What I did this week

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Any particular paint scheme will go on it?

While it was an old Rock Island (CRI&P) boxcar, i was told it will probably get a big Pennsy Keystone and reporting marks, since the museum is on PRR territory. In some shots, you can still see some of the Rock Island blue on the brake fittings.

Too cool, I half expected the car body to show up in a VERY big blue carboard box with a certain blue and yellow logo on it. Did the bottom of the draft gear boxes say "Kadee" on them? What sized phillips head screws did you use and did you cut the trip pins off the bottom of the couplers?

That would be terrifying! those "Kadees" had to weigh several tons. the swinging portion of the knuckle alone was 150 Pounds.

That is so cool!!!! You do excellent modeling on 1:1 scale!!!
Ralph
PS. Stay on that girl's good side. Anyone who can push a caboose is not to be messed with. Isn't the physics of moving a car amazing? Once you get it rolling you can push it that way?! You're a lucky guy to have a girlfriend as interested in Trains as you are!

LOL! we're pretty evenly matched, but you are right, I'm pretty lucky. She isn't quite as much of a train fanatic as me, but she'll certainly jump in. she likes to hear history and things such as that, and it doesn't really matter what we're working on, lol.

Unless I am totally confused, the "empty weight" of a 40' PS-1 box car was about 22 tons (43300 lbs)........hefty fork lift!

The kicker is that the boxcar isn't even empty. It has a complete workshop inside of it, changing areas (for the train crew of the previous owner), all sorts of stuff.

the forklift was already a heavy duty one, and they added several tons to it just prior to lifting the boxcar.

here is a photo-