Reply to "Weekend Photo Fun 1/12/18 HONGZ"

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Today I was back at my workbench continuing to get me a rolling stock fleet for my 1880s Colorado & Pacific ready for paint. Decided to do a "chopped-top" car.

I've never been happy with the oversize height of the Mantua "old time" boxcar. (Looks like it could be a candidate for the first "Hi-Cube" car!) Read an online article on chopping out a scale 1' of height as well as lowering the frame so its proportions are more in keeping with the boxcars the Mantua model was SUPPOSED to represent.

Anyway, after some slicin' n' dicin'... here's a pic of the result. On the left is one of my modified Bachmann 34' train set cars, in the middle is my "Chopped-Top Mantua", and on the right is a box stock Mantua "Hi-Cube" car...

All fer now!

Andre

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