I'm digging up an old project I have on the back burner and I ran back over this little gem in the rough, my Marion Model 60 effort.  Does anybody have a reference to published plans for the Marion Model 60?  I have some very good photos and I'm this close from drawing a set of plans up, except I'm not familiar with the programs one would use to draw up a model railroad plan in this day and age.  So if I found them already done, that woul dbe a uge leap forward to finishing my project!!

Before the advent of the centerbeam flatcar for the transportation  of lumber and plywood, what type of freight car did the railroads use to transport these items?  I assume it was some type of boxcar to protect the lumber and plywood from the weather.

Thanks for your help.

Bob

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Photos, are up in my railroad photography gallery.

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