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I somehow doubt it, simply because arch roofs vary from one railroad to another. Harriman ends have the most recognizeable shape, while D&RGW's streamstyled archroofs featured ends more like those Frisco cars. However, the "Peak" series diners had a yet different design, curving down slightly before ending in 3 truncated panels. Other archroof cars had slightly bowed ends, or completely flat ones for a more streamlined/lightweight shape, et cetera. I honestly don't know where "archroof" stops and "betterment" or "streamstyled" begins though, because in large part, cars that were built with arch roofs tended to follow a more Harriman design, while modernized cars could really have any shape or size, in part because they often didn't remove the original roof and instead integrated it too. My guess would be that whether a car is "Harriman," "Turtleback," "Archroof," "Streamstyled," or "Betterment" more or less depends on who you ask, because as stated in my original post on the subject, absolutely nothing was standard. Each railroad likely had their own name, if they had any name at all, and railfans are notorious for adopting completely different names than any railroad ever used. That's where we get whaleback tenders, Pullman green, Railroad Roman, and many other commonly used names which can be misleading to the new researcher.Not to pick, but I was always taught that a turtle back roof was a type of arch roof, humped up more than arch, Harriman style or SOU, etc. with squared clerestory style ends and an arch roof was a commuter coach or something that had raised vents. That a turtle back was turning a clerestory into someone to look like an Arch potentially with garland vents or A/C ducts underneath the outer skin. Note how the turtleback arch roof has squared off ends whereas the regular archroof does not. Harriman ends are usually not all the way rounded, SOU turtleback rooofs, SLSF, etc, usually have a slight squared off profile to the turtleback arch roof.
I think you mean MT-73?
LA&SL 7858 | Brooks | 63764 | Built Jan 1923 | Scrapped Mar 1955 |
I kinda wanna make one too now.I might wind up trying the same thing myself at one point!
Awww, gee, ya'll makin' me blush... Here's some more encouragement!I kinda wanna make one too now.