NW Depressed Center Flat Car

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Marty,

Thank you for that info. I’ll check those out. 

Phil Miller

 

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Subject: Re: NW Depressed Center Flat Car

 


Page 84 of Jim Nichols' "Color Guide To Freight and Passenger Equipment" has a very similar looking car, class F-43, #70098, listed as series 70096-70098.  It was built by Thrall in 1967.  The caption also references a similar car built in Roanoke in 1948.

 

Looking through my N&W equipment diagrams, N&W had the following depressed center flat cars with a single 6-wheel truck at each end:

 

F1, #70099, Roanoke 1948, 56'10", 125 ton

F32, #202903, NKP/Frankfort 1953, 60'10.25", 125 ton

F35, #300010-300011, Wabash 1951, 60'10.25", 125 ton

F43, #70096-70098, Thrall 1966-67, 62'10", 125 ton

 

There were other depressed center flat cars that had different truck arrangments.

 

Marty Flick

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Sent: Saturday January 28 2023 1:04:06PM
Subject: Re: NW Depressed Center Flat Car

Phil, 

Looks like a sister to the one in the picture I am attaching.  With most of these "odd" flats, N&W would only have a scant handful of a particular type, sometimes only a couple.  Can't tell about the trucks from the computer pictures on the web site.  You might want to see if they can/will provide that information.  Always nice to have another accurate N&W model available.

Jim

 

On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 7:59 AM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> > wrote:

I’ve attached a photo I took of an NW depressed center flat car that I saw during a NWHS tour of the Roanoke Shops long ago, when we saw TopGon cars being built. 

I can make out NW markings on it, but can’t make out a car number on the side or end.

Does anyone know what number(s) this type of car might have been owned by NW? I couldn’t find a car like this in the archives or searching internet sites.


Also, would this NW car have had wood decking on the raised ends? I think I’m seeing that on the car in the photo.

A company is making HO-scale models of cars like these and appear to have the correct trucks, but no N&W cars are listed. https://classonemodelworks.com/product-category/model-type/flat-cars/

Most of the cars they’re producing have wood decking on the raised parts Southern Rwy cars have metal grate decking on the raised parts.

I was thinking if I got one of these for Erie railroad, that the car is black with wood decking and could be relabeled to an NW car and number. 

 

Any assistance is appreciated.

 

Phil Miller

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