Much talked about boxcars.
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This one was taken President's Weekend 2024.
It's pushing 50 years, still in service!

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So back in May I joined the Bricktown Model Railroad Association in Mt Union, PA, a local museum and model railroad club modelling the East Broad Top, though doing so in the transition era instead of my own. When I told them I enjoyed building kits they turned me loose on their big kit stash of cars so I have been working on those building up skills to tackle the more complex narrow gauge kits I have. Here’s a fair amount of the work I have accomplished there in photos.


All of these boxcars were built from Roundhouse kits, except the 50’ UP composite car in the middle which was an Accurail kit.


This was a purchased car but the previous owner glued the floor on and used Accurails little plastic truck pins, so I tapped the holes and replaced the pins with screws so the trucks could be more easily removed.


These are both from my own kit stash. They were used to teach me how to put cars through the club’s standards battery for consistent operation.


These are all coal loads I did. To make them I took the plastic coal loads from the car, sanded the sides a bit to make them easier to remove, and taped around the edges with masking tape. I added white glue to the load, spread it out with a brush, and then coated it in coal. I used the dried contents of expended Brita water filters for the coal. Once the glue was dry I removed the masking tape, knocked any loose coal off the top and sides, and glued a metal washer to the bottom so they can remove by magnet. This was taught to me by another club member.


This is an Accurail kit. On this kit I got a little ahead of myself and accidentally glued the little rib across the bottom of the hopper bays before adding the frame. I ended up having to cut the frame apart and cement it in in three pieces but it came out looking pretty good I would say.


And these are two more Roundhouse kits. These roundhouse boxcars were especially educational as I started batch-building them seeing as they are reasonably simple but missed that the door rail on several went in upside down and didn’t slow down and check that it was correct on each one before cementing. Important lesson! I went through with a hobby knife and shaved the proud rib down, cemented the doors closed, and then matched paint by eye to cover the cut plastic.

I will likely post any more of the work I do for them here, too, unless it’s something more interesting. Hoping to be a little more active in modelling through this winter as I am finding it much more difficult to model at home in the summer because I am outdoors a lot more often.

SMS Rail continues with switching duties for the Dock Street Railroad.  Caught them on Delaware Ave with a pair of gons loaded with scrap.

Bruce  

   

i offered this car to Charlie but he didn't have room for it if anyone would like it pm me.
Jim
free shipping to lower 48

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been off the model track too long so i  made the decision to build a Quonset hut that more reflects the era i model most of the surplus ones sold in the 50's were of the 16 by 36 size so I started by laying out an 8 ft radius piece out of .040 to use a mold to bent some plastruct ho corrugated sheet over it to start. now to cut it out.
Jim

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and running.  Just came on line today.

Tom

WPMA-29 making it's way into the Lower Bank team track.

Bruce

   

I forgot Lionel basically are not scale models and are not linear in proportions. Tried to populate my new passenger cars. Seats are too small, I will have to use MTH figs which are closer to S scale. Seats in dome cars in the dome are very narrow.

This was a pretty easy and straightforward install on a Nscale Atlas/Kato RS 11. No milling of the frame was needed

1. In this project, we will modernize this Blue Box model by installing a decoder and LED lights using a Digitrax DH126 and two 3mm warm white LEDs.