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Custom Burlington Northern 40' box car

Modeling
#1

On my last trip to Zionsville Train Depot, I picked up a couple sorry looking Lionel Large Scale pieces. One was this 40’ box car. Was horribly painted in boxcar red with self adhesive number decals on it. I removed those, lightly sanded the worst areas of the body and spray bombed the car in BN Cascade green. I found some O scale BN decals for hopper cars on ebay that would be large enough to look decent. Still need to seal the decals up with gloss coat, but that is a couple days away when everything is dried and cured. Mike.

#2

Looks good, Mike.

#3

Nice redo Mike.

#4

And you’re the first on your block to have one! Cool.

#5

Mike Toney said:

… lightly sanded the worst areas of the body and spray bombed the car in BN Cascade green.

Great rescue. And I wonder if the sanding and painting without first stripping the old paint parallels prototype repaints.

#6

Forrest, it does. One of the stories I heard, the shop repainted a string of boxcars, without even bothering to wash the dirt off them first.

#7

Looks good!

#8

Great job, Mike… The Lionel large scale cars are excellent pieces and run right nicely.

I’ve done a lot with them in the past as well… (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-smile.gif)