Pertaining to all railroading subjects, past and present, in the American Midwest, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas. For questions specific to a railroad company, please seek the appropriate forum.
Pertaining to all railroading subjects, past and present, in the American Midwest, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas. For questions specific to a railroad company, please seek the appropriate forum.
Being a Civil war Buff,
I am researching the Civil War Hospital Car.
I want to build a 1:29 scale of this car. but I need the dimensions of a Civil War era Coach Car that ran on northern railways.
Length, width and height.
Any information on this would be of grwat help to me.
Also there is some info and specs on them in Trains and Technology: The American Railroad in the Nineteenth Century By Anthony J. Bianculli
Published 2002
University of Delaware Press
Railroads
ISBN 0874137292