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I stumbled onto this in a "used" train shop - it appears to be yet another variation:





Interesting eh? "Tan" bulheads and deck. Gotta love the spartan packaging with the plastic "retainers" (this the "3" on them).

Mark

Interesting,
I've seen quite a few of those cars but never with colored bulkheads.
It's hard to tell from the picture but the color looks similar to the Illinois
Central 40' steel DD door variant #2287b. on Georges A1G site. I have that
variant color (IC) car plus the proper orange color one.





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From: Mark <williamsonwv@...>
To: a1g@...
Sent: Sun, November 7, 2010 1:04:27 PM
Subject: [a1g] Another 2281 Variation


I stumbled onto this in a "used" train shop - it appears to be yet another
variation:





Interesting eh? "Tan" bulheads and deck. Gotta love the spartan packaging with
the plastic "retainers" (this the "3" on them).

Mark







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It would have to be verified that somebody didn't just paint the bulkheads
that color and add the brakewheel. These cars came without brakewheels
originally.

There must be a measure of skepticism applied when encountering an A1G car
that is significantly different from general manufacturing processes of the
era.

Doug

In fact, I would almost bet that car has been modified because nothing like
that has shown up in over 40 years and I would expect that at least one
would have surfaced by now.

And I am not trying to be a party pooper here. Just trying to keep things
straight.

Doug

I keep forgetting things.

That packaging is the earliest style Atlas (RoCo) used on the A1G freight
cars. It was replaced very early (late 1967-early1968) with the typical blue
plastic insert version which lasted the duration of A1G.

Doug

Doug,

The car has no brakewheel.

But ... I think you're right about the deck and the bulheads. Upon partial disassembly, they appear to have been painted.

Mystery solved.

And now I can gleefully strip and repaint this model. :-)

Thanks!

Mark

In a message dated 11/9/10 1:44:41 AM !!!First Boot!!!,
williamsonwv@... writes:

Doug,

The car has no brakewheel.

But ... I think you're right about the deck and the bulheads. Upon partial
disassembly, they appear to have been painted.

Mystery solved.

And now I can gleefully strip and repaint this model. :-)

Thanks!

Mark

Oops, for stupid! I mistook the brakewheel BRACKET for a brakewheel.

Anyway, as I'm sure you know, the car would have been all black with
lettering except for the planking which is brown.

BTW, this was the most frustrating car I encountered in my quest to obtain
all of the A1G cars MIB back in the late nineties..

I won several on eBay and they came with one bulkhead missing or both glued
on or part of the load missing (although I think we agreed that RoCo may
have put a smaller lumber load with some cars) or both bulkheads without
brakewheel brackets.

And now yours that's a repaint!

I finally gave up.

Doug