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 #516206  by jpbairkc
 
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.

YOS

 #516257  by Burner
 
hmmm.. cant say i've ever even seen a picture before...

You know the Mackays in the Ghost Garrison from Iowa?

 #516399  by CarterB
 
There's a Tyco/Mantua Hospital car with pics on ebay currently.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mantua-Tyco-Civil-w ... otohosting

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