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Michael, thank you very much for your explanations! I am a locomotive engineer myself - steam, by the way - that's why I am familiar with Westinghouse, but I never heard of Eames! Thanks a lot. Somewhere I read a comment about these cars like: "they had two of everything" Exactly that would...

Yes indeed! And for me it is EXTREMELY impressive considering their age! Just imagine such huge cars - with all the service requirements - almost a century ago!

Russ, Lettering says either 32 or 52 - can't specify exactly. But I am ssuming both of these dates would be wrong (but also isn't a problem, because the car should get a heavy weathering). I am aware of the 'war emergency cars', but all these huge 'Battleships' were made entirely out of steel.

Hello. The photo below shows my VIRGINIAN gondola made from wood – probably an old kit (but I did never see one of these before or after). Before it will get weathered I want to upgrade the under side with some brake detail, but don’t have info of the car type. What I have info of...