Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Next project?

I'm debating between two cars...

The DSP&P's first couple passenger cars...the Auraria and the Denver...
Or the DSP&P's Bower, Dure & Co cars...#16, 17, 22-25...

All eight cars were very similar. All had similar roofs and had classic mid-early narrow gauge features. The biggest difference was that the BD&Co cars were wider. Either option produces both combines and coaches. Another difference is that the Denver, coach #2, burned in 1880.

Combine #1, Auraria, shows up in this photo from the Ted Kierscey Collection. The coach behind it is one of the Barney & Smith cars that I'm already building.
http://narrowgauge.org/images/tkcok/m0048.jpg

This next view shows one of the BD&Co cars at Nathrop...
http://narrowgauge.org/ngc/graphics/tkierscey/dspp/dspp0012.jpg

And another view with two of them in a row...
http://narrowgauge.org/ngc/graphics/tkierscey/dspp/dspp006.jpg

And another view which could be the Denver or a BD&Co car...along with my baggage car...
http://narrowgauge.org/images/tkcok/m00422.jpg

I've never met Ted, but I'll thank him for sharing is wonderful collection whenever we do meet!

I'm inclined to create a resin kit out of the one I select. If you would be interested in one or the other...leave a comment...to help me decide which to do. I'd probably offer the BD&Co with either the original or a modern roof.

I'm going to make a mold for my baggage car and B&S car roofs. I've decided that I'd like to do so in case I make more of either...as there was a second baggage car identical to the one I'm building and a number of additional B&S coaches in California/Nevada...particularly on my two favorite California NG roads...the Nevada County Narrow Gauge and the Carson & Colorado/SPng.

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