For
Throwback Thursday I’m posting this photo of my new O‑scale Santa Fe express boxcar,
a recent pandemic project. It started
out as an automobile car that the late Jim Pierce built from a vintage Athearn
kit. I bought it from Jim and ran it for thirty years before rebuilding it as an Fe‑24 express car.
During the rebuild I stripped
the car’s silk-screened sides, replaced its rough stamped metal doors and
roof walks with scratchbuilt parts, and added bracket grab irons and brake hoses. I painted it with Scalecoat and Floquil
enamels, and lettered it with Protocraft decals. This livery was applied to Santa Fe’s 300 Fe‑24 express cars from 1943 until 1958.
I
have an album featuring some of my freight car models on the first page of our photo
section. These cars are all O scale and
include everything from scratchbuilds to modified RTR
cars. I hope you will enjoy looking
through them.
