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gtws00
 

I modified a Red Caboose 42 ft flat car to more closely resemble a Canada Souther Railway in the 1950"s. The rivets were removed, and stake pocket holes plugged. New Archer rivets were applied. I modified the Red Caboose stake pockets by cutting the bottom half on an angle to look more like the CASO ones. New stake pocket holes were drilled using a brass jig I made for uniform placement.
The underframe had Tichy AB brakes installed and piping. Stynylrez Neutral Yellow primer was applied to the sides, ends and underframe sprayed PolyScale Mineral Red. The deck was left Neutral Yellow as a base for the wood tone. A gloss coat of Vallejo Mecha Gloss was sprayed on and Abeedeen Car Shop decals applied and coated with Vallejo Satin. A light weathering of dust and mud was applied to the U/F and sides. I used various washes of Black and Browns to weather the deck. Some Pan Pastels were brushed on after the washes dried. A lumber that a friend provided me was installed per ARA loading guidelines using strip wood for the dunnage to attach it to the car
George Toman

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O Fenton Wells
 

Well done George, Love the weathering and the load.
Fenton

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 10:07 AM gtws00 via groups.io <gtws00=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:
I modified a Red Caboose 42 ft flat car to more closely resemble a Canada Souther Railway in the 1950"s. The rivets were removed, and stake pocket holes plugged. New Archer rivets were applied. I modified the Red Caboose stake pockets by cutting the bottom half on an angle to look more like the CASO ones. New stake pocket holes were drilled using a brass jig I made for uniform placement.
The underframe had Tichy AB brakes installed and piping. Stynylrez Neutral Yellow primer was applied to the sides, ends and underframe sprayed PolyScale Mineral Red. The deck was left Neutral Yellow as a base for the wood tone. A gloss coat of Vallejo Mecha Gloss was sprayed on and Abeedeen Car Shop decals applied and coated with Vallejo Satin. A light weathering of dust and mud was applied to the U/F and sides. I used various washes of Black and Browns to weather the deck. Some Pan Pastels were brushed on after the washes dried. A lumber that a friend provided me was installed per ARA loading guidelines using strip wood for the dunnage to attach it to the car
George Toman



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Nelson Moyer
 

Pristine work as always, George. The deck is particularly well done, as the weathering patterns are entirely random with no repeating patterns.

 

Nelson Moyer

 

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I modified a Red Caboose 42 ft flat car to more closely resemble a Canada Souther Railway in the 1950"s. The rivets were removed, and stake pocket holes plugged. New Archer rivets were applied. I modified the Red Caboose stake pockets by cutting the bottom half on an angle to look more like the CASO ones. New stake pocket holes were drilled using a brass jig I made for uniform placement.
The underframe had Tichy AB brakes installed and piping. Stynylrez Neutral Yellow primer was applied to the sides, ends and underframe sprayed PolyScale Mineral Red. The deck was left Neutral Yellow as a base for the wood tone. A gloss coat of Vallejo Mecha Gloss was sprayed on and Abeedeen Car Shop decals applied and coated with Vallejo Satin. A light weathering of dust and mud was applied to the U/F and sides. I used various washes of Black and Browns to weather the deck. Some Pan Pastels were brushed on after the washes dried. A lumber that a friend provided me was installed per ARA loading guidelines using strip wood for the dunnage to attach it to the car
George Toman

Bud Rindfleisch
 

George,
    Very nice! It takes a lot for me to get enthused about flatcars, but this one fills the bill. Love the lumber load and stakes as well.
    Bud Rindfleisch
Tim O'Connor
 


excellent work -- Getting tiny drill holes lined up perfectly is not easy. :-)

On 1/14/2023 10:07 AM, gtws00 via groups.io wrote:

I modified a Red Caboose 42 ft flat car to more closely resemble a Canada Souther Railway in the 1950"s. The rivets were removed, and stake pocket holes plugged. New Archer rivets were applied. I modified the Red Caboose stake pockets by cutting the bottom half on an angle to look more like the CASO ones. New stake pocket holes were drilled using a brass jig I made for uniform placement.
The underframe had Tichy AB brakes installed and piping. Stynylrez Neutral Yellow primer was applied to the sides, ends and underframe sprayed PolyScale Mineral Red. The deck was left Neutral Yellow as a base for the wood tone. A gloss coat of Vallejo Mecha Gloss was sprayed on and Abeedeen Car Shop decals applied and coated with Vallejo Satin. A light weathering of dust and mud was applied to the U/F and sides. I used various washes of Black and Browns to weather the deck. Some Pan Pastels were brushed on after the washes dried. A lumber that a friend provided me was installed per ARA loading guidelines using strip wood for the dunnage to attach it to the car
George Toman

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Tim O'Connor
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gtws00
 

Tim thanks
Here is a photo of my simple brass drilling jig for the stake pockets.
George Toman

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Doug Polinder
 

Dang that car and load are impressive. Thanks George for sharing.
Paul Doggett
 

George 

that’s a great looking model with a very nice load.

Paul Doggett
Ted Larson
 

Thanks Much,
Except for the lower number of stake pockets, the prototype photo that George sent me looks very much like one of the available S scale flat cars (Rex diecast);
http://www.nasg.org/Gallery/reports/scale/cars/manuf_rr/indexRex_EngineeringFlat_Car.php

I added this to my list of prototypes that closely match an S scale model.
I am interested in news of any other news of 42' or 46' fishbelly flatcars.  
TNX
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Ted Larson
trainweb.org/mhrr/        --------        NASG.org        --------        https://www.nasg.org/Clubs/RegionsMinnesota.php
GN in 1965

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