04-02-2009, 10:29 AM
ocalicreek Wrote:The interior has no weathering yet, as I have not yet decided what type of ore this car will carry. I may have a surprise in the works, there.
Galen
Galen, I think the only time a hopper would have any paint on the inside would be when brand new before it hauls it's first load. As soon as any sort of bulk commodity was loaded into a hopper or ore car, any paint would be knocked off. Certainly by the second or third load, the paint would be removed. If the car is in regular service, the inside would stay shiny bare steel because any surface rust would be polished off by the next loading. The only way the inside would rust is if the car sat still in an unloaded condition for a period of time. Just some random thoughts to consider as you think of how to weather the car. One thing I intend to do when the house remodel is done (almost finished!!!) is to try some of the bright metal foils that the car modelers use to simulate chrome on the inside of a gravel hopper to simulate the inside being freshly scrubbed off by all of gravel dumped into and emptied out of the cars over the years.