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13: Car sides and ends for a wood Tweetsie boxcar
using a composite of styrene and scale wood. The cor-
ners of the sides were notched to fit over the end sills
as per the prototype.
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on what would be a 28’ car, thus making it look like the ET
stretched the car on one end only. This particular car retained
the wooden bolster and had the “jacked up” archbar trucks. The
car was retired and sold in December 1940.
The Linville River 4 was constructed from a David Hoffman kit.
David’s kits represent the traditional type of kit, with scribed
siding and stick construction with the addition of brass cast-
ings. The brass castings, door, bolster and end sill, brake gear,
and trussrods, have the added advantage of lowering the cen-
ter of gravity of the car while at the same time adding weight
to the car. However, they do add some challenges when it
comes to finishing the cars as the brass, especially the large
door casting, doesn’t take paint the same way the rest of the
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