Sylvan SS and Westerfield USRA boxcar

[doctorwayne]

.....and while I was building one, why not build three:

I agree....once I get into a project, I find that it's a good choice to make as many similar items as I think will be needed.  If I put it off, the next session for me is trying to remember how I built those items, so more time wasted.

As well yesterday my new decals from Black Cat arrived:

I'm sure that I've read more than once that the CNR's open cars (gondolas, hoppers and flatcars) were black up until WWII, and then brown/freight car red, afterwards, which seems contrary to the labelling on the decal's envelope.  Since I'm modelling the late '30s, most of my CNR hoppers and gondolas are black, although I do have some Intermountain CNR gondolas in boxcar red/brown, dating from an earlier layout set in a later timeframe.  I don't have any CNR flatcars.

I doubt that Al Ferguson would be wrong, though, as he's been offering very nicely-done decals for some time.

Wayne