nachoman 2021 do something challenge

[nachoman]

Well, here is the car.  Bought used off EBAY for a decent price.  The kit is missing a truck screw and a coupler box screw.  Neither will be an issue.  I think the tooling for these cars dates to the 1970s - and there are issues.  I've learned that these kits have incorrect trucks per prototype.  Also, the baggage car shares the same truck spacing with the coach and other cars, and thus has the truck bolsters too far from the ends because the baggage car does not have vestibules.  I am fine not correcting those issues, as I have far too many other things to do besides cutting and gluing. 

I also noticed that the two sides of the car are identical.  Not sure if this is prototypical or not.  I would think both long doors would be on one end of the car and both short on the other.  But the way it is, each end has one long and one short door.  If this is an error, it is definitely not fixable. 

I will probably start with the roof, putting the roof vents in.  Not sure how many roof vents a baggage car needs, but I will probably just build it per the instructions and it will look fine.