Westerfield gon

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There is an article in a past O Scale Trains magazine on how to build a Virginian Railway Battleship Gondola out of styrene. Can't remember which volume and issue off the top of my head but O Scale Trains has PDF files of past issues on their website for free.

Very Respectfully,
Joseph Congemi

> On Mar 26, 2016, at 07:50, NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Frank
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> Yes, in O scale a string of 15 gons would be impressive and expensive at around $300 per car-if you can find them....
> I have a friend who has two of them and they have been drooled on.
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> Jim
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> Dave ; thanks you. 
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> Jim, Jim: thank you guys, but here's what's going on.  I'm giving a clinic on the "battleship" gons of the three Pochahontas railroads at the C&O Modelers Meet next weekend at Hawks Nest.  I'm going to include a brief rif on the (sadly few good)models available thereof, and the several less than stellar models that have been done over the years.  The Red Ball model will be discussed, as what I believe was a model made a generation later to the same (unprototypical)pattern by Concept.  But I'm not going to give away more as that will decrease the excitement level if you get to hear the clinic at some convention in the future.  I can tell you that when Steve Summers, Al Kresse, and I started this project we thought that between the three railroads we'd be dealing with something like 6 to 8 classes of gondolas; we have identified approximately 17.  Jim N: yes, you remembered the Red Ball correctly.  Jim K; as on O scaler you're in great shape as Rich Yoder did a truly exquisite model of the Virginian gon in brass, and a train of about 15 of those would be quite impressive. 
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> Frank Bongiovanni
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>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:49 PM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>> Frank,
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>> I found a small picture here:  https://id18538.securedata.net/westerfieldmodels.com/merchantmanager/index.php?cPath=89
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>> Dave
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>> On Mar 24, 2016, at 1:44 PM, NW Modeling List wrote:
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>> Another very long shot; does anybody out there have a decent picture of an assembled* Westerfield N&W GKa "battleship" gon??  I could use the picture for a clinic. 
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>> * I said it was a very long shot
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>> Thanks
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>> Frank Bongiovanni
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