CI&L 9157 had the National B-1 trucks which you so nicely crafted.
Are those trucks made from the slick engineering plastic, and if so how did you do so well attaching details?
Mont
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On Behalf Of Richard Scott Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2021 6:28 PM To: Steam Era Freight Cars <main@realstmfc.groups.io> Subject: [RealSTMFC] Monon 1937 AAR boxcar
Mont Switzer's 2017 Chicagoland RPM presentation motivated me to model a Monon boxcar. O-scale CIL 9157 began as an Intermountain kit. I scratchbuilt a new roof walk for it from styrene strips, and I replaced some of the kit's more fragile
styrene parts with brass equivalents. I painted the car with Polly Scale and MicroLux acrylics, and lettered it with Protocraft decals.
The Monon had 450 of these 1937 AAR boxcars, with road numbers 9000-9449. Pullman-Standard built them in 1941 and 1942, and all rode on National B-1 trucks. O-scale B-1s are hard to find so I "scratch-bashed" these from 1970s-vintage
Atlas Bettendorf trucks. The Atlas side-frames were molded from high-impact polystyrene so the conversion wasn't difficult. The attached photos show how I did it.
