Reply to "Keystone Model Works hoppers"

Ed,

I'm curious to see how much common tooling there really is. The two cars are different and represent 15+ years of freight car development between them.

I built a couple of GLa's out of the IM USRA twins and they are different. Besides the rib contours being different, the cars have 6" difference in inside length, 8 inches of difference in top of side sill height and 4 inches of difference in bottom of side to top of rail height. I could never correct the 4 inch difference in top of rail to bottom of side height because it meant pushing the under frame up into the car more.

I know that doesn't sound like much but it really is visible.

We'll see, but I hope Lionel does the GLa right and the USRA Twin a little off. O Scale already has a really beautiful USRA Twin, it could use a good plastic GLa. Worst case is if they try to find a happy spot in between both and do them both wrong.

George Losse

9/10/148:37 PM

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