Bulkhead FlatCar Again

We're actually going to start off this time with this link 🔴 LIVE Trains Railcam | Houston, Texas (Tower 26) PTZ to the Tower 26 live webcam in Houston, Texas.  I happened across this on YouTube last Sunday, and it certainly seems to be a busy enough spot.

And now another look at the bulkhead flatcar that I put the wooden deck and ends.  I've finished what I wanted to do to this car, except I haven't made a load for it yet.  The instructions from Imagine That said to attach the parts with gel-type CA glue, so I did.  Here's a view of how I held that in place while the CA cured overnight.

I know size of the clamps might look like overkill, but that's what I had, and they worked.

I've added a bit of graffiti (decals) to the side of the B-end bulkhead and to the front of the A-end bulkhead. I wasn't sure about applying a decal to actual wood, so I first gave the wooden bulkhead surface a double-shot of Tamiya's clear gloss.  The decal was an old one from SGS (thanks Sean).

 Hard to see them in this view, but I've also added the Smokebox Graphics reflective stripes.The entire car got a light spray of Rail Brown to flatten down the colour and then Tamiya Clear Flat to seal it all up.

As for making a load for this flatcar, I was going to use some Rix I-Beams that I have, but they're 50 feet long, and the actual flatcar deck is only 48 feet in length.  The bulkheads each take up 6 feet of the 60 foot overall length of the car.  I don't feel confident that I could cut length off of the I-Beams very well, so I'll have to think of something else. 

And so I'll close out with this scanned this photo of CN 1317, taken probably around 30 years ago or so, by the late Bruce Peachey.  I lightened the contrast on the image here by 20% in order to be able bring out the trucks and fuel tank a bit better.  Seems like scanned photos often appear darker than the original print.1317 is sitting down alongside the St.Clair River here in Sarnia.  It would have been there to work the CN car ferry that would run back and forth from Sarnia to Port Huron, Michigan.  That's Port Huron in the background of course, and if you look at the upper right end of the picture you can just make out the Bluewater Bridge, back when there was only the one bridge.

Have a good week everyone.  Take it easy if you're shoveling snow.