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another new addition to our growing line of high quality,
prototypically correct, all styrene car kits, and originally
designed for use on our own On3 mining layout: this free-lanced
gondola is typical of many such cars used on short line narrow gauge
railroads in the first half of the twentieth century. While there is
no prototype for this particular car, it was designed and built
following standard construction practices of the day. Typically,
these low sided gondolas, built on flat cars, would have been used
to haul ore, rock, sand, or ballast. These cars could be easily
loaded using any ore chute type loader, but would have to be hand
shoveled out. These cars had a low cubic capacity due to the heavy
weight of the material they carried, the light construction of the
cars, and the relatively low capacity of the trucks.
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