With the recent feedback on grain doors you all helped with I took an Intermountain Santa Fe boxcar kit I had and added grain doors.  The kit is factory paint, all I did was to add a ATSF reweigh station, light weight and a repack stencil.  Before adding the roof I cut some 2” x 8” HO wood strips I had and stained a few for some variation.  Kadee steel roof walk replaced the kit’s supplied one.  The doors are held on with double sided scrap booking tape. 

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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

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On Mar 30, 2022, at 1:06 PM, Charlie Duckworth <omahaduck@...> wrote:



With the recent feedback on grain doors you all helped with I took an Intermountain Santa Fe boxcar kit I had and added grain doors.  The kit is factory paint, all I did was to add a ATSF reweigh station, light weight and a repack stencil.  Before adding the roof I cut some 2” x 8” HO wood strips I had and stained a few for some variation.  Kadee steel roof walk replaced the kit’s supplied one.  The doors are held on with double sided scrap booking tape. 

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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

On Mar 30, 2022, at 7:17 AM, hubert mask <maskisland@...> wrote:

Great job Charlie.  I am getting grain harvest flash backs. O Keene Okarshi.

Hubert 

On Mar 30, 2022, at 1:06 PM, Charlie Duckworth <omahaduck@...> wrote:



With the recent feedback on grain doors you all helped with I took an Intermountain Santa Fe boxcar kit I had and added grain doors.  The kit is factory paint, all I did was to add a ATSF reweigh station, light weight and a repack stencil.  Before adding the roof I cut some 2” x 8” HO wood strips I had and stained a few for some variation.  Kadee steel roof walk replaced the kit’s supplied one.  The doors are held on with double sided scrap booking tape. 

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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

With the recent feedback on grain doors you all helped with I took an Intermountain Santa Fe boxcar kit I had and added grain doors.  The kit is factory paint, all I did was to add a ATSF reweigh station, light weight and a repack stencil.  Before adding the roof I cut some 2” x 8” HO wood strips I had and stained a few for some variation.  Kadee steel roof walk replaced the kit’s supplied one.  The doors are held on with double sided scrap booking tape. 

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Charlie Duckworth 

Nelson
After loading the doors would be sealed as to keep moisture out of the car.  I’m going to use this car as one that’s been recently coopered and when my local pulls the loads they’ll then spot this car under the spout for the next load.  They’ll also place empties for coopering where this car sat. So it just to add more realism to my local’s work. 
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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

They look very nice.  I have used scribed sheet and scale lumber to make mine following the information provided by Sunshine Models. I haven't painted them, at least not yet.   I would like to find some photos that show how the wood grain doors were stored. I have  thought about installing some of the door sections in a box car model although so many  models have the doors cast integral with the rest of the model.   Do you have color pictures that show the variation in the color of boards?  Recently I painted some wood boxes/crates.  I took a paint stirring stick from The Home Depot and had them scan it so I now have a latex paint I call "new wood."

Jared Harper
Athens, GA

Very nice car and doors, Charlie. The only thing missing is the RR ownership stenciling, and maybe those new boards are too clean.

 

This scene got me thinking about grain door and operation. Some modelers run grain loads with the car doors open, but I thought that doors were closed and sealed before the cars moved, so grain doors would only be seen after the car was spotted at an elevator in preparation for loading and during loading. What’s the prototype practice for moving grain in boxcars?

 

Nelson Moyer