Large Scale Central

A multi-year boxcar project

Modeling Rolling stock
#1

A bunch of years ago I made cast resin ends for a composite boxcar, based on a car at the Strassburg museum. Bruce Chandler did a wonderful job building his car. I built mine using an acrylic box, scribed wood siding, and epoxied the ends to it. Some styrene sheet, shapes, and wire for the door. I got the basic box done, and then got distracted onto other things.

…much time passes…

A couple of days ago I pulled it out of its project drawer, and decided to finish it. First was a pvc roof, Then the roofwalk supports, and some paint. Finally, decals, wood roofwalk, and trucks/couplers. Voila, another operations-quality boxcar for the fleet.

#2

Great looking car, Nice job.

#3

Just don’t take that long on the rest of them…:wink:

#4

Fine sharp looking car Bob. A nice addition - eventually - to your pike.

#5

Pretty neat. Are those the “official” colors for your RR? I still need to build a boxcar for the decals, but haven’t picked a prototype yet. Need to find something a bit different…

#6

Bob’s near the old Fort Devens, how about an ammo box car???

#7

Sean McGillicuddy said:

Bob’s near the old Fort Devens, how about an ammo box car???

#8

Ric Golding said:

Sean McGillicuddy said:

Bob’s near the old Fort Devens, how about an ammo box car???

Wuuuuuu, special instructions required for moverment.

Handle with care. Do not drop. This side toward enemy.

#9

Gee, thanks. Now I don’t feel so bad about my boxcars. I have 2 scratch-built boxcars almost done, but not quite. I forget when that project started, but it has been a good number of years ago.

#10

I bought a couple of Bob’s boxcar kits a few years ago. They are still in the unopened shipping container. Maybe this winter…

#11

I’ve had a couple of ““excess height”” boxcar sides, ends and roofs done… Just have not put them together on a chasis… One is a 40ftr, and one is a 50ftr.

#12

Steve Featherkile said:

I bought a couple of Bob’s boxcar kits a few years ago. They are still in the unopened shipping container. Maybe this winter…

Me too, plus a couple of the acrylic boxcar shells that Andre was selling.

If someone would just put together a kt of all the misc. parts you need to finish them I might get my butt in gear!

#13

Another one rolls out of the “almost done” shelving into the paint shop. This one is based on my EBT kit, but without the EBT style grab irons.

(http://i.imgur.com/wKDVTSel.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/C9t2SKel.png)

#14

Neat looking cars… Nice work.

#15

‘Like’ button!

#16

Now ya need a purple one…:wink: