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The pick up trucks of the railroad.  Gondolas are some of the most beat up pieces of rolling stock around.  They were used to haul just about anything that didn't need protection from the elementsChessie had a wide variety of paint jobs for gondolas.  Predecessor B&O and C&O ones were black with white markings.  WM were red with white markings.  Chessie ones were black with yellow markings.  Also, Chessie (both B&O and C&O) bought second hand Railgon gondolas.  Instead of fully repainting them, they just relettered them. 

A few small classes of gondolas were outfitted with covers and one is modeled here.  All three roads had a few of these type of gons.

Below are the ones I have done so far.  Adding a little dirt and junk into the bottoms of your gondolas will make them look much more prototypical.  They never get fully cleaned out between uses.  There are also many good prototypical loads available to fit in these gons.

Listed here in numerical order by class are my gons.


G-? Class (B&O ?) *There were a few of these cars still on the ORER roster in the Chessie Era, but I can't find the class number
B&O 450305 (Athearn Genesis purchased as a decorated car)


G-5 Class (C&O 218850-218949)
C&O 218888 (Life-Like Proto 2000 purchased as a deocrated kit)

C&O 218949 (Life-Like Proto 2000 purchased as a deocrated kit)



G-6B Class (C&O 363500-999)
C&O 363902 (Athearn blue box kit, stripped, custom painted and decaled by me.)


G-8A Class (C&O 31800-32199)

C&O 31811 (Con-Cor model stripped, custom painted and decaled by me.)

G-13 Class (B&O 352000-354899, 355000-080, 355450-459, 35750-999, 355338-458)
B&O 355071 (Athearn purchased as a decorated kit)

G-17 Class (C&O 37300-37499)
C&O 37345 (Life-Like model stripped, custom painted and decaled by me.)

G-26 Class (B&O 367000-367499, C&O 367500-367999)
Chessie B&O 367259 (Athearn Bev-Bel purchased as a decorated kit at a train show.)



G-39 Class (WM 58001-58075, 58151-58190)
WM 58074 (Athearn model custom painted and decaled by me.)



G-40A Class (WM 54951-54960)
WM 54955 (Athearn model custom painted and decaled by me with scrach built covers)

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G-43 Class (B&O 356500-357599)
B&O 357201 (Roundhouse model custom painted and decaled by me)



G-45 Class (B&O 350000-350999, C&O 351000-351499)
B&O 350232 (Roundhouse model purchased as a decorated kit)


B&O 350477  (Roundhouse model purchased as a decorated kit, but I renumbered to a real B&O road number)