Model Railroading > Exact Rail PS5277 Waffle Box Freelance Patch

This ExactRail PS5277 got the freelance treatment and my normal modifications, train air line, cut levers. The trucks were swapped out for Athearn 70 ton with code .88 wheels along with the weigh data changed to match.
NCCR is my freelanced carrier, North Carolina Central. Freight cars are numbered based on their cubic feet capacity starting with the first 3 digits of the capacity, if rebuilt those first 3 digits are pushed one and the car starts with a "7".
-DJS

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Awesome work David...

Steve H...

The roof's look interesting with the light color framing. Were they repainted or why did the roofs look like that?

Cheers, Jim

SPDRGWfan Wrote:
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> The roof's look interesting with the light color
> framing. Were they repainted or why did the roofs
> look like that?

Within the past 15 years older boxcars have received this treatment. It is merely a thick seam sealer which is usually light gray although I've also seen black sealer used as well. It's usually applied to the roof seams, edges where roof meet the sides and sometimes over the door tracks. Even brand new cars have this sealer although it is applied very neatly...

Great looking model, but all in that photo looks great including the track work and rail color. Great attention to detail. Thanks for sharing.

ghemr Wrote:
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> Within the past 15 years older boxcars have
> received this treatment. It is merely a thick seam
> sealer which is usually light gray although I've
> also seen black sealer used as well. It's usually
> applied to the roof seams, edges where roof meet
> the sides and sometimes over the door tracks. Even
> brand new cars have this sealer although it is
> applied very neatly...

I've never noticed it but from where I have watched N-S trains going by in northern VA I generally don't see their roofs.

My wife and I moved last fall to a tiny town west of the Washington DC suburbs and a busy N-S mainline comes through town maybe a quarter of a mile from hour house - hear them all the time but as my luck would have it, seems I hardly ever see them when near the tracks. Is there a way I can sort of increase the odds? In the olden days I heard some used scanners.

Cheers, Jim

Great job. Very impressive in every way.

Warren

...life like... ...the wonders a proper weathering can do! 

Very nice work again! On this one, I notice the light colour on the wheels and trucks make them really jump out. Looks great.


Jim

Amazing work!

Thank you all, I take a bow lol

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