{"id":140,"date":"2016-04-15T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2021-06-25T04:28:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T04:28:23","slug":"a-nice-hawk-oo-boxcar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"A nice Hawk OO boxcar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hawk, in the years right before WWII, briefly produced a line of OO scale freight car kits. Of those, the boxcar is I think the nicest model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hawk-OO-boxcar-CBQ.jpg?resize=640%2C341&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hawk-OO-boxcar-CBQ.jpg?w=999&amp;ssl=1 999w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hawk-OO-boxcar-CBQ.jpg?resize=300%2C160&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hawk-OO-boxcar-CBQ.jpg?resize=768%2C409&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This example certainly is a nice one. It came to me either nearly completely built or nearly completely rebuilt, so I can&#8217;t claim to have done much more than put on trucks and add couplers and decals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like a lot how it came out with the Microscale HO decals, it looks great on the layout with such an accurate scheme. The trucks are Schorr and to mix things up a little I used a set of vintage Kadee No. 4 couplers &#8212; I have a supply of them and use them often on cars with a wood floor such as this one. A really nice &#8220;new&#8221; vintage car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawk, in the years right before WWII, briefly produced a line of OO scale freight car kits. Of those, the boxcar is I think the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hawk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hawk-OO-boxcar-CBQ.jpg?fit=999%2C532&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2921,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/2921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}