Highway Overpass Part 2

Picking up sort of where I left off last week, the overpass has been coming along quite nicely so far.  Here, I've masked most of the roadway and the concrete guardrails, leaving scale 6 gaps only where the roadway's lines will be.

The lines at the right side of each lane are sprayed yellow using the airbrush, and the double solid line down the centre is white. Each of the lines are about 6 inches wide.

Tape removed, and the lines look pretty good.  I then brush painted about a dozen or so spots to look to represent potholes that have been filled with asphalt. Rather than use a true black colour for this, I instead used SP Dark Gray to try to give an older appearance to the "asphalt".

I've weathered the overpass support piers, so here's a look at one of those

I used Brown Panel Line, plus Burnt Umber and Ivory Black to grime things up a bit. I have to say though that the support assemblies seem a bit spindly to me.

And here's the overpass bridge set roughly into place on the layout.  Remember, I said roughly.

I think that as it sits at the moment, the overpass is quite a bit too tall.  I don't actually have any double stack cars, but I put two containers on a flatcar just to see how things might look.  The bottom of the bridge girders are about an actual inch and a half above the top of the containers.

About the same view as the one above.  I have another set of columns to add to the middle area.  But I really think it's too tall, so I'll have to shorten down 12 columns, probably by about an inch or so. 

One more look for now.

This view from the other side of the overpass, shows a bit of the surrounding area as well.

And in other news, I had recently ordered and just this week have received a new piece of rolling stock. It's an Aurora Models 60 foot high cube Greenbrier boxcar.  And boy, is it nice! Here it is, right out of the box, sitting on the spur that leads into the Tri-State Paper facility on my Grand Trunk.

Note that the reporting marks are high up on the sides of the car.  I guess this is to try to prevent taggers from painting over the reporting marks.  Makes me wonder though if taggers wouldn't just climb on those horizontal ribs to do their work.

There are a couple of little details that Chuck has pointed out to me, such as none of the door closer handles are vertical, nor do they have the white paint at the tips. He also points out that the coupler bars are yellow on the prototype cars, with white paint where the worker would place their hand, as well as that new freight cars have a light coloured non-slip coatings on the stirrup steps. Those should all be quick and simple fixes to the model.