{"id":111,"date":"2016-12-28T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2021-06-25T17:38:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T17:38:24","slug":"a-modern-boxcar-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"A modern boxcar, finished"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back a few months ago I posted on a boxcar that was nearly done<\/a>, which is finally done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recapping what I did, I had many years ago (in high school, probably) purchased an Athearn 80\u2019 boxcar body thinking I could do something with the sides to make a nice OO model. Subsequently, I did nothing for years \u2026 but then the frame you see also came to me in the OO Inventory. The body was missing from a model Bill Johan built. What to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a lot of pondering I finally put the body to use, built it to match the frame, and ultimately opted to letter it for my Orient, matching the recent Diesel projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The frame shows when Johann worked on the model, he marked his models well. I will mark the body inside, although pretty obviously I built it. Originally the car body Johann used must have been orange (ATSF reefer?) and I left the orange paint on the extended draft gears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A final note on the topic — I think I have got the modern thing worked out of my system for a while! I like getting these models out and running them, they look more like the trains I grew up with and run well. But I have no further modern projects planned as of now. What I have out now are a group of steam locomotive basket cases, I have a NWSL quartering jig coming, too many locomotive projects stuck for lack of drivers, but also really all the parts I need to get them going. Will be an exciting and worthy project to get moving forward on them this coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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