Scratch-built Sunday's

The first boxcar, the Green Bay and Western outside braced car, was scratchbuilt using some wood and brass wire materials I had in my parts supply.  It has Selley Finishes parts, Keil-Line details, and Scalecraft Bettendorf trucks.  I used photographs of these cars in service on the Green Bay and Western as well as photographs of similar cars in use on the Milwaukee Road.  The GB&W cars were copies of a large Milwaukee Road order made in 1927.  GB&W lettered several of these for the KGB&W which was the portion of the Green Bay and Western east of Green Bay to Kewaunee and the car ferry docks.  They were used in paper shipments as well as early canned goods out of Green Bay and even were used to haul packing moss from western Wisconsin.  Most of these cars disappeared in the 1960's, replaced by new all steel cars.

The second boxcar is a model of a Monon boxcar similar to the ones I saw from our farm outside of Campbellsburg, Indiana.  It is an All-Nation boxcar that was in very bad shape and required considerable rebuilding and detailing to even look like a boxcar!!  I again used photographs I found online as well as in several books I have.  I used Selley Finishes, Keil Line detailing parts, and brass wire to complete the car as seen in the photograph.  The decals are Walthers decals.  This is a 3-rail boxcar for my Proto Hi-rail layout. 

The third boxcar is a model of an Union Pacific - Oregon Short Line boxcar that I made from an Athearn boxcar that I bought at a train show for $3.00.  Again it was another rescue of a badly worn out model that  required considerable rebuilding to even become a nice model.  Here I used Selley Finishes, Keil-Line details, brass wire, and Plastruct parts to complete this car.  I used several photographs and some information from Union Pacific videos I had for the model .  The decals are Champion decals.  This is also a Model for my Proto Hi-Rail 3-rail layout. 

One note of interest,  I often refer to George Elwood's very excellent Fallen Flags website for pictures of models to build for my layouts.  I would recommend it highly to those who want to model prototype trains.