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Traction Freight Equipment

I thought I would start a thread on traction freight equipment.  Feel free to post things about any interurban or street railway items you are working on.  To start things off I will post a few photos of an old interurban freight trailer I picked off EBay a few years back.  I am going to start working on it and getting it into working shape.  It has some light hand lettering on it that states that the car was built in 1941 in the Schmidt shops.  The car is lettered only on one side for the Columbus and Lake Erie Electric Railway. I plan to just clean the car up. Add a few details and repaint it.  It is  of rather basic and some what crude construction.  It came on some ancient Andrews style trucks made up of rough aluminum castings. I have put my standard Athearn plastic arch bars and Intermountain wheel sets on the car as the club I am a member of ( DFW O Scale Modelers) is working on a modular traction layout now and to start out it will be 2 rail initially . I only have a small test track at home to run on and no over head put up yet.

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