Who Made This Cast Metal Gondola?

I know the name, but not off the top of my head. The ad I saw was from the Feb. 1950 Model Railroader.

Are you thinking of "Rail Craft Models" on page 76.

 Roo

Roo posted:

Are you thinking of "Rail Craft Models" on page 76.

 Roo

I don't think so, but I will have to go check the archives to be sure.

So it's not this one?

Railcraft cars are sheet tin not cast.

Joe

It turned out to be a HO ad from the 1967 RMC issues that I was thinking of... 

Thanks for the input.  Here are some pictures which show the construction and markings.  The end castings are marked "A" and "B" and are screwed to the sides.  That's a solder blob on the right screw.  The bottom shot shows the screws holding the sides.

Sorry I couldn't help you, nice car though I like it.

Roo.

Scale Craft and Alexander made similar cars.  We now have a whole branch of the O Scale hobby collecting older cast stuff.

Don't forget - in the olden days one could make wood forms and hike down to the neighborhood foundry or high school shop class to get them cast up.  Not so much any more . . .

We have an expert on these things elsewhere.  Look around and you might get an answer, along with MRR advertisements.

I wonder if the "KH" is an owner's mark that was put in by Ken Henry.  Besides building locomotives, Ken built many cars for the traveling B&O O Scale railroad that wound up in Cincinatti and on his own model railroad.  As Bob2 said above there were various suppliers in the late 1930s and 1940s offering cast aluminum kits and some of the patterns were passed from one owner to another.  The construction reminds me of Scalecraft.  I built a 50 foot NYC gondola offered by Scalecraft a couple of years ago that used the same assembly methods for the castings.  That model, with a scrap load, now resides in a good friend's steel mill complex.

The car is a very nice example of classic O Scale that you don't see every day.

Joe