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I havent gotten around to doing anything with my USA Flatcars as far as converting them to 6500 series flats like San Juan but I did manage to do a lil somthing with my POS Bachmann cut down gon flatcar

This car started out as a Bachmann D&RGW gondola, I never liked it much and liked it even less after cut the sides & ends off converting it into a flatcar. Infact I dislike the car so much the only time it gets run is when my nephew comes over and wants a flatcar for his consist...

Here is what it looked like as a flatcar...



Im not sure if I repainted & lettered the car because I felt sorry for it or I wanted some pratice for when I get around to doing those 6500 flats but here is how it turned out, still needs a brake wheel and a dullcote bomb

Oh yeah I picked 1826 as the number because thats the only wood flatcar I have pictures of.



Its at the Valmont display site of the Boulder County Railway Historical Socity near Boulder Colorado, I visit there when i visit my mom In Boulder every month or so [:)]

Awsome. Your G gauge collection always fascinates me, into buying G gauge D&RGW, RGS, C&S models myself one day.