I don’t know if anybody out there models the DMIR, but I have a question. I was looking to model my own take on their pulpwood gondolas (http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsList.aspx?id=DMIR&cid=6&rid=3700 is a link to a list that contain photos of the cars.). Unfortunately, in the pictures on the site I am unable to read the AAR Classification on the cars and the site doesn’t list the AAR classification either. Would these type of cars be properly classified as “GBS” or “LP”? From everything I have read, the “GBS” would be the correct AAR classification, but I am not sure. Any help anyone can offer to assist me would be welcomed.
My July 1985 ORER lists them as GBS. I believe the information in the ORER is submitted by the railroad, so that would imply that DMIR thought of the cars as GBS. I don’t know if anyone else was in a position to make a different call.
Ed