Westerfield gon

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Grazie, paisan!  I'll see if I can find that and work it in.
There are some O scalers who show up at Hawks Nest.

Frank Bongiovanni

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 10:30 AM, NW Modeling List <
nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> There is an article in a past O Scale Trains magazine on how to build a
> Virginian Railway Battleship Gondola out of styrene. Can't remember which
> volume and issue off the top of my head but O Scale Trains has PDF files of
> past issues on their website for free.
>
> Very Respectfully,
> Joseph Congemi
>
> On Mar 26, 2016, at 07:50, NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <
> nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
> Frank
>
> Yes, in O scale a string of 15 gons would be impressive and expensive at
> around $300 per car-if you can find them....
> I have a friend who has two of them and they have been drooled on.
>
> Jim
>
>
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> Sent: Sat, Mar 26, 2016 7:44 am
> Subject: Re: Westerfield gon
>
> Dave ; thanks you.
>
> Jim, Jim: thank you guys, but here's what's going on.  I'm giving a clinic
> on the "battleship" gons of the three Pochahontas railroads at the C&O
> Modelers Meet next weekend at Hawks Nest.  I'm going to include a brief rif
> on the (sadly few good)models available thereof, and the several less than
> stellar models that have been done over the years.  The Red Ball model will
> be discussed, as what I believe was a model made a generation later to the
> same (unprototypical)pattern by Concept.  But I'm not going to give away
> more as that will decrease the excitement level if you get to hear the
> clinic at some convention in the future.  I can tell you that when Steve
> Summers, Al Kresse, and I started this project we thought that between the
> three railroads we'd be dealing with something like 6 to 8 classes of
> gondolas; we have identified approximately 17.  Jim N: yes, you remembered
> the Red Ball correctly.  Jim K; as on O scaler you're in great shape as
> Rich Yoder did a truly exquisite model of the Virginian gon in brass, and a
> train of about 15 of those would be quite impressive.
>
> Frank Bongiovanni
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:49 PM, NW Modeling List <
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>
>> Frank,
>>
>> I found a small picture here:
>> https://id18538.securedata.net/westerfieldmodels.com/merchantmanager/index.php?cPath=89
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> On Mar 24, 2016, at 1:44 PM, NW Modeling List wrote:
>>
>> Another very long shot; does anybody out there have a decent picture of
>> an assembled* Westerfield N&W GKa "battleship" gon??  I could use the
>> picture for a clinic.
>>
>> * I said it was a very long shot
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Frank Bongiovanni
>>
>> fbongiovanni at gmail.com
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