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 Posted - July 02 2014 : 11:45:32 AM
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This is a "generic- named" private industry box car I made for my Minnesota-themed railroad, meant to represent a furniture-manufacturing or cabinetry company:
I used Model Master Dark Tan for the body color; IM wheels and Kadee-clones, which the existing original box car (old Mantua) already had been fitted with.
This same theme can be modified for other parts of the country- just change the geographic portion of the name to "west coast/ Northeast/ Tidelands, etc.
Siouxlake Ron
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Posted - July 02 2014 : 12:24:20 PM
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I have to say, it does look like something Tyco would've made in the '70s thru '90s. Pretty good car in general but very generic much like the Tyco cars and that's not a bad thing at all because I actually like Tyco freight and passenger cars because they just flat out look cool.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - July 03 2014 : 10:47:49 AM
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| Looks to me like you've got a talent for graphic arts.
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Posted - July 03 2014 : 11:36:28 AM
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You've got a funny reporting mark there... they're supposed to be 4 letters only for private owners, except for Mexican ones which ended with 2 X's from the 50's thru the 80's... I should stop. It's a nice boxcar 
--CRC
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