Composite Boxcars

[TheJoat]

Ever since Jean and I visited the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum in Strasburg, I've been facinated by composite boxcars.   Early ones were wood sheathed with a steel frame.   Later, they had steel ends.   In either case, no trussrods! 

 I can model this, I thought.

So, I got some Evergreen scribed styrene, some styrene strips, some wood, and some brass rod.   Pretty soon, I had my first model.

I liked it so much, that I built a second one.

Then, my railroad decided to modernize and get some steel ended cars.  So, I built one of them.  (Bob McCown, over at http://www.largescalecentral.com/ had produced some cast resin ends, to help me out.)

 

Modernization continues, but there's at least 5 more cars to come.  (That's how much material I've socked away!)

 

 

[ttrigg]

Looking good Bruce!  If you ever get tiered of looking at them you could always send them out to Rosebud Falls for a little rental revenue?

[S&G Rute of the Silver River]

There beautiful! On the (Im guessing here) pre-dreadnot (steel ended) car, what are the doors made of? Wounder if you are going to make a narrow-guage version of an Penn. X-29 box car? have fun!

[TheJoat]

Thanks.

On both cars, the doors are made of plastic.   Scribed siding, of course, on the first one.   Then for the steel ended version, I just took a sheet of plastic (I think it's .020") and put some .040 x .100 strips across it.   I'm going to make about 5 more of them; then it will be off to a version like the EBT all steel boxcar, as I'm trying to stay with a narrow gauge theme...

Although those boxcars do look interesting!

 

[underworld]

TheJoat Those are fantastic!!! Keep up the good work.

underworld