Ambroid open-platform coach

Ambroid Open-Platform Coach

A visit to the “Flash Model Train Meet” in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, on March 27 netted me this well-built Ambroid passenger car kit for an open-platform coach of late-nineteenth-century vintage. If I recall correctly, the Ambroid kit is based on a Boston & Maine prototype. The built-up car will need a few adjustments: new couplers, a re-glued truss rod, and eventually probably some adjustments to the paint on the roof and especially the clerestory, but it is in excellent condition overall. I have the companion kit, for a combine, and perhaps having this completed example on hand will help motivate me to build it — or provide some guidance as I do.

Ambroid open-platform coach
Built-up Ambroid kit for an open-platform coach.

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