Scratch built Sundays

Welcome to Another Edition of "Scratch-built Sundays"

L&N 50 foot double door boxcar #99196.

This is an early Athearn Pacific HO Menzies boxcar that was missing several detail items and needed quite a bit of repair.  I first stripped the car,  then the paint, and repainted and lettered it for the L&N.  It has been detailed with cut levers, brake details, air hoses, and it has a load of CELOTEX panels inside.  This care was rebuilt with Proto Hi-Rail trucks and couplers to run on my 3-rail layout.  I like to rescue older scale O cars that have been mistreated or are considered only for parts and then update them and rebuild into nice cars for my layout or even for friends.

40 foot double sheathed Union Pacific Wooden Boxcar

This is an early kit car that was in a box of derelict O scale trains I bought about 2 years ago.  I held onto it with the hope I could someday fix it up and use it or sell it.  I got the idea for this car while reading one of my books on the KATY railroad.  I found a picture of a Katy switcher at the Wichita Falls freight house with just such a car behind it.  Since I had some older Union Pacific Decals and time on my hands I decided this was the right detailing for this old car.  It has some more details added and has a "K" type brake under it.  It is an O scale car with Monarch type E operating couplers.  There are air hoses, brake details, and cut levers added on.  The trucks are early Bettendorf trucks which are sprung die-cast with steel wheels.  This car would have been found on the Union Pacific up through the early 1950's before being scrapped.  Many did receive AD type brake systems after WWII.