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Subject: 
Re: Crawling out from the woodwork again.
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Date: 
Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:46:38 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Wayne Sardullo writes:

In lugnet.trains, Stefan Garcia writes:
Very nice construction.  What kind of car is it though?  Aside from a
boxcar, obviously.

The funny thing is I never gave it much thought. I'd assume its more of a
freight style.

Boxcars *are* freight cars, so I may not be following you when you say 'it's
more of a freight style'...

The only missing part would be the side doors which I will
revisit sooner of later.

When I first saw it, I thought the recessed panels might be doors. If so, it
would sort of resemble an all plug door car... rare but sometimes seen in
lumber service IIRC. But there are a lot of details I don't know what to
make of, so who knows. It looks nifty even if unprototypical of anything in
particular.



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  Re: Crawling out from the woodwork again.
 
(...) The funny thing is I never gave it much thought. I'd assume its more of a freight style. The only missing part would be the side doors which I will revisit sooner of later. The concept for this boxcar was to make a matching boxcar for my (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)

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