More Creations when left alone....

This is a model of a rebuilt G22b gondola from the Pennsylvania railroad.  The car is scratchbuilt from Wood, Plastruct, brass wire, and various parts from Keil-Line, Walthers, and Scale City Design.  The trucks are Wathers die-cast Symington sprung trucks and it is equipped with Hi-rail couplers to operate on my 3-rail layout.   The G22b gondolas were one of the earliest 100-ton cars and served the steel industry that the Pennsylvania was famous for in its day.  I used Scalecoat paints and a variety of Champion and Microscale decals to finish the car.  It was coated in Testors Dullcote to complete the finish.  The load is steel gas pipes from one of the steel manufacturers found along the Pennsy road.

This car is a model of an early Union Pacific 50-foot PS-1 boxcar that has been upgrades with mid-1950's modern lettering.  The car is carrying a load of CELOTEX sheets coming from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  The car is a former Athearn kit that was rebuilt with new parts for the brake system as well as improved paint and lettering.  I used Plastruct, Keil-Line, and Wlathers parts to improve this car and improve the details also.  There are cut levers, air hoses, as well as complete brake gear.   Once the CELOTEX plant was completed in 1957, carloads of their construction materials was shipped out by rail over the DSS&A and the Milwaukee Road as well as the C&NW.  This car will operate on my 2-rail layout. 

Chicago & Northwestern Passenger

Here we have a nice model of a Chicago and Northwestern "400" coach in Armour yellow for its assignment to the City of Portland streamliner.  C&NW assigned 8 coaches to City of Portland service.  In later years after November 1955 these coaches were often found in service on "400" trains throughout the C&NW system.  I purchased this kit at the St. Patrick's Day train show in Chicago a few years ago and finally decided to complete the car for my fantasy "400" train on my 3 rail layout.  I have used Keil-Line, Selley Custom Finishes, Scale City Design, and Walthers parts to complete the car along with several fabricated items I have made.  I used blueprints and photographs of these City of Portland cars to complete the interiors and the exterior paint schemes.  The blueprints helped with the interior layout, especially with the smoking lounges, which were made into regular lounges when in City of Portland service.  The paint is Scalecoat and Floquil with Champion and Microscale decals to complete the exterior.  Trucks are All-Nation with Hi-Rail wheel sets.  Hope you like the car and thanks for visiting my blog today.  Bill

Lackawanna Baggage Car.

Here we have a Lackawanna 60 foot baggage car done in the early "Phoebe Snow" paint scheme.  This is another Walthers kit that was found in a box of badly worn out O scale passenger cars.  I have always found the Lackawanna a neat road, but never had the chance to model it until now.  I took the old Walthers car and took off all the old paint and primered the car prior to completing it.  I used several items to complete the car with Walthers, Scale City Design, Keil-Line, and Selley Custom Finishes parts.  I used K&S brass wire and sheet brass to fabricate several items for the car.  The paint is Scalecoat and the decals are Champion Lackawanna decals.  I used an old photograph of one of these cars to help me with the details as well as the paint. 
Hope you like it. 

Baltimore & Ohio O-27N Gondola

This is a recent model I built of an upgraded B&O O-27n gondola with a load of steel girders.  This car is scratchbuilt using parts from Scale City Design, Selley Custom Finishes, Keil-Line, Waltherss, and K&S brass for brake parts and some of the detail work.  I found myself a little short on Gondolas for hauling materials to the mines I plan to model.  SInce I model the late 1950's, I felt such a model would be appropriate due to the construction of various industries in the Upper Peninsula during that time frame. 
Hope you like the model!