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From: "Paul R DOT Tupaczewski" paultup AT comcast DOT net
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:56:33 -0500
Subject: Those ExactRail depressed center flats...
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Hi folks,

I picked up an ATSF ExactRail depressed center flat car yesterday to see how
close it is to the EL Maxson-built 7100-series (which they claim it's the
"closest match to"). Surprisingly, it IS close - here are some photos of the
ends of the car (where the discrepancy lies), along with a repost of Ben
Bartlett's photo of the prototype. It appears that the end decks need to be
lengthened by about 2 scale feet, but then you have a correct EL car.
Fortunately, it looks as if some styrene will do the trick - and even more
fortunately, the deck itself is flat steel sheet at the points it needs to
be stretched.

I've written ExactRail to see if they'll release undecorated kits before I
try stripping this car down and stretching it, I'll inform everyone of what
I find out.

- Paul




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