Clinchfield 60' Boxcar

[dti406]

Below is a 60' Clinchfield 60' Boxcar that was one of two that serviced a Kingsport, TN paper mill.



This car was a little more involved than just paint and decals. The prototype was a Greenville Car with two 8' sliding doors. I checked the door sizes of my Atlas cars and found that the door was a good fit. So I ordered the Atlas doors along with the door tracks, carved off the plug doors from an old Robbins Rails/A-line 60' Greenville Boxcar and replaced with the Atlas components.

I also changed the kits 41' wheelbase to the 46' of the prototype and added a walkover platform that I had in the scrap box.

Painted the car with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals.

Thanks for looking!

Rick J

[icghogger]

Nice Job, Rick, all that hard work really paid off!!

[brian]

Nice work

[m a y o r 79]

Very nice!

[iomalley]

I got a whole pile of those con-cor cars, never thought to give a thought to mixing it up with slider doors!

Any idea who else had the Greenville 60' with sliders? CRR only had 2!

[dti406]

Sean,

By removing the rivits and cutting weld lines in the car you can replicate the 4 Thrall XAPd cars owned by the Reading, although the doors would have to be scratchbuilt Superior Panel Doors, the NKP also had cars with two sliders, I would have to check if they were Greenville's or Thralls and numbers on the cars.

Rick

[along]

Nice job. Did they come with roofwalks or was that your choice to model the car that way. Overall now Id like to own one. Andrew

[dti406]

The car was delivered in 1965 with a roofwalk, it may have been removed later but I modeled it in the as delivered condition.

Sean, the Reading also had 7 XAPc cars that were made by ACF with welded panels, a deeper side sill, but not the Atlas car with the indented panels. The PRR had a number of similar cars made by ACF and homebuilt with sliders. These would be in their X59 and X61 classes, the subclass determined the door type.

Rick J