Carl Miller

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 The answer is, yes, Jim Nichols has bashed a GKd by cutting down an old Athearn 50' box car. I think I even wrote it up in a long gone issue of the Arrow. It makes sense that Westerfield would have done a GKa, as the GKd would be too modern for him. But the GKd is all most of old timers ever saw, and they lasted right up to the early '50's. Trucks are a problem, but a few of them actually got Buckeyes. So you could get away with that.
Jim Nichols
    On Sunday, February 20, 2022, 01:18:37 PM CST, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
 
 Jim, old friend, I'm not arguing.  And your disbelief is understandable.  A very reliable source talked to Westerfield himself and was told that he did make a Gkd, and that after about a dozen the mold broke.  I take legends like that with a grain of salt.  But just as a check on my senility I ran down to the basement and found the one that I have.  I don't know if the new owner has redone them or plans to.
And if you browse the 'net you'll see an outfit called-IIRC--Concept models that catalogued VGN and N&W battleship gons.  We got some.  They are absolutely awful.  I got Summers and Munson to review them with me and they turned purple.  After looking at them carefully--okay, even from two feet away--they are a redo of the old Red Ball N&W battleship gon.  I doubt anyone would find them useful, unless majorly bashed, nowadays.  [Now that I've said that, I'd bet a cup of coffee that Jim Nichols has done that, but for most of us......]
Frank Bongiovanni
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 1:05 PM NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

Mr. Miller,
I don't believe Westerfield ever produced an N&W battleship gondola.  As Mike Shockley has pointed out, Westerfield has produced several variations of N&W hoppers.
Funaro & Camerlengo did produce a Virginian battleship gondola; is this what you are looking for?
Jim Brewer
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 10:35 AM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

Westerfield still makes N&W hoppers. As far as I can tell, they can be ordered on their website. Westerfieldmodels.com. There is a link to the secure store. 

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