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.