gondolas
Gondolas...
The pick up trucks of the railroad. Gondolas
are some of the most beat up pieces of rolling stock around.
They were used to haul just about anything that didn't need
protection from the elements. Chessie
had
a wide variety of paint jobs for gondolas. Predecessor
B&O and C&O ones were black with white markings.
WM were red with white markings. Chessie ones were black
with yellow markings. Also, Chessie (both
B&O and C&O) bought second hand Railgon
gondolas. Instead of fully repainting them, they just
relettered them.
A few small classes of
gondolas were outfitted with covers and one is modeled here. All three
roads had a few of these type of gons.
Below are the ones I have done so far. Adding a
little dirt and junk into the bottoms of your gondolas will make
them look much more prototypical. They never get fully
cleaned out between uses. There are also many good prototypical loads available to fit in
these gons.
Listed here in numerical order by class are my
gons.
G-? Class (B&O ?) *There were a few of these
cars still on the ORER roster in the Chessie Era, but I can't find
the class number
B&O 450305 (Athearn Genesis
purchased as a decorated car)
G-5 Class (C&O 218850-218949)
C&O 218888 (Life-Like Proto 2000
purchased as a deocrated kit)
C&O 218949 (Life-Like Proto 2000 purchased as a deocrated
kit)
G-6B Class (C&O 363500-999)
C&O 363902 (Athearn blue box kit, stripped, custom painted and
decaled by me.)
G-8A Class (C&O 31800-32199)
C&O 31811 (Con-Cor model stripped, custom
painted and decaled by me.)
G-13 Class (B&O 352000-354899, 355000-080,
355450-459, 35750-999, 355338-458)
B&O 355071 (Athearn purchased as a decorated
kit)
G-17 Class (C&O 37300-37499)
C&O 37345 (Life-Like model stripped, custom painted and
decaled by me.)
G-26 Class (B&O 367000-367499, C&O
367500-367999)
Chessie B&O 367259 (Athearn Bev-Bel purchased as a
decorated kit at a train show.)
G-39 Class (WM 58001-58075, 58151-58190)
WM 58074 (Athearn model custom painted and decaled by me.)
G-40A Class (WM 54951-54960)
WM 54955 (Athearn model custom painted and decaled by me with
scrach built covers) <>
G-43 Class (B&O 356500-357599)
B&O 357201 (Roundhouse model custom painted and decaled
by me)
G-45 Class (B&O 350000-350999, C&O 351000-351499)
B&O 350232 (Roundhouse model purchased as a decorated
kit)
B&O 350477 (Roundhouse model
purchased as a decorated kit, but I renumbered to a real
B&O road number)
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