Author Topic: 2010: The Year of the Gondola (Read 4314 times)

Mark5 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 19, 2009, 03:24:53 PM »

I would really like a couple of the N&W/C&O battleship gons just because they are so different looking.

Don't forget:

http://www.greatdecals.com

These are really steam era things though, built in the 1910s/1920s. N&W pulled the last out of service in the early 50s, but IIRC a few VGNs made it to the 1959 merger.

N&W GKD
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns2392.jpeg

Mark

Robbman · « **Reply #16 on:** November 20, 2009, 02:05:27 PM »

Any other roads use high end gons like this?

D&H... I'll give you one guess who built them.

cv_acr · « **Reply #17 on:** November 20, 2009, 07:17:51 PM »

Not quite the same, as these were totally unique:

SOO had some neat full-height bulkhead end gons too:

GaryHinshaw · « **Reply #18 on:** November 24, 2009, 12:40:52 AM »

In celebration of the coming year of the gon:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=304858&nseq=13

Some great modeling ideas here.

ljudice · « **Reply #19 on:** November 24, 2009, 06:50:54 AM »

Great shot! Gons are great because they are often battered, grafitti covered and filled with all kinds of interesting looking junk.