It's cars like this which really pulled me deeper into the hobby. Not sure, but one was a poultry car. The one with all the planks and shelves for the chickens and other section a refrigerated area. I painted it deep green on the roof and rest of course was white wash, metal sprung-loaded trucks and kadees.. I was in heaven. Not sure. Was this an Ambroid "One in (was it ?) 5000 Series" kit ? I'm tawkin' 1956 ish. I then wound up with lots more wooden cars...M Old 'Volfie' Dudler was ze best wasn't he ?!! He amazed me. Here he was, born, raised, lived in Germany and yet captured the spirit of U.S. RRing and MRRing to the max, and especially the heyday of it when and where not only standard-gauge steam and diesel rubbed shoulders daily, but where American narrow gauge and standard gauge rubbed, to boot !! I wonder, if Wolfgang, had he lived longer, would he have eventually gotten into modeling US traction...Man, his catenary ("On a Hot Tin Roof "!) would have been simply A1!!..From a maroon or maple green NYC GG1, through the Los Angeles Red Cars, kinds of trolleys in loads of cities, an SF Cable Car, NYC IRT (interborough Rapid Transit [very first subway in NYC. Is smaller in car-body-width than other two, BMT and IND [all 3 are/were standard gauge] due to smaller original tunnel width chosen in the late 1800's, Manhattan]. Or, maybe he'd have captured the Great Northern with Little Joe on the point or one of those GN box-cab-type centipede-like behemoths. I mean HO, DCC, up and running !! Volfie (a little poetic rip off of "Amadeus"),we've never forgotten you here at TrainBoard............ I haven't, ..... M
