[Accrs] Gunderson Maxi-Stack Cars

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

I have not seen one.  Phill has a set of container cars.  I do not know if
they are this type.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:36 AM Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:

> Message From: Tony Long  tony.long at outlook.com
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> I have a project that I started years ago which is a A-LINE Gunderson
> Maxi-Stack, which is a 5 car set (ACDEB).
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> Looks like this as a new kit (see below) .  I had started it, but then put
> it away.   I suspect that was because the instructions, which likely 100%
> complete,  but is only 50% understandable in a step-by-step or car-by-car
> process.   Setting some goals to clear out started but not completed is one
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> Researching the history of this car(s) it appears to have been the leading
> innovation in mixed length container trains.  I believe some of these are
> still running.
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> Information Needed – I want to sketch out the dimensions of this car and
> wanted to start with the wheelbase,  but searching for 2 days on
> google/bing yields zero results.  Has anyone seen drawings of these below?
> I’ve measured the models themselves using just a scale ruler, but this
> could be off 3-6 inches.
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> In my reassessment of this project,  I think it will be faster to design
> the detail parts since one part is used on multiple cars.  Atlas has an O
> scale version of this and images that came up in my search it looks like
> the pivoting braces/blocks are working.  Is there one of those in the club?
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> A-LINE KIT HO SCALE
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> ATLAS MODEL –O SCALE  ATSF ECONO STACK
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> I don’t know if the new assembled cars come with revised detail parts,   I
> figure once you get the detail parts,  getting the body shape is a piece of
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> I have close up photos of the Sea-Land cars.   I came across these one day
> between Livermore to Pleasanton.  So I came back later with camera to take
> photos.  After shooting about an entire 24 shot 35mm roll,  I noticed a
> white pickup truck and a man walking to the tracks, then I noticed on the
> pickup truck Railroad Police.  He told me to leave and stay away.  This was
> years before 9.1.1.
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