{"id":784,"date":"2008-06-30T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2021-06-17T04:06:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T04:06:00","slug":"hawk-oo-freight-cars-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Hawk OO Freight Cars 101"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The newest issue (June, 2008) of The OO Road<\/em> (the publication of the NMRA American OO SIG) contains an article by Edward Morlok on the Hawk OO gondola, with information on the unusual wood sided prototype (it is a sulfur car) and a photo of a nicely built up car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Hawk Model Company was located at 3521 Fullerton Ave. in Chicago. A producer of model airplanes, they advertised their line of OO gauge freight cars little. I have never seen a catalog and at present (2008) only have this one complete kit for the gondola, a nearly complete caboose kit, parts for an automobile boxcar that could be rebuilt, and a few extra frames. The most recognizable feature of the cars is the die casting for the frame. Note also the original glue and paint which is in a glass vial with a cork stopper. These were included in the kit which sold in 1941 for 50 cents. They also sold O gauge kits that sold for $1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hawk seems to have produced the OO line only for a short while before and into WWII. The instruction sheet is dated 11\/26\/40. I believe this is the first advertisement for Hawk OO, reproduced from the February, 1941 issue of Model Railroader <\/em>with photos of four of these five cars:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. 500 Gondola (wood)
No. 501 Box car (outside braced)
No. 502 Steel caboose
No. 503 Auto car ( 50\u2019 double door box car, steel)
No. 504 Flat car<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also as this is the general article on Hawk OO, a few more general notes. The company itself dates back to 1928 and they produced a wide range of products. One of their best known products for me was their line of “Weird-Ohs” as my brother made several–a nice profile on the company and the production of these models may be found here<\/a>. According to the Wikipedia<\/a> Hawk was purchased by Testors in the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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