8: Tweetsie galvanized metal car 443. This was the
only 36’ car to receive this rebuild. Johnny Graybeal
collection.
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one that I modified to represent the 150 series cars, and several
of the Funaro and Camerlengo East Broad Top steel cars.
I have had an interest in Tweetsie (the Eastern Tennessee and
Western North Carolina RR) and had followed the construction
articles of Julian Cavalier that were published in the
Narrow
Gauge & Shortline Gazette
in 1985. I was confused by the draw-
ings of the boxcar presented, which showed the door off-center.
I thought that some mistake had been made or that all of the
railroad’s boxcars were that way. For some reason I never got
around to building the car.
In 2011 I built a complete Tweetsie freight train for the
2011
HOn3 Annual
. Prior to this, I had purchased “Along the ET&WNC,
Volume IV: Freight Cars Part A” by Johnny Graybeal. This is a very
comprehensive book on the Tweetsie’s boxcars. It was there that
I learned that the railroad had two types of boxcars, a 32’ car
with center doors, and a 36’ car with the offset doors.
