Most everyone knows I will eventually model CSXT's Saginaw & Toledo Terminal Subs, when I finally get a basement, in the meantime I have been working on locomotives and cars. A while back CSX took some old woodchip cars and rebuilt them by cutting out the middle two bays and putting them back together.
I have been wanting to do the same and to that end, I purchased a pair of Walthers 7000 Cf. Greenville Woodchip cars. One in CSX and one in Seaboard System. Well I finaly got around to doing the Seaboard System car, and here it it. I call it the Board Em car.
Its not a hard car to do, just like the prototype, I cut the car near the ribs, cutting out the middle 6 pannels. After that I cut out the frame like wise but did it in such a way it is hidden behind a hopper bay. After sanding the peices square, I cut the supporting rib off of each end of the new car (both cuts were to the inside of the last rib), and sanded it smooth. Next step was to buy some Evergreen channel styreen strips and pant them yellow. I cut those to a scale 12' and glued they over the joint of the two halves.
The only minor stuff left to do was putty and sand the joints on the top rib, bottem rib and inside of each joint. Next I paintd the inside of the joints and outside ribs with engine black, along with painting out the old reporting marks. Then where the CSXT was going to go, I painted a retangle of grimy black to simulate where the car had previously been restencled CSXT when it was added to the fleet. And finaly was to give it its new CSXT and car number with a CSX decal set.
Here is what it started out as.
And now what it looks like.
Really looks like the real thing, bravo Matt.
