05-06-2012, 02:17 AM
These cars will have a BLT. date of 1922-or-so, but are intended to represent cars that were considered "cutting edge" for their time. (And that opinion, I think, will be restricted to the owning railroad, at least to some degree. 
) So, as new improvements became available, the road (EG&E) adopted them, replacing panel-style doors with the Youngstown type shown, replacing the original trucks with National B-1s in 1931 and installing Viking roofs around the same time, and changing from K-brakes in 1934 to AB type. In 1936, the second grab iron would have been added at the left end of the cars' sides. All of these changes were considered "improvements", not rebuilds, so the BLT. date would not have changed.
The cars will be painted boxcar red, with underbodies, ends, and roofs black, much like the older car shown below. Some roads left their roofwalks unpainted, while some painted them boxcar red, even when the roof itself was black. On the EG&E, they're painted black, so dirt and dust will be the main visible weathering.
![[Image: Freightcarphotos009-2.jpg]](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/doctorwayne/Freight%20Cars%20%20%20Part%20I/Freightcarphotos009-2.jpg)
In service, the cars will represent ones approximately 15 years old, but with paint jobs done when the roof replacements occurred.
Wayne
) So, as new improvements became available, the road (EG&E) adopted them, replacing panel-style doors with the Youngstown type shown, replacing the original trucks with National B-1s in 1931 and installing Viking roofs around the same time, and changing from K-brakes in 1934 to AB type. In 1936, the second grab iron would have been added at the left end of the cars' sides. All of these changes were considered "improvements", not rebuilds, so the BLT. date would not have changed. The cars will be painted boxcar red, with underbodies, ends, and roofs black, much like the older car shown below. Some roads left their roofwalks unpainted, while some painted them boxcar red, even when the roof itself was black. On the EG&E, they're painted black, so dirt and dust will be the main visible weathering.
In service, the cars will represent ones approximately 15 years old, but with paint jobs done when the roof replacements occurred.
Wayne