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Monon Scale Modeling => Ho Scale Monon => Topic started by: Mike Aufderheide on December 11, 2017, 12:24:28 pm

Title: Accurail 36 ft Fowler Boxcar
Post by: Mike Aufderheide on December 11, 2017, 12:24:28 pm

All,

Accurail is coming out with a 36 foot fowler howe truss boxcar with one of the first cars decorated for the Monon:

http://accurail.com/accurail/ART/1100/1165_sm.jpg

This model shows a straight center sill and for some reason they haven't used the fish-belly center sill that they already have for their 36 ft double sheathed cars. This is pretty close for a stand-in model.  Nice to have.

Regards,

Mike Aufderheide

Title: Re: Accurail 36 ft Fowler Boxcar
Post by: Mike Aufderheide on December 17, 2017, 02:26:19 pm

Here is the ad for the car:

http://thecourier.typepad.com/files/accurail-ad-for-january-mrn-and-rmc.pdf

Mike Aufderheide

Title: Re: Accurail 36 ft Fowler Boxcar
Post by: Mike Aufderheide on December 17, 2017, 02:28:02 pm

And here is a blog post from a fellow who saw the Monon car at Trainfest:

http://thecourier.typepad.com/alongtherightofway/2017/11/another-brand-new-car-from-accurail.html

Mike Aufderheide

Title: Re: Accurail 36 ft Fowler Boxcar
Post by: Mike Aufderheide on January 03, 2018, 05:32:23 pm

All,

Here is a blog post from Eric Hansmann on the new Accurail cars including prototype information:

http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/accurail_data_1150series.pdf

Regards,

Mike Aufderheide