Wheels of Time - N Scale - Arched Roof Baggage-Express Car -- Southern (GS&F) #6050(green/white roof) (SKU 805-166-run2)
Available On: June 1, 2010
Features:
► Utility vent roof
► 4-wheel trucks
► Ply-metal doors
► Fishbelly underframe
► Flat ends.
► * RR had very similar cars not exact prototype
Some quick notes:
Southern's all steel baggage and express car measured 64'-5-3/4" over buffers with an end sill length of 61'-0" and weighed in at 107,600 lbs. Originally built in 1913 with a clerestory roof. Rebuilt with an arched roof probably in the late 40s. It was sublettered George Southern & Florida (G.S. & F. ) a subsidary of Southern Railway. Carried mail, luggage and express. Car No. 6450 exists at the South Carolina Railraod museum.