NE&NY RR boxcar Scratchbuild

[Bernd]

Looking good Micheal.

Bernd

[GeorgeD]

Nice, neat work, Mike.

George

[ReadingBob]

I'm in the back row but I'm paying attention to this build.  Very nice! 

[KentuckySouthern]

Just took my seat, good work going on here! 

[Jerry]

Very nice Michael.  Glad to see you building here.

Jerry

[Michael Hohn]

Thank you Dave, Philip, Mike, James, Bernd, George, Bob, Karl, and Jerry.

Dave, I am not using any angle irons, so I don't know what you mean.

Mike, I'm not doing any brake gear.  There were several ways of doing the brake system even before automatic brakes, and I have no information for these specific cars.

Mike

[deemery]

Thank you Dave, Philip, Mike, James, Bernd, George, Bob, Karl, and Jerry.

Dave, I am not using any angle irons, so I don't know what you mean.

Mike, I'm not doing any brake gear.  There were several ways of doing the brake system even before automatic brakes, and I have no information for these specific cars.

Mike

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dave

[Michael Hohn]

Dave,

I understand now.  Each is actually two pieces of styrene

Mike

[ACL1504]

Mike,

Getting caught up here and it is great to see a scratch build from styrene. Looking good for sure.

Tom

[Michael Hohn]

Thanks Tom.  I enjoy working with wood more than styrene, but styrene is better for box cars. The scribing is not so oversized and the edges are crisper, more in scale.

Mike

[robert goslin]

Howdy Mike. Great to see you have started this thread here.  Always enjoy seeing your builds.
Nice save on the roof, without having to remove the old wooden one.
Plenty, & enough detail underneath.

Looking forward to seeing the painting.

[Dave Buchholz]

Although I'm not commenting much, I'm keeping an eye on progress. Mike. Great work. You are a master of detail.

[Michael Hohn]

Thank you, Rob and Dave.

I'll have an update later today . . . maybe.

Mike

[Michael Hohn]

Here we are, two days later, with my brief update.

All details have been added:



Next: on to the paint shop.

Mike

[deemery]

Looking at this a bit more closely, the 2 truss rods half-way in from each side strikes me as unusual.  No Air Brake on this car?

(Speaking of truss rods, I dug out a plastic baggage car kit with clunky cast-in truss rods.  I cut those off and will replace with more-to-scale rods.  I also carved off the UC valve so the look more closely matches the older brake gear on my Ambroid build.)

dave