Weekly Photo Fun 3/4 - 3/10/16

[Ralph]

I've been removing the roof walks from some of my Penn Central boxcars to reflect the circa 1966 ICC expectation they would all be removed by 1974...which was later extended. Most PC boxcars I see in videos do not have roof walks so I hoped to make mine look more prototypical. This is a Bachmann car I bought at a flea market years ago for a couple of bucks and updated with Kaydee couplers and metal wheelsets. The weathering on the roof helps disguise vestiges of the holes left after the roof walk was removed. I filled them with Green Putty and did considerable sanding and filing.