Baggage/Express Car, as built, 38'6", roof walk, end ladders, no doors (baggage end door optional). Prototype built by D&RG in 1883 as Adams Express Cars. Correct Trucks (kit 5002A) are available, see seperate product listing.
Laser cut wood, with cast resin roof, brass and plastic details. Cast resin prototypically correct clearstory roof included. One Prototype still exists (as rebuilt), #168 at the Colorado RR Museum in Golden, CO. This kit builds the long versions of the D&RGW Baggage cars as operated in D&RG trains by Adams Express Company. Prototypically correct for all ten (10) of these cars, depending on specific small detail changes. This kit builds a Baggage/express car as built, before modifications made in the 1924 rebuilding program. The kit comes with a roof walk and end ladders. Built up as rebuilt) model is shown for reference, you are bidding on a kit for this car, see additional photographs. This is the first time this car has been offered in HO scale as a laser cut, wood kit. Brass models may have been available. There are complete instructions included, but no trucks, couplers, paint or glue. Trucks are available here and in my E-Bay store (PN 5002A) for $8.45 a pair or you may add them by asking before you pay your invoice and adding it to your order. Not a quickie kit, craftsman quality, but easy and simple to assemble by the average kit builder. Cast resin roof has 16 window clearstory and is correct for most of these cars, see prototype photos for exact match.
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