars for hogs. The Pennsy proper had both 40' and 50' versions, K9 and K9a. A couple prototype photos are in the old S/Sn3 Modeling Guide, April 1996 along with SMMW round roof Seaboard box car.
I always thought they were neat cars, made more so being built in the Pennsy shops in my home town, Fort Wayne. When Dan and I built the X31 and X-33 round roof cars we tried to get the builder to make some K9a models as another version but the prices and quantites never worked out... Oh well - shoulda, woulda, coulda... Jim Kindraka Plymouth, WI --- In [email protected], Jamie Bothwell <vze4cs43@...> wrote: > > Tom, > The B&O had some cars that were similar themselves. There is even an S > scale kit for them. Well, sort of a kit. I think there were sides and ends. > The modeler had to round up the rest themselves, after soldering the sides > and ends together of course! (Yes. I own one. I'll finish it someday. > Maybe.) > Jamie Bothwell > > On Oct 23, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Thomas Baker wrote: > > > > > In 1967 I recall riding the B&O Capitol Limited out of Chicago and seeing > > some of those X32 round roofed cars with window-like spaces cut out of > > their sides. > > > > Tom ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
