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Reply to "Southern SU box car in O scale?"

Originally Posted by DaveJfr0:

F&C was supposed to be doing this in O Scale maybe a year ago when I asked about more O scale offerings.  Email them and see what they say.  I have no interest due to the era these cars were in.

Interesting.  F&C did the old West Shore Line of kits and they sold poorly.   I remember a plea from Central Hobby to O scalers to buy more of them so they could continue making them.    They backed out after making the NYC USRA gons, the Erie Dunmore Covered hoppers and the NYC 1946 Despatch shops covered hoppers.

 

If those cars would have sold Central might have convinced F&C to do the RDG/CNJ short gons in resin as well as the Erie/Susquehanna horizontal rib cars and the then-current Lehigh Valley "wrong way" door cars (like the ones offered by Ted Schnepf now)

 

Anyway, Southern had thousands of these cars that lasted to the end of the K brake era.   No pictures have yet surfaced of AB brake cars in Southern or M&O/GM&O paint but there are some in Lancaster and Chester lettering. 

 

The SU's with either the Hutchins ends like in the picture or Southern "T Brace" ends are cool cars.  Unfortunately the only way to get them is to scratchbuild them.

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800-980-OGRR (6477)
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