Elvas Tower: D&RGW Stock Car 5609 - Elvas Tower

350 Class 5 cars were ordered from the American Car and Foundry Co. in 1903 and delivered in 1904 and 1905. They underwent a minor revision and repair program in 1907, at which time the doors received their unique “double chevron” bracing, and they were completely rebuilt in 1926, at which time they were painted black.

Some cars in this class, including this one, had “double decks” for hauling sheep and hogs, and were identified by a small superscript D after the car number.

This car was modeled from Tomalco plans published in Sloan's “A Century + Ten of D&RGW Narrow Gauge Freight Cars, 1871 to 1981”, and the historical data is from this same publication. Howard Saunders performed file and texture tweaking, all lettering, and initial testing. Herb Kelsey performed additional testing, and Tom Werb performed the final Beta testing.

Enjoy, Bill

Original File Name = 5609_release._26_May_09.zip