--- In [email protected], JGG KahnSr <jacek...@...> wrote:
> Off the top of my head without digging into references, I think the real
> difference (and visible if a USRA and a GLa are put next to each
> other) is that the GLa is about a foot shorter in height.
8 inches shorter, for the original Gla versus the standard USRA twin. However,
Gla-type cars were built in a number of different heights for roads other than
PRR.
> My long-standing thesis is that there are at least a half-dozen distinctive
> prototype freight cars which were routinely interchanged during the
> steam/early diesel era so many of us favor,
Yes, but this runs the risk of becoming a parade of wackiness, while a train of
mostly boring, nondistinct cars with the occasional oddball is more true to
life.
> And closing the circle on this, I'd agree that serious PRR modelers would
> want at least a few GLa's, but I'm not so sure the rest of us feel the same
> sense of urgency.
Serious PRR modelers need about 50 Gla's, but most of the rest of us can get by
with one or three.
David Thompson
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