Model Railroading > CP Waffle boxcar

I weathered and detailed this CP car many years ago. The interior is painted and weathered and has a load of palletized bricks exposed. There's even metal banding across the doorway. To this day I wish one of the top manufacturers would attempt to make a boxcar with those individual door tracks and then provide a door that the modeler could glue in whatever position they choose. After all, boxcar doors are left open quite often on the real stuff, right?

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Nice job!

Cheers, Jim

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Actually the railroads would prefer if the consignee would close and lock the doors when they're done unloading.

Open doors are more like to get pulled off by a passing train.

L231 Wrote:
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> Open doors are more like to get pulled off by a
> passing train.

On a model or the real thing?

The real thing. Slider doors have interlocking lips on the vertical edges. When left open a a open a poorly mat aimed door can be sucked off.

L231 Wrote:
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> The real thing. Slider doors have interlocking
> lips on the vertical edges. When left open a a
> open a poorly mat aimed door can be sucked off.

OK, thanks! I just hope nobody sucks the doors off my model....