I wish you guys wouldn't start neat freight-car threads while I'm on vacation!
Anyway, it isn't so much a "new" design as something built in-house. You go through the series and you'll find a number of subtle differences from car to car, especially on the ends.
Not too many of them have come past me lately--there was a time when we'd get several per day.
Isn't Brandenburg headquartered somewhere near Gary?
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
