Chicago & Northwestern MOW Gondola

This is a model of an early C&NW convertible gondola.  Several of these cars survived into the late 1950's in MOW service.  My model is scratchbuilt from various pieces of basswood, plastruct parts, with Auel Andrews trucks.  The car was built to operate on my Proto Hi-Rail layout in a train of various MOW cars.  Decals are Champion and there is a load of treated wooden railroad ties.