G2 40 foot solid bottom 'mill' gondola, Vermillion

G2 40 foot solid bottom 'mill' gondola, VermillionHO scale kit with trucks and magnetic couplers. This 40 solid bottom 'mill' gondola, GST G2, in Vermilion with side facing goat herald represents cars built in 1952, numbers 72500 72749 which were 41 6 inside length and of 140,000 pound capacity. Each of the three cars we offer carries a correct car number for the type of car. This lot of cars were the first solid bottom steel gondolas purchased by Great Northern. These cars were intended to carry

white metal smoke jack

As of 1942 GN had 2

See GNRHS Reference Sheet 331 for more details

There is no window at all on the gable end wall where the bedrooms are located

and brake wheels

Customers demanded wider doors so that they could use fork lifts to load and unload all manner of products

at age seventeen

for example

a two story section house

Great Northern Railway blueprints and photographs of the Skykomish depot were used to design the kit

belt rails and corner posts was introduced

or a retired boxcar body