1101-00 PRR G32 46' Gondola 370600-371199 GB

This listing is for the as delivered 1101-00 PRR G32 46' Gondola 370600-371199 GB

Pennsylvania RR built 600 class G32 gondolas in 1949, numbered 370600-371199. These were steel floor, fixed end, no-frills 46' gondolas on par with their earlier G29 class, but this time of all-welded construction. The design was successful, as evidenced by a subsequent 1953 build of 1500 class G32A cars, PRR 317400-318899. These were extremely similar to the first 600, differing in tiedown clip placement and having cast instead of fabricated draft sills.

In mid-1966, PRR then rebuilt 700 of the G32A* cars with new corrugated sides: 600 with typical Stanray horizontal corrugations, and 100 with Stanray vertical corrugations (to our knowledge the only cars to ever employ this unusual stamping pattern.) The rebuilds featured heavy paired-angle top chords, as was PRR practice in later years, and were thoroughly modern–very much alike in design to the road's G42 and G43 gondolas. The remaining original cars remained on the roster into the 1970s (though we have not seen photos of this) and the rebuilds served through Conrail fin revenue service before many were transferred to maintenance of way service. A number of cars lasted into the 1990s, and there was at least one car in Lewistown, PA which had been used as a crane tender and was not scrapped until well after 2000.

100 of the class G32 cars had 70-ton Scullin LV trucks (PCMP 4122-01). Out of the remaining 2000 G32/G32As, the vast majority had ASF A-3 trucks, but some did have National C-1s. Please check prototype photos, as the exact number series are not available. 

*Most documentation claims a mix of G32 and G32As were used as rebuild cores. This may be true, but PCMP has not yet seen a G32B/C with the fabricated draft gear of a G32. Additionally, the rebuilt cars were numbered in the G32A 317400-318899 range, supporting the idea that few if any G32s were rebuilt.

As delivered the 100 G32 were fitted with Scullin L-V 70 Ton Plain Bearing Trucks. Plate C has also produced these unique trucks and they are available here! PN PCMP 4122-01

Kit comes with 3D Printed
Body with ladders
Separate Floor
Brake Wheels
Coupler Box Covers
Screws 
Weights
Tichy Grabs
Tichy Wire

This listing is for the as delivered 1101-00 PRR G32 46' Gondola 370600-371199 GB