Scratchbuilding a PS 5344 boxcar

[cnw1961]

Gus, don’t forget it is O scale. That makes the metal work much easier and when I take pics, I scale them down to the same size as if I had taken a pic of a HO scale car … so they’d better look good or it would mean that I had done a lousy job .

Progress has been slow, but now I only need to add a few more details and the car is finished. Since my last post I have added the upper door tracks and the brake gear. The white metal brake parts are from Selley. When doing the brake gear I was not interested in absolute accuracy, I only wanted to make it look right when viewing the car from the side at eye level.