Hi all -
Based on a O scale model I built a few years ago using the 1911 Electric Railway Cyclopdia and photo research of the prototype, I've made a run of twenty O scale laser wood with brass body and truck kit of the Brooklyn & queens Transit 9000 series gondolas. These four wheel work flats were recycled from obsolete open cars by the BRT around WWI. They were used as general purpose haulers assigned to each carhouse and could be seen hauling scrap, ties, switches, trucks, anything that would fit on the 20,000lb. capacity bed.
The kit consists of laser cut wood underframe, flooring, pole mast and bed sides. The car ends, bumpers, frame sides, mast tube, and some of the detail parts are hand built brass. The kit includes Q car controllers, hand brake and lifeguard fenders. There are Grandt Line and Archer rivet detail parts included also. The truck is the St. Louis Car Co. #46 truck seen under most of the Brooklyn four wheel fleet, I have the Q-car cast white metal sideframes and motor plate, along with a pair of Intermountain 33" wheelsets included (NWSL is short on 33" wheelsets, and I had a 3 pound bag of these from my dad's shop).
The kit is $55 with free shipment to the lower 48. This kit right now is limited to twenty in this run.
Looking at doing the 1906 BRT convertible family (see preserved 4573, 4547 and 4550) in laser wood and epoxy with brass etch parts. I wanted to make the original open platform, the enclosed with doors and the one man'd version options available in this kit. If I get more than twenty deposits at Rutgers for this kit, I make a run of twenty five or more of them.
Jan
