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PRR B60 and B60b Baggage Cars

B60 small

I made some modifications to some of my B60 and B60b Baggage Cars.  I removed the roof vents on 2 of my B60b leaving 8 square holes in each roof. I machined square plugs to solder in from the inside. I filled the small gap around the plugs with solder and wet sanded them smooth to match the roof contour. It was quite labor intensive on 16 openings. The PRSL B60 had some different work performed on it. I had some extra K4 tender trucks that look very similar to some of the trucks used on B60 and B60b. When I put the K4 tender trucks on the floor the coupler height was very high. I had to machine the center truck bushings down to almost nothing to lower the coupler height. I also changed the doors to the square window style to match a specific PRSL car. See the book “Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines in Color” on Page 72. I have 7 B60 and B60b cars total which is really not enough to make up a second class passenger or mail train. I may get more at some point.

 

 

PRR R50b

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This R50b was made by Southwind Models in 1989.

 

Reading Passenger Cars

In 2011 I started to make some Reading Passenger Cars to fill out the “R” in my PRSL fleet. I had urethane roofs and roof vents made to fit the plastic S Helper Service heavyweight cars.

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More to come here…

 

Updated 7-2-11

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