As I've mentioned elsewhere here, I'm attempting to more firmly root my layout in the 1930s, and have sold quite a bit of stuff that's "too modern" for my layout. While there will be more to sell, I'm also re-painting and re-lettering a lot of other cars, mostly to get a more suitable lettering style for the period. In addition, there are many new cars, yet to be detailed, painted, and lettered, that will be added to the roster as time permits. I had originally intended to upgrade all cars, new and old, with at least a basic representation of the brake gear, but some of the re-paints shown below haven't yet received that upgrade, although all new ones where the brake gear is visible will be so done.
Below are some new cars, along with some ones that were already in service. The latter are shown first in their original paint and lettering, then again in their current garb. Manufacturers are as noted.
Here are some recent acquisitions, the first a Bowser PRR X-31A boxcar, with C-D-S lettering:
More Pennsy from Bowser:
Another Bowser car - I added the black ends and roof to an already-painted and lettered car:
This Bowser car was an undecorated kit, which I painted and then lettered with C-D-S dry transfers:
A Roundhouse/MDC auto boxcar, with slightly modified factory lettering:
A Branchline car, which I bought mainly for the 1936 BLT. date, although I've always liked that dollar sign herald:
This one is an Accurail car, again with factory lettering. I added the lines above and below the dimensional data, and some re-weigh/re-pack data:
Accurail again, with some weathering and the usual added details:
Another Accurail - the 1933 re-weigh date, plus a $6.00 price tag made this one easy to add:
This Accurail reefer was a gift from a fellow Gauge Member. I "revised" both the "BLT" and re-weigh dates, then used a brush to paint the car's hardware (ladders, grabs, etc.) in a manner more appropriate for the earlier timeframe:
This Athearn gondola was stripped of its original paint and lettering, then re-done with Floquil paint and C-D-S dry transfers. At $5.00 new, I couldn't resist:
This CNR gondola, in its more-correct-for-the-era black, was an unbuilt Westerfield kit which I picked up for about $12.00. It was minus the kit instructions, but an easy build nonetheless:
This Athearn hopper was a $4.00 "used" bargain, complete with Kadees. I stripped off the lettering and re-did it with C-D-S dry transfers:
Another hopper, this one from Train Miniature. It was supposed to be another L&NE car, but the disparity in size with the smaller Athearn car didn't look right, so I lettered it for my own EG&E:
This updated Varney car has been posted elsewhere here, but I include it here as part of my re-build programme:
This tank car is from Proto2000, built mostly "stock", although I did replace the sill steps, all grabirons, and the tank handrail with metal parts. The handrail stanchions are from an Athearn Mikado:
These last few cars are re-paints of models which I already had painted previously, although with more modern paint schemes. The first view is of the original paint and lettering, the second is the "revised" version -
Tichy rebuilt USRA single sheathed boxcar:
(looks like the wrong camera setting for this version)
ops:
Another Tichy car - before:
And after:
A Train Miniature car in the short-lived 1947 scheme:
And the same car in the more staid 1926 to mid'50s scheme:
I'm not sure who made this car, as there were no markings on the 3 that I bought used, as bodies only. Lettering, as on all of these repaints, is C-D-S, both "before" and "after":
Here's the same car, minus the '50s-era Lady liberty. You'll note that the car number has been changed, as the more modern car was erroneously lettered for a different class of car:
And last, at least in this batch, an extensively re-worked Athearn car, with the '40s-era white leaf:
And with the plainer pre-40s lettering. This is probably weathered a little too heavily for its 1934 BLT date, so I'll have to be careful to lighten up on the next 10 or 15 cars, which will be ones built in 1936-1938.
I know that these cars are less interesting than in their more modern lettering schemes, but I hope that they'll look more in keeping with my "late '30s" era.
Wayne
Below are some new cars, along with some ones that were already in service. The latter are shown first in their original paint and lettering, then again in their current garb. Manufacturers are as noted.
Here are some recent acquisitions, the first a Bowser PRR X-31A boxcar, with C-D-S lettering:
More Pennsy from Bowser:
Another Bowser car - I added the black ends and roof to an already-painted and lettered car:
This Bowser car was an undecorated kit, which I painted and then lettered with C-D-S dry transfers:
A Roundhouse/MDC auto boxcar, with slightly modified factory lettering:
A Branchline car, which I bought mainly for the 1936 BLT. date, although I've always liked that dollar sign herald:
This one is an Accurail car, again with factory lettering. I added the lines above and below the dimensional data, and some re-weigh/re-pack data:
Accurail again, with some weathering and the usual added details:
Another Accurail - the 1933 re-weigh date, plus a $6.00 price tag made this one easy to add:
This Accurail reefer was a gift from a fellow Gauge Member. I "revised" both the "BLT" and re-weigh dates, then used a brush to paint the car's hardware (ladders, grabs, etc.) in a manner more appropriate for the earlier timeframe:
This Athearn gondola was stripped of its original paint and lettering, then re-done with Floquil paint and C-D-S dry transfers. At $5.00 new, I couldn't resist:
This CNR gondola, in its more-correct-for-the-era black, was an unbuilt Westerfield kit which I picked up for about $12.00. It was minus the kit instructions, but an easy build nonetheless:
This Athearn hopper was a $4.00 "used" bargain, complete with Kadees. I stripped off the lettering and re-did it with C-D-S dry transfers:
Another hopper, this one from Train Miniature. It was supposed to be another L&NE car, but the disparity in size with the smaller Athearn car didn't look right, so I lettered it for my own EG&E:
This updated Varney car has been posted elsewhere here, but I include it here as part of my re-build programme:
This tank car is from Proto2000, built mostly "stock", although I did replace the sill steps, all grabirons, and the tank handrail with metal parts. The handrail stanchions are from an Athearn Mikado:
These last few cars are re-paints of models which I already had painted previously, although with more modern paint schemes. The first view is of the original paint and lettering, the second is the "revised" version -
Tichy rebuilt USRA single sheathed boxcar:
(looks like the wrong camera setting for this version)
ops:
Another Tichy car - before:
And after:
A Train Miniature car in the short-lived 1947 scheme:
And the same car in the more staid 1926 to mid'50s scheme:
I'm not sure who made this car, as there were no markings on the 3 that I bought used, as bodies only. Lettering, as on all of these repaints, is C-D-S, both "before" and "after":
Here's the same car, minus the '50s-era Lady liberty. You'll note that the car number has been changed, as the more modern car was erroneously lettered for a different class of car:
And last, at least in this batch, an extensively re-worked Athearn car, with the '40s-era white leaf:
And with the plainer pre-40s lettering. This is probably weathered a little too heavily for its 1934 BLT date, so I'll have to be careful to lighten up on the next 10 or 15 cars, which will be ones built in 1936-1938.
I know that these cars are less interesting than in their more modern lettering schemes, but I hope that they'll look more in keeping with my "late '30s" era.
Wayne
