LIRR NX23-A Caboose Modeling |
ex-PRR #492754 LIRR #49 as painted by: George Wybenga. He is noted for watercolor painting of prototypical items. |
LIRR #48 NX23A Woodside along the Main Line c.1948 Info: Dave Keller+ Third overpass east of Woodside station, which is 65th Pl. Info: Albert Waltien
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LIRR #49 Arch St.Yard LI City 1949 Photo: Geo. Arnoux, Archive: Dave Keller+ ex-PRR #492754 Caboose NX23 rebuilt by PRR from external braced framed boxcar. Renumbered LIRR #49 in 19 ? Comment: Dave Keller - LIRR Historian 11/18/07 |
The LIRR had two class NX23A cabin
cars with an additional modification where the car ends were moved in
creating end platforms with cast steel PRR type cabin car steps placed
under the corners of the side sills. The first design proposed for the NX
23 conversion did not have the small bay window and side door we remember.
The original proposal dated Feb. 1943 was for a car with wide end
platforms and a centered N5 type steel cupola. Research: 2002 "Transfer Table" newsletter of the NRHS Wilmington Chapter by Richard E. Hall |
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Horizontal sheathing in all three
photos and
George Wybenga painting. Info: Steve Lynch Please note that my kit models the car with vertical sheathing and the required extra horizontal bracing. It is not a good candidate for the LIRR version kit bash. When and if I do the horizontal sheathing version the LIRR car is a possibility. See kit 10061 on our web site: www.westerfield.biz Al Westerfield |