I grew up in St Matthews, Kentucky in 50’s and 60’s with the L&N’s double mainline running about 500 feet behind our home with a clear view of the tracks.  Of course I played along the tracks and acquired many fond memories.

I've acquired a 1970 (guess) vintage Ulrich WW2 composite gondola. Metal carbody, wooden floor and underframe. I've disassembled it and tossed the wood. The plan is to replace it with styrene and scratch build a new under frame and brake rigging. Anyway the question is what metal did they use? I was thinking of soldering it together but thought I'd better find out if that would work or not first.

Anybody know what this made of?

Thanks,

Clarence

I've been away for the forums with some personal health issues, that have been keeping me from updating folks on my trolley modeling projects. I still want to get something up but it might be a while. In the meantime, I thought it might be fun to prompt folks here on the forums to share images/videos/what-have-you's relating to traction, trolleys, and light rail, and while we're at it, rapid transit/subways! I'm most curious with what kinds of modeling people have to share, but prototype stuff is eagerly delightful!

It's another week . . . post 'em if you got 'em.