40 foot boxcar rebuild

[Gary S]

Here is the finished boxcar.

Although I greatly admire the models and the rivet counting modelers who are faithful to the prototype, with all the research, the minute and fragile details like cut levers and fine scale ladders and all, and weeks spent weathering one car, it's just not what I do. Because my layout will have interchange yards at each end where the cars will be taken on and off the layout, I want a tough car that can take the handling. Molded on ladders and grabs are okay, don't need anything that will break off, and have too many cars that need weathering to spend weeks on one car.

The car I just did is perfectly satisfactory for my needs - Three Foot Rule!