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50-foot Outside Braced Gondola
Milwaukee Road
No. 5299E -1971 Release
50-foot Outside Braced Gondola
Ohio Seamless Tube
No. 5299B -1971 Release
50' Outside Braced Gondola
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
No. 5299-D -1971 Release
50' Outside Braced Gondola
Rock Island
No. 5299-F -1971 Release
50-foot Outside Braced Gondola
Santa Fe
No. 5299C -1971 Release
The AHM HO-Scale 50' Outside Braced Gondola arrives
in the product line in early 1971. The model is likely designed or inspired by the war-emergency practice of utilizing
wood slats in place of steel during the WWII period. Many examples of these war-emergency cars would be rebuilt with
steel panels following the war, thus dropping the interesting makeshift design appearance of steel bracing holding wood panels.
Original roadnames included Ohio Seamless Tube; Santa
Fe; Milwaukee Road; P≤ and Rock Island. The early AHM ads for the model displayed a C&EI example, which was
not among the initial roadnames. The model retailed for $2.49 back in 1971.
The model has also found in Model Power's product
line and was also present in the IHC-Hobby line.
My example is a Roco Austria import by AHM.
I believe later examples exist produced by Mehano in Yugoslavia.
If you're looking to make the AHM offering a prototypical piece of rolling stock, it is possible.
Check out Rail Model Journal's October 1994 article, Kit Converstion: 50-foot EJ&E Gondola from AHM's HO Scale Model available online at theTrainLife website. John Nehrich's article includes some prototypical analysis of the AHM tooling, inlcuding
mention that the car's 50-foot length is too short for accuracy.
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