Gee, Vic, I was going to say that it looked like it might be around 6 inches too wide.
Seriously, though, I think it looks great! One of these days I'm going to work up enough courage to try scratch-building a car. The closest I've come is bashing an N-scale Bachmann stock car into a flat car. Basically, all I did was add scale boards to the top of the chassis... Below is a (very) blurry photo of it carrying The Box on my old layout.
And why exactly do they bother putting so much detail on the
bottoms of rolling stock, anyway? I mean, the only time that
I see the grain of the boards on the bottom side of the floor is when I pick the car up and actually look under the thing...and even then I usually see MADE IN CHINA stamped prototypically on it...
Say, real boxcars don't have MADE IN CHINA stamped on them, do they? Has anyone ever thought to look?