PED ...Does the railroad (or car owner) ever try to clean up these cars?...
The cars in the prototype photo which I posted were never, as far as I'm aware, cleaned. They were in phosphate service, and don't recall ever seeing them clean other than when they were new.I'm modelling the late '30s, when there were a lot of older cars still in service, and while I have a few fairly heavily weathered ones, most simply show signs of being "used", while a few represent almost new cars.Lots of grime and road dust on these, but otherwise in good shape and well maintained (note the recent re-weigh and updated re-pack data)...
...while this one, the prototype built in October of 1939, just made it into my operating era...
...with just a little road dust to make it "not quite new".
Wayne
Besides commodity, I try to weather based also on the age of the car. Earlier I went over-board with weathering and realized that less is more. This is a challenge in weathering since I used to view cars as blank canvases.
I am curious. Does the railroad (or car owner) ever try to clean up these cars? I suspect not.
Paul D
N scale Washita and Santa Fe RailroadSouthern Oklahoma circa late 70's
Depends on what sort of service the car is in, as that white weathering is from load spillage.
Chris van der Heide
My Algoma Central Railway Modeling Blog
I keep all my weathering pretty minimal. Even if it looks like a real car, like the one in your photograph, it does not look right on the layout.
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Every so often I go all-out, but I never seem to like it that much.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I don't see as many over-weathered freight car models as I used to, but there are some. There are also some over-weathered real freight cars, too, but it's difficult to say that they're over-weathered.I thought that I may have overdone it on this car (based on a photo)...
...but many of the others from the same class of cars....
...make mine look under-weathered.
If the car in your photo had been a model, done to match the one in the photo, I probably would have considered the weathering too "choppy-looking", as if the painter was afraid to make any long, vertical brush strokes.
As they say, "A prototype for everything.".
I wouldn't weather a car this way. Too much paint using a dry brush technique would be my guess.
I guess I need to consider what I "know", it's not a model, it from a youtube webcam
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley