NW Depressed Center Flat Car

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Page 84 of Jim Nichols' "Color Guide To Freight and Passenger
Equipment" has a very similar looking car, class F-43, #70098, listed
as series 70096-70098. It was built by Thrall in 1967. The caption
also references a similar car built in Roanoke in 1948.
Looking through my N&W equipment diagrams, N&W had the following
depressed center flat cars with a single 6-wheel truck at each end:
F1, #70099, Roanoke 1948, 56'10", 125 tonF32, #202903, NKP/Frankfort
1953, 60'10.25", 125 tonF35, #300010-300011, Wabash 1951, 60'10.25",
125 tonF43, #70096-70098, Thrall 1966-67, 62'10", 125 ton
There were other depressed center flat cars that had different truck
arrangments.
Marty Flick

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Sent: Saturday January 28 2023 1:04:06PM
Subject: Re: NW Depressed Center Flat Car

 Phil, Looks like a sister to the one in the picture I am attaching.
With most of these "odd" flats, N&W would only have a scant handful of
a particular type, sometimes only a couple. Can't tell about the
trucks from the computer pictures on the web site. You might want to
see if they can/will provide that information. Always nice to have
another accurate N&W model available. Jim  
 On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 7:59 AM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List
 wrote:

	I’ve attached a photo I took of an NW depressed center flat car
that I saw during a NWHS tour of the Roanoke Shops long ago, when we
saw TopGon cars being built.  

	I can make out NW markings on it, but can’t make out a car number
on the side or end. 

	Does anyone know what number(s) this type of car might have been
owned by NW? I couldn’t find a car like this in the archives or
searching internet sites. 

 Also, would this NW car have had wood decking on the raised ends? I
think I’m seeing that on the car in the photo. 

	A company is making HO-scale models of cars like these and appear to
have the correct trucks, but no N&W cars are listed. 
[1]https://classonemodelworks.com/product-category/model-type/flat-cars/
[2] 

	Most of the cars they’re producing have wood decking on the raised
parts. Southern Rwy cars have metal grate decking on the raised parts.


	I was thinking if I got one of these for Erie railroad, that the car
is black with wood decking and could be relabeled to an NW car and
number.  

	Any assistance is appreciated. 

	Phil Miller   ________________________________________
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