Milwaukee Road Gondola

This Milwaukee Road gondola was scratch built using photographs of this series found in many of my Milwaukee Road books. This car is carrying a load of steel girders for constructing large vertical supports.  The car is shown with newer steel sides rather  than the original wooden sides.  The car has a fully detailed underframe as well as end details found on this series of gondolas.  Scalecoat paint, with Champion and Microscale decals complete the car.  It will run on my 3-rail Proto layout.  Hope you like the car.  I had a blast building it.  Bill

Here is another Milwaukee Road gondola that was made from a Max Gray GS gondola I found at a recent train show.  The car was in need of some TLC and some upgrades as well.  All the drop doors worked perfectly with a little fine oil and some minor repairs.  It was given a fully detailed underframe with air lines as well as brake linkage.  The ends received full details as well.  I decaled the car for the GS steel gondolas that the Milwaukee Road owned.  These gondolas were often found in pulpwood or lumber service in numerous locations along with Milwaukee Road.  Hope you like the car.  Bill