I built a "bench" shape of balsa wood that fits in the car, and used dried stems of some flowers for the logs (wish I could remember what the flower was now!). KC helped me out with locating the model magazine article on this car, in time to provide me with an accurate car number and decal placement. I also found (after I had finished my model) that the actual PC gondola pictured in the article had the brakewheel on the upper car body (I left it on the bottom, since I didn't see why they would have gone through the trouble of connecting the brake rigging to the upper body). They also cut the sides off the cannibalized gondola at the deck level, whereas I cut the deck out from inside the car.
The info in the article mentioned at least one of the cars seen was former NYC, and the cars were in captive service between a port on Lake Erie and a mill in Pennsylvania, I believe. I'm not letting that get in the way of hauling them on my layout though!
I made this car from a couple $2 gondolas I got at a train show. I mounted the couplers to the car body, but didn't alter anything else. I'll have more in the works when I find some more cheap gondolas.
I'm using this car to start interchanging pulpwood to the C&O in Muskegon for SD Warren. The traffic will originate somewhere up north on the Michigan Northern (Mancelona perhaps) and move down to Hughart Yard in Grand Rapids, where JAMU will pick it up and deliver it to Muskegon.
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