I don't exclude passenger car reconstructions from the rolls of the Master Car Builders, there just are not as many who tackle that job.

Strasburg and more recently FEBT come to mind. Several extensive trolley and coach projects have been tackled by Glenn Guerra.

The Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes museum in Phillips has also extensively rebuilt a coach.


http://www.srrl-rr.org/Projects/Coach_5/Coach_5.htm

Perhaps we should even consider the heavy rebuilds and new coaches built by and for the Silverton, Cumbres, and White Pass - though they are mostly of steel construction, the work is still within the realm of the MCB documentation over the years.

One of my favorite examples of heavy restoration is the Florence and Cripple Creek coach rebuilt under the wing of Paul Delleska. It literally was a "hang the roof from the ceiling" project, building a new car underneath it. Since this fantastic work was done, there is little evidence the Stuhr Museum is actually going to revive the 3' gauge railroad.


http://www.stuhrmuseum.org/tourrailroad2.htm

Wood car construction is interesting, and an art which I am glad to see reviving.
O. Anderson

The photo of WSLC 5 raises a question...

Did you build the underframe upside down or right side up? We normally build our cars upside down, and have found lots of contemporary evidence that many builders did so...

On the other hand we built our WSLC flat (no 222) right side up... The WSLC cars have all the sills the same size, have lateral truss rods which are in three pieces, and had a steel plate re-enforced draft gear best assembled with the sills on their sides, making it (from our view) better built right side up...

Randy

Mr. Hees, you are definitely the man! Upside down ... who would have thought? The closest comparision that I've had with this, though certainly not aesthetically, was when we built the THOMAS replicas, Mr. Anderson had us assemble their frames upside down. It made all of the assembly, fitting and brake work so much easier.