| General Steel Castings
offered a 60-ton well car in its product line of one piece cast steel car bodies
in 1958. The buyer railroads purchased the components and assembled the cars in
their own shops. The
body and detail parts are injection molded plastic, while the well and underframe
are diecast. Intricate and accurate detail includes a free-standing vertical brakewheel.
These cars ride at the prototypically-correct height, with the well a mere ten
scale inches above the rails. The model rides on Atlas' Barber S-2 friction-bearing
truck frames fitted with Fox Valley Models 28" low-profile wheelsets, and
features body-mounted Micro-Trains® #2001/2004 couplers.
Operation of this model over curved trackage of less than 10-inch radius is not
recommended.
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