RE: (erielack) EL depressed flat cars

["James Harr" <bnchmark_@_earthlink.net>]

Paul and list;

As editor of From The Workbench, I look very much forward to this (future?)
project from you... I myself have one of these cars, but in the GE scheme. I
picked that because it would work as a stand-in until I do a conversion
myself! I am looking forward to yours, though...

Jim Harr
Editor, From The Workbench


Paul T. wrote:
I actually started (but haven't finished, arrrgh!) my own depressed center
flat project that I was going to write up for the Extra Board (now "From The
Workbench"). I was inspired after seeing Preston Cook's photos of an EL
7600-series depressed center flat. (series 7600-7602, built by Maxson in
1974). This car is an almost exact match for the Walthers depressed-center
span-bolster flat (which, by the way, was just re-released as a ready-to-run
kit).

Biggest differences: Span bolster intra-truck spacing needed to be tightened
by 1 scale foot, the well "ends" needed to have the downward "dip" removed,
and the spacing of the side gussets need to be redone.

That last item is where I'm at now. :)

	- Paul

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