I've had this bad boy built for a while, but this is the first time I've taken a picture of it & shared my work with anyone: This is a model of a Frisco 54-foot pulpwood flatcar (slang term is woodrack), which was commonly seen around southeastern Oklahoma on the old A&A Sub. Starting point for this was a Walthers GSC bulkhead flatcar kit. I chopped the bulkhead ends, added a V-shaped floor using thin styrene, painted the whole thing yellow, added proper decals, and weathered the crap out of the deck using chalk pigments sealed over with Dullcote. kadee number 5s are on each end, and I need to replace the plastic wheelsets with metal ones. Gote three more GSC kits with me, so I can build a few more woodracks. This is a pic of one of the prototypes: 102 of these cars were sold to the Kiamichi Railroad in Hugo, OK for pulpwood service. Almost all were converted later to haul logs when Georgia-Pacific went away from pulpwood length loads. Don't know if any are still around or not...
<font color="336633">Nice car Bob I got one of those to build in BN, only it still has the wood planking on the ends but they been chopped down to about 2/3rds the height.
I may elther modify a couple of Chooch loads to fit the car, or build my own pulpwood loads. Matt- I discarded the wood ends and floor (well, they're in my junkbox) on my car. I used strips of styrene to put along the sides of the car, then glued down a thin sheet of sheet styrene that I scored to bend it into the V-shape. The bulkhead ends are about 3/4 the height of the original kit. Too bad Walthers doesn't make them anymore- I found several more of these flats at a swap meet in Ft. Worth, TX. And Frisco, BN and Kiamichi ran solid trainloads of pulpwood from the Nekoosa loading yard in Antlers, OK to the Nekoosa mill at Ashdown (it's on the KCS, but the three RRs had trackage rights to the mill, and KRR still does.). Kiamichi painted and renumbered quite a few cars, but I'm only interested in the originals.
