Re: (erielack) EL depressed flat cars

["John Bruce" <j.bruce_@_gte.net>]

Actually, sometime in the early 1980s, Locomtive Workshop had a crude
plastic kit for what appears to be the EL car (I think this was a standard
GSC design that several roads purchased).  I have this kit, but it's so
crude that I've held off working on it.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "James Harr" <bnchmark_@_earthlink.net>
To: "ErieLack Digest" <erielack-digest_@_lists.railfan.net>
Cc: "Paul (home) Tupaczewski" <paultup_@_optonline.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 7:48 AM
Subject: RE: (erielack) EL depressed flat cars


> 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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