[RITSlist] Flat Cars

[okfrstrobert at wowway.com]

Joe:

I have built three of the "streched" flats (one of each style) using the P2K flat as a starting point, along with Steve Hile's decal sets. I didn't get carried away on some of the minor changes, like the end sills, but did scratchbuild the splice plates (the most visible detail) from Evergreen .010" styreen and added the rivet heads scraped from an Accurail box I was rebuilding into a welded side car. They came out well, and the idea for reusing the rivet heads to make the splice plates came from Ted Culotta's method's that he featured in some of his RMC frt car stories over the last few years. It IS time consuming to do, however, and it's tough to get the shaved off rivits perfectly the same size, so if you need more than two or three flats, Ross's plan for a "kit" for these cars might work out better. I understand Tichy now sells pkgs of "rivets" in several sizes, so this could also be used if you prefer.

Take this for what it might be worth. If Ross does these flats, I'd probably get several, although I don't need too many.

Bob Massey    

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:21:32 -0500, Joe Sindelar wrote
> RITSList, 
>   
> I want to thank everyone who responded to my flat car question.  In doing 
> a little additional research I believe the Proto 53’-6” AAR Flat car is a good 
> match for Rock Island’s 91100-91599 series flat cars.  There is a photo of one 
> of these cars on Jeff Prince’s great website hauling a wrecked covered hopper. 
> It also seems the Proto car may be a good starting point for Rock Island’s 
> rebuilt and lengthened flat cars.  The length seems to match the ORER and it has the 
> correct number of stake pockets.  The end sill needs to be thinned somewhat 
> and the center stake pocket is offset in the wrong direction from the car centerline 
> but these are minor changes.  Splice plates would also have to be added. 
>   
> Joe 
>   
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