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Post by elgorahr on Feb 22, 2016 15:42:04 GMT -5
Now in revenue service. The cars have been assembled and weathered and the workshop has moved on to new projects. Seen eastbound in Eastern Ontario on 20 Feb 2016.
CP 209580 
TR 100178 (a pause while they work out getting that front wheel set back on the rails) 
GARD 627011 
NRLX 34042 (still needs some light weathering but the fleet is rather clean looking) 
For those in Eastern Ontario, these will be at the CHRA Rail O Rama, 12 and 13 Mar 2016. kingstonrailorama.wix.com/show www.kingstondivcrha.org/
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Post by elgorahr on Mar 17, 2016 16:04:00 GMT -5
More cars photographed on my Switching Montréal layout. Seen at the CHRA Rail O Rama in Kingston 13 Mar 2016. CPI 85641  Atlas NSC newsprint out of the box. Vallejo wash for weathering CRDX 20459  Intermountain ACF covered hopper. Model Master acrylic Burnt Umber and Raw Sienna dry brush for the rust with generic dry transfer reporting marks and Vallejo wash NRLX 34159  Athearn 2-bay covered hopper. Highball Graphics decal. No weathering as yet but the real cars are surprisingly clean. HS 30492  Athearn PS boxcar. Vallejo paint, Microscale decal lightly sanded to fade the CCR logos and patched reporting marks from stencil sheet. Artist acrylic wash, although it may need another round to grunge it up a bit more. |
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Post by spike on Mar 30, 2016 13:33:14 GMT -5
I love your cars. The Ciment Quebec cars are often set off for the plant in Delson. The QGRY ex CP paper cars give me a chuckle. I had a conductor who looked like Boss Hogg. He worked well into his 70s. The paper cars still had the high handbrakes. Boss used to complain about having to climb up to get the "sky brake".
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Post by elgorahr on Apr 1, 2016 11:56:46 GMT -5
Spike
Thanks. I am having fun working out the various levels of weathering; the almost new through the rust buckets. The challenge with the QGRY paper cars is the wide variations in patching, from simple reporting marks to painting half the car. And then as I delved into the research I was horrified to learn that the vast majority of the fleet were Hawker Siddeley smooth sides which I find to be the least attractive. On the plus side, by the time I came to that point, the local hobby shop had sold out of the Proto 1000s so I will have to live with the NSC smooth sides. More to come.
Bob
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