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The Franktown depot had an upper window as shown in your photo. The depot was built without the roof overhang and had upper windows per photos and 1916 Valuation sketches.

The NSRM is in the process of rebuilding the Transfer Flat car. A new study of the car was completed by Stephen Drew, Jim Wilke and Mike Collins. Jim will present a talk on the car at the 2019 V&T Conference in October 11 & 12, 2019 at Carson City.

Looks good Andrew, glad to see some progress.

MAC

Nice job Curtis. I've been working with Wendell on getting some lamps for the 9. Wendell has a couple of side lamps that he's going to use, but was missing a third lamp. I came across a couple of Candle Lamps that could be used. At first he didn't think they would work until I came across a letter t...

Graig,

Windows are:
outside over trim, 22 1/2" wide by 29 1/4" high
Trim, 1 3/4" wide, bottom lip 1"
Glass, 15 1/2" wide by 21 1/2" high.

Mike

Graig, The side door opening should be 42" wide, trim should be 3 1/4 - 3 1/2" wide. The door is 43 1/2" wide, which gives you 3/4" overlap each side. The end door opening should be 25 1/4" wide, trim same. The door is 26" wide. Based on original measurements of the car. Note that the side door was ...

Craig,
One more photo.
Mike

Graig,

Heres some photos of No. 9 at NSRM.

Mike

The 1875 date is based on newspaper accounts of two cars being rebuilt and to be run at the end of the passenger train. The only problem is the newspaper doesn't give the car numbers. We do know that cars 1 & 2 were rebuild in 1873 and renumbered 8 (No. 1) and 7 (No. 2) based on newspaper accounts t...

Andre,

My drawing of the caboose is done to full scale. I can send you a CAD file and you can have it printed to any scale you want.

Mike Collins