Boxcar Interior Door Color
On some Intermountain, Kadee and Branchline boxcars with sliding doors that I built, I have painted the interior of the sides to look like wood or plywood, and the floors a dirtier similar color. The interiors are visible with the doors open.
Todd Sullivan
On some Intermountain, Kadee and Branchline boxcars with sliding doors that I built, I have painted the interior of the sides to look like wood or plywood, and the floors a dirtier similar color. The interiors are visible with the doors open.
Todd Sullivan
https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns493
N&W car with the marks and number stenciled high on the right side:
https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2888
N&W car with the marks and number on the (Superior) door:
https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2912
David Thompson
You’re partly off the hook, Todd. Most resin kits don’t end up with operating doors so no interior decals required, but we need to speak to you about those trucks and the markings on the air reservoirs . . .
Schuyler
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 2:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Boxcar Interior Door Color
Great information!!
However, I don't think I'm going to start decalling the reporting marks on the inside of my model boxcars! I don't decal the trucks and underframe and insides of doors, either!
Todd (there are limits!) Sullivan.
. . . but we need to speak to you about those trucks and the markings on the air reservoirs . . .
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A looong time ago, when I was still working, EMD used old box cars as mobile warehouses and these kind of floated around the plant as needed. I do not remember the exterior reporting marks…some secondhand outfit or other…but inside the doors they were marked in the L&N 96xxx series IIRC. I did not have the freight knowledge I have now but I now recognize them as double sheathed rebuilds. They caught my attention because I thought them neat and unusual. I was very pleased when Sunshine offered them many years later.
Bill Darnaby
Schuyler,
You’ll have to re-send your message to Todd off-list because he’s been banned from RealSTMFC for his blasphemy (not decalling the inside of his box cars)!!
Regards,
-Jeff
P.S. Just kidding!!!!
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 12:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Boxcar Interior Door Color
You’re partly off the hook, Todd. Most resin kits don’t end up with operating doors so no interior decals required, but we need to speak to you about those trucks and the markings on the air reservoirs . . .
Schuyler
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Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 2:04 PM
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Boxcar Interior Door Color
Great information!!
However, I don't think I'm going to start decalling the reporting marks on the inside of my model boxcars! I don't decal the trucks and underframe and insides of doors, either!
Todd (there are limits!) Sullivan.
Schuyler Larrabee wrote:. . . but we need to speak to you about those trucks and the markings on the air reservoirs . . .I only do the reservoir lettering when the reservoir is pretty visible, and not always even then -- on the foundation that prototype photos usually show reservoirs VERY dirty and all but impossible to discern lettering.Tony Thompson
Jim Gates
It seems that a lot more humor has been posted here and in other Web haunts over the past 2-3 weeks. Do you suppose we are rediscovering humor and finding that being a bit goofy now and then is OK? I mean, we don't always have to be politically correct and 100% accurate, do we?
Todd Sullivan
(with fingers in ears)