{"id":147,"date":"2015-12-25T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2024-01-31T15:59:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T22:59:52","slug":"touching-up-a-rutland-boxcar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Touching up a Rutland boxcar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This model was rebuilt originally by the late Bill Johann, came to me second or third hand after his ownership. It is an Eastern car that was nicely built up, I believe likely lettered with decals over painted over printed sides, then painted over yet again and lettered for the Rutland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A very nice article on building models of this car in HO is online<\/a>, and opens by noting that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pullman Standard’s PS-1 box Car is THE iconic piece of rolling stock that defined the vision Rutland Railway president Gardiner Caverly laid out for the railroad in the early 1950’s, that of a modern, streamlined, service-oriented gateway that would rapidly move shippers products to market.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Bill Johann was an American OO operator and over the years updated his layout to the modern era; I own a number of these models today. Based on the markings I believe he probably converted this car to Rutland in 1971 and then modified it to a more modern appearance in 1994; when it came to me it was on roller bearing trucks and had no roof walk and an ACI label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rutland shut down in 1963 and the use of ACI labels began in 1968, so this was problematic to my eye. But such a nice car, I did want to run it. What I did was paint over the ACI labels, add a roof walk, and put it on Schorr trucks. The roof walk should be painted the color of the roof but I opted for black (to match the ends) and made it from two HO roof walks spliced together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not quite a PS-1 boxcar but it is a very good stand in for this iconic car, I am enjoying running it on the layout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE: The model has been updated further, see this article.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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