11-25-2010, 11:14 AM
I'm going to say fairly new. If I go for the idea that the cement company bought it new, it would be maybe 5-6 years old. If I go with the idea that they bought it used from the PRR, it would only be in cement service a year or two. But it would have been all dirtied up by PRR service and just have a realtively shiny spot where the Pennsylvania lettering was painted out. I'm leaning more towards the idea that it was picked up new by the cement company, even thought he all-time 44-tonner roster here: http://www.thedieselshop.us/GE_44Ton.HTML doesn;t show they ever did buy any new.
I've never weathered anything, outside of spraying freight car trucks grimy black, so this should be interesting.
--Randy
I've never weathered anything, outside of spraying freight car trucks grimy black, so this should be interesting.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad of the 1950's in HO
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