Some friends were chatting about drop-center flats. I have a penchant for them, particularly the ones that are sand cast in aluminum. I have also created a few myself from rather thick brass plate. I thought maybe a few photos wouldn't hurt.
Here is my first one - somebody gave me a bunch of Kemtron Heavy Buckeye trucks, and I had to find some uses:
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Love the double trucks on your model.
My roster has a couple of the All Nation depressed center flat cars.
At the last O Scale West, a few more depressed center project bodies came into the Clinton Street shops. They are quite a bit wider than the All Nation ones. Maybe AN was splitting the difference between scale and tinplate.
Here is a longer, 12 wheel cast aluminum depressed center flatcar that Walthers sold as Kit 5403. This one is rides on Precision Scale brass 6 wheel Buckeye trucks. Still needs a load!
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@RoyBoy posted:At the last O Scale West, a few more depressed center project bodies came into the Clinton Street shops. They are quite a bit wider than the All Nation ones. Maybe AN was splitting the difference between scale and tinplate.
There were more sources of these and some were 17/64th's
I have mostly All Nation, and never noticed that they were undersize. I shall check. That is a beautiful Walthers and a stunning photo. I have two, but now no need to post a photo of them.
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