PC X79 Boxcar (Rail Yard Models)

I have started on building another Rail Yard Models PC X79 Boxcar. These were financed by Kellogs for use in transporting cereal out of Battle Creek, MI. I had built one previously, but thought I would show the in progress shots of the second one I am building.



This is all the kit parts laid out on the workbench. Many of the parts are resin with some plastic details to be applied. Trucks and decals are also included.



First the coupler pockets are glued to the underframe, the easiest way to accomplish this task is to put a small dot of ACC on the underframe, spray the coupler pocket with accelerator and then put together. The thin ACC does give you some time to position the part before the accelerator kicks in. The reason the pockets are put on first is they give you something to help align the ends of the car as they are glued on next.



Here is the car after the ends were glued on then the one side was glued on. I used thick ACC and then sprayed on the accelerator to set the ACC in place. Stiffeners were then glued in place in the car using the same glueing method. Not shown I have also glued in place the final side. Next up will be cutting the strip styrene for the underframe detailing.

Thanks for looking!

Rick J

 

Here is this weekends progress on the PC X79 Boxcar.

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Here I have glued on all the I beams to the bottom of the car along with the caps on the main structural beams.

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Started work on the brake line piping and rigging, assembled, drilled holes for pipes on the Air Reservoir, Triple Valve and Brake Cylinder, installed the main air line and the lines from the Air Reservoir to the Triple Valve, still have a lot of work to do on the piping and rigging.

Thanks for looking!

Rick J

 

After a two year hiatus I got the X79 off the shelf and started in on completing the brake rods, brake rod guides, slack adjuster and airlines.





Started work on the end detail, attached ladders, walk over platform and placard board. I was supposed to use a piece of plastic rod as the grab, but I substituted a piece of .012 wire as being more robust.



Thanks for looking!

Rick J

 

Thanks for the good comments, I have enjoyed building this kit!

I have completed the car and it is ready for the paint shop!



The "B" end of the car, including ladders, grab, brake housing and brake wheel.



Side of the car complete with grabs at each end, door stops and all the rodding for the plug doors installed.

Thanks for looking!

Rick J

 

Managed to finish painting and decaling the PC X79 Boxcar that I showed the in progress pictures of.





Rail Yard Models kit, painted with Floquil PC Green and Platinum Mist Paints and lettered with kit supplied decals. This car was financed by Kelloggs and leased to the PC for use in hauling cereal from Battle Creek Michigan accross the country. Can put a lot of cereal boxes in a 60' Hi-Cube Boxcar.

Thanks for looking!

Rick J

 

Very nice job Rick.

 

Rick
Your X79 looks alot like this Santa Fe Bx-166. Not quite the same but you say the X79s are used for hauling Kellogg cereal boxes. BLMA makes the Bx-166 & says they are used for beer & wine. Maybe some of these cars have hauled that but the one shown here carried paper to Murray Bag on the LAJ Ry in CA. This image was taken 10/16/74 by Charlie Slater a conductor there. This car was only two months old then. Have a sneaking hunch these kind of cars are used to haul anything that has their kind of capacity & double doors. Will be looking for one of your car type in PC. Have seen enough pix of freight cars on the LAJ to know that PC cars would not at all be unusual!

 

The big difference is the Bx-166 were homebuilt by the ATSF and the PC's were built by Thrall. Also, there was no insulation in the PC cars, hence the XL classification versus the XLI classification on the ATSF cars. So the PC cars could not be used for beer, wine or canned goods which could be damaged if the load froze.

 

Didn't say these cars HAD to be used for beer & wine. That's just what one model freight car maker said they were used for. In other words it's the RRs & their customers that say what freight cars are used for when carrying cargo. Besides this Bx-166 was used for paper which isn't too likely to be affected by freezing in Oct.