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 Posted - August 02 2014 : 4:04:43 PM
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Well, this time, I took an old Athearn BB (what else!) covered gondola, lettered for the Southern Ry, and repainted it/ relettered it as belonging to a fictitious "Metropolitan Belt Line Transfer Ry." that might exist (as does the Minnesota Commercial RR in Mpls-St. Paul) in a large urban area to move loaded freight cars of various sorts between one railroad's end point and another's over a short distance, often between rail yards or local industrial areas.
I know there are several "Belt Line" railroad names floating around, so I made mine fairly "generic" with the addition of the name "Metropolitan".
The original:
There is nothing exceptional (other than the painstaking process of placing individual decal letters on the car sides) about this build, except that I noticed there were vertical ladder rails at on alternate side of the car at the end, but no rungs. I took .040 solid rod styrene and used a flat-bladed plier to compress each end of a rod segment, to "suggest" the flattened bolt hole connection point, which I then squared off and glued on the vertical rails of the molded-on ladder. Of course, there is a scale issue, as 87 x .040 = 3.48 inches in diameter, and you would need one helluva big mitt to grip that bar! . Next time, I will use CA cement and smaller piano wire that scales more appropriately. But- at the 3 foot rule- things look okay to me.
Siouxlake Ron
Next up- another "famous company name" fictitious box car.
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Posted - August 02 2014 : 7:21:57 PM
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Very Nice job! 
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Posted - August 04 2014 : 12:29:13 AM
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| I'll second Walt on that.
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 Posted - August 05 2014 : 08:40:40 AM
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Ron,
Very well and realistically done! The lettering is straight and looks like silk screening by a model manufacturer. Good work with the styrene rod.
I'm intrigued that you used this particular attractive yellow formula as it has an "industrial appearance" and stirs up memories for me. During the 1970s a very similar shade of yellow was utilized by a commercial trucking company in the Tampa Bay area that had a large fleet of open top gondola styled trailers. They serviced the Port of Tampa alongside Seaboard Coast Line hoppers and gons as well.
Be creative, share and enjoy the hobby :-)
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Posted - August 05 2014 : 7:42:55 PM
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Tony:
The color is a Krylon Gloss spray paint called "Bright Idea". I was originally planning to use it on one of my Plymouth MDT's to represent the color of corn- a paler sort of yellow, but had trouble with it being applied over standard Wal-Mart gray primer. I later learned about using flat white for the very light colors (light blues, light yellows, etc.) as a primer base. When I did so on this model, it came out very well. Lesson learned!
Ron
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