09-10-2012, 02:21 PM
Wayne - what make are the gondolas? They resemble Pressed Steel Car Co prototypes, only with rungs instead of ladders on the sides. I'm guessing Accurail?
I finally sat down this morning and resumed work (nearly a month later) on my own pair of gons, both metal-bottom/plastic-bodied Mantuas. Hopefully in a short while I'll have a pair to post on this thread. You seem to have arrived at what I believe is the inevitable conclusion for placing the herald on a ribbed car - cutting away the "su" and the "na". For a while I was considering 'back-dating' the cars, or some such farce, by dropping the Susquehanna altogether and making a 'Lehigh & Western' car so that I wouldn't have to split the susie-q. Ah well, I'll be in good company lettering mine the same way.
Galen
I finally sat down this morning and resumed work (nearly a month later) on my own pair of gons, both metal-bottom/plastic-bodied Mantuas. Hopefully in a short while I'll have a pair to post on this thread. You seem to have arrived at what I believe is the inevitable conclusion for placing the herald on a ribbed car - cutting away the "su" and the "na". For a while I was considering 'back-dating' the cars, or some such farce, by dropping the Susquehanna altogether and making a 'Lehigh & Western' car so that I wouldn't have to split the susie-q. Ah well, I'll be in good company lettering mine the same way.
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!