Sylvan SS and Westerfield USRA boxcar

[cnrglen]

I finished decalling the other two cars. The USRA boxcar turned out pretty good.




After the decals dried I gave it another coat of testors glosscote to seal it. When that dries I'll finish it off with dulcote and then weathering.
I'm quite impressed by the Black Cat decals.



They include a number of extra decals to 'modernize' the car with newer reporting marks. Since this was a rather unique car that I was modelling, I had to change the car number and the build dates, which were also included in the decal set.
I did find a photo of the prototype in a book that I have but I don't think copywrite rules would allow me to post it here. I did also have the diagram from CDS:



Which was a big help as well.

I also finished the decal job on my CN USRA hopper:



In this case I just copied what I had done on my previous cars that I built a few years ago except those were done using CDS dry transfers. I'll have to try to weather the finished car to match the other pair.