While searching E-Bay last night, I discovered that Walther’s has their 4-truck depressed center flatcars on sale right now. They list at $29.98, and are only $18.98 right now. I didn’t check all of the roadnames, but I know DODX and Kasgro are both included in the sale. My Kasgro car is now ordered and will soon be joining the 12 axle depressed center car I am scratchbuilding.
I have both of the new walthers heavy duty flats {wonderful die-cast cars}…the eight axle flat and the depressed center. It’s good to know thats theres other heavy duty flat car fans out there!!!
Thanks for the heads up. I’ve been watching Tom’s site for some time, I even have a couple of photos posted on it. If you have another site on big flats, please post a link. I have a sickness for these things too! After building a KRL 300300 series 12 axle, I’m leaning towards building one of their 16 axle flats (16450 or 163201). I spent about 3 hours today working on my model before I had to come in and eat!
Kasgro has a site that shows most of their cars and also has drawings in PDF format. While these drawings aren’t exactly what is needed to model, they are a great starting point along with a bunch of photos. The people I have spoken to at Kasgro were also very helpful and tried to answer some of my questions as much as they could. The Kasgro site is: http://www.triarchy.com/kasgro/specs.asp