Fergus Falls MN Shim Shed - HO

Fergus Falls MN Shim Shed - HOFergus Falls Maintenance of Way structures. Taken together these items provide the common working structures needed to support a section gang. See Reference Sheet 329. The Shim Shed was used to store wooden shims used to correct surface defects in the winter when the ties were frozen into the ballast, and thus very difficult to tamp up. Foot print 4 9 16 by 1 9 16 inches.

white metal smoke jack

The car represented by this model is part of a group of 40-foot box cars rebuilt into the plug and sliding door configuration to better serve lumber and plywood shippers in September of 1960

Copper Bars

and the NP to clear

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The only one of these cars known to be repainted to Big Sky Blue is X 394

but without the bay window

front and back

Note 3:  In Reference Sheet 402 the term “yellow-buff” was used

Vincent and Winnipeg

When these small section houses had outlived their original use the railroad converted them to other uses

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