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If you want something fairly uncommon, you could model a railcar paintshop. There used to be one of these in my hometown. They'd receive 10-15 cars that were gray with white reporting marks stenciled on the side. It took them a while to paint all of them. <br /> <br />What you'd need is a large, modern windowless box and enough storage tracks for however many cars you want to have serving your company. Then you'd have to get that many undecordated cars and an equal number of the same kind decorated. I never saw two different railroads have stuff get painted at the same time, so you could have, for example, 15 undec autoracks and 15 matching BNSF autoracks. <br /> <br />During one operating session, a train would deliver the undec cars. Then they would be spotted inside the big building. Then the giant hand of God would come down later and swap the undec cars for the painted ones. Then in a second session, the painted cars would be removed from the building and set out to be picked up by a train delivering more undec cars.
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