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R Snyder

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I have started working on a new single sheathed boxcar similar to Colorado Central # 24. It is basically a scratch build starting with some of Phil Dippel's parts. I am currently fabricating the lower door rail from old hacksaw blades.

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No, Marty, I'm not done yet. I cannot work as quickly as you. I am using mostly basswood, some from Phil's narrow gauge, I cut the hacksaw blade with a dremel tool and belt sander, and Don, I cannot make it to the meeting on Saturday.
 
Wow... I like that door a lot better than the one I just installed... (based on the GR pull-out plans but lengthened to 30')

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Maybe next time I'll be looking at your pix for reference. :)

Trot, the blatently-copying, fox...
 
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The car is now more or less finished. It is too long, the queenposts are too tall, and it has the wrong brake wheel, among other things for rivit counters, but I think it turned out fairly well for a quick build.
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The car is now more or less finished. It is too long, the queenposts are too tall, and it has the wrong brake wheel, among other things for rivit counters, but I think it turned out fairly well for a quick build.

Oh no. You've goofed it. Better send it to me
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Discussion starter · #20 ·
I just finished a Kansas Central boxcar, since my railroad links the Colorado Central to the Kansas Central in my slight rewriting of history. Yes, there really was a 3' gauge railroad in Kansas.

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