Here is a kit bashed car made up from various Rivarossi N scale cars. The sides are salvaged from the old "light weight/streamlined" RPO baggage where the prototype was derived from an Army Hospital car that had been converted by the Monon Railroad. Changes were made to the doors. The roof, car ends, floor and trucks are from the standard heavyweight cars.
This week I finished this UP Boxcar, and started a patch job on another boxcar. The 2nd pic is the 2nd box running through the wye at Buckeye Creek.
Nothing done this week, working on taxes, so a couple of pictures from the club layout! Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
A Santa Fe local passenger train prepares to depart Davidsville, with its baggage car bringing up the markers. John
Here's one I've had for a while. a TYCO 4-6-0 that started off life as a AT&SF unit, but found it's way to the paint shop to become the Utah & Pleasant Valley No. 3, The James E Talmage. I painted the boiler to resemble the Russian Iron...Still need to do some work on the tender. Anyone else do late 19th century railroading?
Instead of working on the April contest boxcars, I'm tackling a couple of undecorated MT 56' General Service tank cars. Two will be Procor, labeled for hauling Hydrogen Peroxide, and a third will be for hauling vegetable oil for potato chip plant I have on my layout. I used pictures from rrpicturearchives.net for decal and striping positioning. I also added conspicuity striping to a few other tank cars that did not have them applied from factory. 2016-04-15 17.42.52 by Adam Henry, on Flickr 20160415_174606 by Adam Henry, on Flickr 20160413_210818 by Adam Henry, on Flickr
I finished my second Procor car tonight. I lucked out that a MicroScale lading set included hydrogen peroxide as an option. 20160416_225416 by Adam Henry, on Flickr
