Of all the cars in this thread I've only built or repainted a handful of them. Many have has trucks and/or wheels replaced, couplers repaired or added and many of them have been weathered. With many of the cars being 1940s examples, They were just sitting in boxes after I backdated to the 1930s. All 2 dozen of my Kadee boxcars are too late for this project, so they're still sitting in boxes waiting for a new 1950s-60s layout to come along. Some flat cars are getting the treatment tonight along with a few coal hoppers. Jon
Now for some 50ft boxcars. These are all Proto 2000, but notice the difference in the side sill cutouts between the two Southern cars. This will be corrected now that I've spotted it. I only bought thekit of the open-door model yesterday and followed the instructions properly, this time. Jon
I've been working on weathering some coal hoppers from Accurail, Proto2000 and Tichy, and making some removable coal loads out of real crushed coal - nothing else looks the same as the real stuff. Here are some photos of the whole train of recent additions Next, the individual cars Jon
I also had a bit of time to add some weathering to a Proto 2000 NKP Berkshire, although I haven't had time to get the front light working yet Jon
The tank cars are the last of the freight cars to be done before the Tyneside Show at the weekend. I haven't had to do too much work on these other than to re-fit a few couplers. I have decided to leave the broken plastic handrails as they are, as they would take too much time to replace with brass wire and brass handrail stanchions from Precision Scale (I have 4 packs waiting in the wings) Jon
The show that I have been furiously building freight cars for, finally happened this weekend. We only used my freight cars for the whole weekend, John Wright providing the passenger stock and Pennsy locos. This made packing up on Sunday afternoon a whole lot easier, not having to worry about who owned what freight car. Here are some photos. First up - the fiddle yard.(The old chap in some of the photos is called Alan - he's 82 and came over from Toronto for the show. What a guy) Jon
Some shots of the river crossings. The double track bridge is the Pennsy main and the single bridgeis the B&O branch Jon
The hand-made turnouts have Pennsy-specific detailling parts. View shows the B&O branch crossing the Pennsy main Jon
As the train rounds the curve to depart the developing scenic area, I get a chance to model my new hat for the weekend, and bring an end to a hectic 3-week modelling period. Jon
I did indeed, Les, apart from a few odd glitches which are common during a 2-day show. The worst of these was when all the locos on the track were all accidentally reprogrammed with the same address and the whole layout had to be closed down to reset the addresses. Unfortunately all the speed tables were also reset, so the chuff rates were all over the place. Jon
