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Posted: Sun Mar 11th, 2018 11:52 am |
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Posted: Sun Mar 11th, 2018 02:18 pm |
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Daniel Beresford
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Over the last couple of evenings I've started working on weathering the CoG boxcar,
using prototype photographs as a guide.
Next, the progress so far on replicating it.
At this stage it's had a base rust colours applied with acrylic paint,
then the rust built up with oil paint,
and then weathering chalks added to the still wet oil paint.

The next steps for this car is to seal the work so far with Dullcote once the oil paint has dried,
then hit the whole car with a wash of isopropyl alcohol and india ink,
to dull down the shine on the car sides.
____________________ -Dan
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Posted: Sun Mar 11th, 2018 08:22 pm |
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Michael M
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Dan,
On those converted boxcars for carrying powder how where they unloaded?
Can't see for sure but there doesn't look like there were any dump gates on the underside.
I was planning on building a couple of wood-sided boxcars modified for carrying salt with some hatches on the roof.
____________________ Michael
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Nye, Inyo & Esmeralda Railroad
https://www.flickr.com/photos/183715370@N03/albums/72157710477887657/
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Posted: Sun Mar 11th, 2018 09:15 pm |
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Daniel Beresford
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Michael, the crews opened the boxcar doors and then went at them with shovels, I believe.
Backbreaking work, I'm sure!
____________________ -Dan
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Posted: Sun Mar 11th, 2018 10:42 pm |
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Steven B
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Some mills or storage facilities receiving grain (and of course other commodities),
if their destinations regularly received 40' boxcars in the 50s, 60s and into the 70s,
they had tilt beds to help dump the cars.
I am sure that they had to be finished off with shovels.
There's a picture in Tony Thompson's SP boxcar book of one in use.
I have seen others too,
maybe in a GN book and I think at Albina Yard (Portland) Oregon on the UP.
40' boxcars were used extensively for grain and mineral shipments well into the 1970s,
before there were enough covered hoppers.
It was the last great use of the ubiquitous 40' single door boxcar (my favorite car).
I found a bunch of unused paper "grain" doors,
at an abandoned mineral plant in Mina, NV in the 1980s after the tracks were torn up.
They had (if I remember correctly) metal stiffener bands imbedded in the paper.
These plants shipped late into the 1970s.
____________________ Steven B.
Humboldt & Toiyabe Rwy
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Posted: Mon Mar 12th, 2018 01:32 pm |
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Posted: Mon Mar 12th, 2018 05:30 pm |
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Daniel Beresford
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Nice, thanks for the advice!
I think I'll go back to washes of watercolour paints then. 
____________________ -Dan
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Posted: Mon Mar 12th, 2018 06:59 pm |
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