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Bryant,

I am no master modeler, that's a real car being loaded onto a "ro-ro" gooseneck truck trailer in South Elgin, Illinois, for it's return to CTA where it became part of their "Heritage Fleet".  Due to the lighter coloration of the shoe beam area, it was the better of only two side-view photos of a 6000, clearly showing the arrangement, that I could find on the web.  Here is the second, less well lit, also taken at a railroad museum - IRM:

CTA 6656-2

I was amused that the first, better lit photo was taken at the Fox River Trolley Museum, formerly known as "RELIC" (Railway Equipment Leasing and Investment Co.) where I began my railroad career as a volunteer in 1967.  I found that picture unintentionally while searching for photographs of 6000 trucks.

It is interesting that CTA, having long ago burned all its bridges to the 6000s, had to buy back examples from museums, a la UP and the 4014.  Sadly, all examples of many remarkable but now extinct classes of equipment were scrapped for pennies and will never be reproduced.  Who could cast a one-piece frame for a NYC Niagara?  The Chinese?

Thanks, again, for your input.  Learning that markers on other pieces can be controlled by the software inspires me to learn more and hope for a solution.  I'm an old spike pounder but still marginally educable, sometimes.

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