Re: Non-Revenue Service Cars

Posted by Keith Hayes on Nov 13, 2022; 9:05pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Non-Revenue-Service-Cars-tp14179p18187.html

Making progress. I finished all the jewelry on both cars including coupler chain lift bars. For 080 I wanted to paint the fascia board white, so I did!

Sorry for the random photo. I realized that I am working with acrylic, so I could go ahead and spray the top coat. I used half rust and half brown,  which emulates Mike Trent's patented C&S freight car red recipe. Multiple light, thin coats is the key.

Here is where things stand now. I got the trucks on 068, but am still drilling holes and assembling the trucks for 080.

I liked the white fascia and was sorry it only lasted an hour or so. One more reason to model The South Park/ Clear Creek lines: they had styling paint and lettering schemes!

Postscript: based on the coupler height, I had to increase the car height about 0.10" over just mounting the car directly on to the trucks. I found some 0.10" styrene and cut a chunk. Not wanting the car to rock, I made some small buffers of 0.03" square stock and cemented these at the ends. The trucks would now be high enough to rotate about,  so I made a stop from 1/4" x 0.02" material and glued it to the side. Everything was sandes square, primed and painted black. The car now sits kind of high as the 1883 UP boxcars did.