My C&S stockcar bash

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More photos...

The caboose from earlier in the thread:


It has an interior, but I won't install the window glazing until after I've weathered her.

The trio of stock cars:

From L to R:
-A Grandt Line kit my father started around the time I was born...never finished by him...I added a few scratchbuilt details to provide a little variety (example: the original corner braces were semi ornate castings....Grandt Line's kit includes the simple bar stock braces...I scratch built the former).
-The kitbashed Type II car. She'll have badly faded lettering to go along with her faded paint scheme by the time she's finished.
-A stock Grandt Line stockcar which I built as my first On3 car...but I gave her a face lift and finally lettered her.

All of the cars currently have gloss codes from adding the decals. They'll be flat or matte when they're ready for the layout.

Here's an idea of the size, when compared with a piece of HO flex track, of the C&S cars. The above four cars and my C&S gon are slightly longer than the flex track (on the siding is an OR&L coach).


Our house sold this week, so soon I'll be disassembling this sectional layout and move to the new (not yet identified) basement which will house the permanent layout. Once that layout is ready, these cars will receive their brake wheels and brake hoses at long last!