If you want to get something of yours runnning on the cub layout, I think it makes more sense to build a box-stock 60 foot Intermountain flat car and spend your creative effort on the custom load.
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The Intermountain car will run well, and it is very nicely detailed. You will learn a lot from building it, and it fits in the club era.
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-Kevin
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Do you mean the 60 foot flat cars similar to the Trailer Train flats Intermountain made as kits as well as ready to run? I’m not sure that I would recommend them. I have several of the kits, and every one of them has a sag in the middle of the frame. And I was looking at some ready builts at a train show last weekend and every one of them had the same sag. And I don’t know how to get rid of the sag.
I have no idea why but I love oversized cars, guess the KCS super gondolas kitbash stems from that, and the club has regular flats but a heavy duty flat would be something different.
I’d probably paint it in NWP SWP colors, I haven’t done the KCS gon yet a guy at the club wants to tinker with it to see if he can get it to run.
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I did not know about that problem with this kit. I have never assembled one myself. I have assembled many other Intermountain kits, and they have all been great.
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Thanks for the information.
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-Kevin
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Then you would want one of these:
http://mrr.trains.com/news-reviews/staff-reviews/2012/09/bachmann-ho-schnabel-car
I mean, if you are going to shoot for oversized, you may as well go for something that actually existed instead of dreaming up foobie stuff.
Just sayin’
Cheers, Ed