The USRA 40' steel gon has nine panels. My edition of the RPI "Guide to Steam Era Freight Cars" by John Nehrich lists mostly NYC and associated roads including B&A, CCC&StL, P&E and MC as owners. Frisco had similar cars, but with "blister" panels in the sides, which could be built up from styrene. A number of roads had similar cars (same number of panels) with different details and ends, including Southern, L&N, MKT.Possibly the car height could also be cut down as a start to an ACL or Maine Cental lowside gon.
The AF gon has eleven panels, and is based on a T&P car. Other owners of 11 panel gons (often with different ends and sometimes different panel spacing) include C of G, C&NW, D&H, DSS&A, Southern and W&LE. The F&C NYC "Despatch" covered hopper could have been built for other lines, as Despatch shops did build cars for non-NYC lines, but I don't know of any off hand. It looks like the kit might make into an ACF car if fitted with new styrene sides. The Eire "Dunmore" covered hoppers appear to be unique, although the RPI book mentions that they were assembled from kits by General American. Possibly a GA two bay car could be produced by cutting down the Dunmore four bay car? The PRR Gr class gon is somewhat similar to other road's cars from the early 20th century. Many vary in length and rib/panel count. Monon had a car similar car, altough the rib spacing appears to be a bit off. A conversion of the HO Mainline kit based on the PRR Gr to the Monon car was published in an early Mainline Modeler. In any case, PRR and NYC gons traveled so widely that arguably one or more could appear on ANY line attached to the North American rail network. F&C also made a number of resin kits for 'S'cenry Unlimited. The USRA single sheathed boxcar is theirs, probably the ore car, wood passenger cars and ATSF caboose as well. Pieter > > David Engle wrote: > > > Are the prototypes for these cars exclusive to the offered paint > > schemes--did any other roads have them? > > > > F&C supposedly at one time had a war-emergency gon in the works--I take it > > from the absence here tht this is now a dead issue. DJE > > Dave et al -- > > F&C's NYC gondola is a steel-side version of the USRA composite gondola. Many > roads rebuilt or copied the USRA gon with steel sides > instead of wood. FYI, AF's gondola is very similar. As for the other two > carbodies, they were unique to the Erie (and its successor > roads) and the PRR respectively. > > F&C never did the war-emergency gon in S. Nor did they do the PRR wagon-top > boxcar. The latter was to have been done by them for > Central Hobby in Syracuse. > > Dick Karnes Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> 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/
