Did Someone say B-7?

Howdy, you Polecats, I'm back with my own computer, the "Waldcayut 1" and now have a functioning keyboard again.
I have read most of the posts over the last month or so, and have at times cringed that I have not been able to respond. One of these posts was, I believe, from Grant Houston, who was wondering about building a model of the B-7 and what he could do to get pretty close. I apologize to those who responded to an earlier offer I had made to provide measurements of the B-7, and I have as yet failed to do so. I will provide these measurements but I have not been able to draw the car and present them properly. Other priorities, I guess, like work.
Anyway, Grant, I have built a pretty good model of the B-7 in On3 using a styrene Crossing Gate Parlor Car kit as a starting point. To do it right you have to cut new window openings on brand-new scribed sides. Most of the windows are the same size as the WIDE Grandt castings, used for vestibule coaches. The large picture windows at the rear on both sides can be made by fabricating two of the narrow coach windows together. My good friend Erick Nelson was kind enough to measure all around the car for me on one of his trips to Durango. The measurements he provided are in no way close to any published dimensions for the B-7. At least one of the drawings used by the D&RGW as B-7 is probably not B-7 at all, but the much smaller B-8, now at the Colorado Railroad Museum. That one is about the size of a short Baggage car. The B-7 is almost identical in length to the Alamosa (now coach #350), much longer than a platform coach.
Let me know if you are interested in these dimensions, I'll send them to you and get some pictures of my project. It's a lot of work to do one, but very well worth the effort.
To those who have already requested these, I'll send them along, I still have your names and addresses.
Mike