doctorwayne's Get off yer duff Challenge (Part II)

[doctorwayne]

Finally, some progress to report.  

Here's the HPc hopper from Westerfield.  Most of these cars would have been rebuilt with the more familiar below-the-floor pocket-type hoppers by my operating era, and it's unusual, I think, for an N&W hopper to be delivering coal in Canada.  Nevertheless, it'll see regular layout use simply because it was such a "joy" to build.    
Here it is, about to be dropped at Hoffentoth Bros. coal outlet in Lowbanks...



All six of the Tyco gondolas have been painted, but only three are currently in service...







The other three are also painted and mostly lettered, but I ran out of heralds and will have to order more custom lettering in order to finish them.

The two Walthers USRA drop-door gondolas also got finished....their exterior bracing doesn't allow enough room for the regular -size heralds, but the ones meant for flatcars fit in just fine....





Also completed was work service gondola 115....



...a companion for the already-in-service 121...



Interchange partner CNR also gained a couple of cars, among them this Westerfield gondola...



...which joins this car, already in-service...what's new  is the load of heavy timbers, which will also fit in some other cars...



Also for the CNR is another open hopper car, shown here with a sister, and both from Accurail.  Lettering is from C-D-S...





The windows are from either Tichy or Grandt Line, with lettering a combination of decals and dry transfers.  I also added a step below the doors and a long grab beside each door, too.  I hope, though, that the LPBs won't attempt to use them, as the doors are cemented to the car's sides and reinforced internally with heavy sheet styrene.  

I've still got another gondola  in addition to the three missing Tycos.  It's the one from Ertl, and is painted and waiting for the CNR decals to come from Westerfield .

Next, I'll return to the scratchbuilt Seaboard boxcar, and have received material yesterday to begin work on the NC&StL Fowler boxcar.  If I get bored with those, there's more work to be done on Part I of my Challenge.

Wayne