HOn3 cars for TrainNut

[doctorwayne]

You're right, Kevin; operating doors used to be a much-desired feature, so it was easy to ignore the oversize door tracks and the "claws" on the bottom edges of the doors.
Most of my cars with separate doors have them glued in place (closed), but I left a few with an operable door on one side. They're useful for a loading dock scene or to add a little variety to a train of otherwise similar cars. On an around-the-room layout, they need simply to be turned to select which side the viewer sees, so I seldom bother to actually make use of the fact that the doors are operable.




I have quite a few of these Walthers 50' boxcars, and decided to add operating doors to both sides of two or three of them. I used the slide mechanisms from some old McKean or Front Range boxcars, so the doors of the car in the picture below are open as wide as they can be.


I hope that Tom has a hobo or two to add to that open doorway.

Wayne