{"id":3167,"date":"2022-02-26T07:12:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2022-02-26T07:12:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:12:11","slug":"a-hawk-santa-fe-sulfur-gondola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=3167","title":{"rendered":"A Hawk Santa Fe sulfur gondola"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This unusual model is an example of the sulfur gondola produced just before WWII by the Hawk Model Company of Chicago. As I mentioned in the book, <\/a>the company had been founded in 1928 by brothers Dick and Phil Mates as Hawk Model Airplanes, and they produced a wide variety of products over many years, moving to plastic models after the war (one of their best-known products was their line of “Weird-Ohs”), and was ultimately purchased by Testors in 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the only wood sided gondola kit ever offered in American OO, and it is not an old-time car, it is contemporary to the pre-war era. The wood construction of the prototype cars was due to the (sulfur) load type. It was in a way a smart choice by Hawk as it suited wood kit construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Examples of the prototype cars were owned by the AT&SF and T&NO, among others. In the book I have an example decorated for the T&NO, and I have decorated several stock versions of the model for my Orient (see here for example<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another example came in and I wanted to decorate it and modify it a bit to be more accurate to the ATSF cars. Online I managed to find photos of a brass model that I presume to be accurate to the prototype. The most noticeable modification of the Hawk model is the supporting piece at the top of the sides. For decals I struggled and finally pulled something together that is about 85% accurate. As close as anyone is going to get without custom printed decals. It is a nice model overall and one I may upgrade to better trucks at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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