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Quick Look: Eastern Seaboard Models N scale General Steel Castings 60-ton well flatcar
Well hole cars aren’t a numerous type of freight car, but they do important work for manufacturers of heavy, bulky machinery. And a very large proportion of such cars on North American railroads were built using major components from General Steel Castings. GSC also has produced “kits” for pulpwood cars and underframes for other sorts of flatcars that have a well-earned reputation for durability.
All the real railroads for which Eastern Seaboard Models lettered its models have or had such GSC cars, and the ones that Allis-Chalmers had were quite similar. The D&H’s cars, like its four-truck flatcars, generally carried heavy electric products from General Electric’s plant in Schenectady, NY. The cars in ESM’s first run sold very quickly and may now be hard to find. The firm has stated that it will be offering a second run, including a differently painted New York Central car and some new roadnames, later this year.
See Eastern Seaboard Models’ Facebook page for information on two loads for these N scale cars (machinery under wraps) made by Hay Brothers and another (a huge wheel with gear teeth around its circumference) that ESM itself will be offering.
I would really like to see a comparable model of this type of car produced in HO scale.