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friscobob
May 31st, 2000, 02:42 AM
The Frisco board looks dead, so I thought I'd liven it up a bit..... http://www.trainboard.com/wink.gif
So........anybody ever model the 54-foot
pulpwood flats (called "woodracks" in Okla-
homa)? It's an easy conversion to do, starting with Walthers' 54' GSC flatcar and some sheet styrene. If interested, Email me at slsf1630@aol.com.
Highball, y'all!
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Bob T.
E-8
May 31st, 2000, 04:08 AM
Can't say that I am familiar with it Bob. I would like to do a transfer caboose in N Scale though someday http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif
Charlie
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friscobob
May 31st, 2000, 04:44 PM
Charlie,
I moved to Hugo, OK in April 1986, when it was a BN town (before that, it was an im-
portant junction point on the Central Division, the junction between the Ardmore &
Arkinda and Ft. Smith Subs. BN had scads of
woodracks that they used to haul pulpwood out
of Antlers and Ft. Towson, OK to the Nekoosa
paper mill in Ashdown, AR. When Kiamichi bought the like in 1987, they also took title to 100 or so of these and some of the 40-foot woodracks (Atlas' cars are dead ringers for them). I took several detail shots, and when Walthers cam out with their
GSC kit, I had found the dead ringer in HO!!!
ANd now a rarity, since Kiamichi has converted almost all of Frisco's woodracks to haul logs, as per Georgia-Pacific's changeover (the oew owners of Nekoosa Papers).
For those Frisco fans modeling the south
end of the Central Division, as well as areas in, say, Mississippi and Alabama, it would make a great car for the collection. And it's easy to build a fleet- it just takes time http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif
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Bob T.
E-8
June 2nd, 2000, 02:24 AM
Very interesting Bob. Is that something that you could post some pictures if here so we could get a good look?
Charlie
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