I recently came across this RBOX photo by Colin Reinhart. I liked the white paint-out across the bottom portion of the boxcar, and the white spray painted reporting mark, and thought I could maybe try to do something like this with one of my RBOX's.

I recently came across this RBOX photo by Colin Reinhart. I liked the white paint-out across the bottom portion of the boxcar, and the white spray painted reporting mark, and thought I could maybe try to do something like this with one of my RBOX's.
I used to see PDRR boxcars going to and from the paper plant in Port Huron, Michigan fairly often. As I remember though, they were painted in a boxcar red or sometimes in yellow. Most of the prototype PeeDee River boxcars are now owned by UP and marked BKTY.
This one of mine is an old Roundhouse model that I weathered. I didn't follow any prototype photo for the weathering, but I think it looks believable, so I'm more than pleased with the way it turned out.
Continuing on with the work along the South Industrial, JSSX 815 has grabbed the RBOX, pulled it out and then shoved the two high-cube boxcars into the customer's spur.
Here's a question... Do you all know that if you click on the pictures in the blog(s), the pictures will enlarge to full size so you can get a much better look at them. The written text doesn't appear though. Small thumbnails of the pictures will appear at the bottom of your screen so you can just sort of cursor along through those and see the images enlarged if you'd like. But I hope you'd still want to read the text too.
Picking up sort of where I left off with last week's post, here's some more of that short JSSX train continuing on it's way. Looks like it's heading to the South Industrial job.
It gets a little challenging sometimes to come up with different views or things to post on the blog. The layout really isn't all that big, and viewing angles get a bit limited. Anyway, I thought we'd try to follow a short (2 cars) train part way around the JSSX.
Here's JSSX 815, a GP38 of course, setting out from the shortline's yard with a couple of high-cube boxcars in tow. The track at the right-hand corner of the photo is the interchange from the GTW yard (it's only 3 tracks wide) to the JSSX yard (also 3 tracks).Friday already. I've spent precious little time around the layout this past week or so, so I'll just post up a bit of an assortment of views here. Some might have been posted before. Sorry if they're redundant.
Good ol' workhorse 815 in it's grey colour pulling a pair of similarly coloured tank cars around the first curve on the JSSXThis TBOX was in the process of being lifted when I noticed this view. I've since put a bit of of Rust Texture paint on the switch machine. It can wear off after a while and then the black plastic looks too shiny so periodically those things need a touch-up.That's going to have to do for now. Have a good week everybody.
One of the sort of goals I have here is for the layout is to get everything on the layout to blend in together, and to not let anything really stand out on it's own too much. This Aurora Miniatures 60 foot high-cube Greenbriar boxcar that I've had for over a year now has finally had it's turn getting some weathering. A really nice model, I've just thought it to be more bright and shiny than I think it should be.
I did go to the Woodstock Train Show last week. I had considered getting myself a table at the show, but in the end just went as a customer. $5 to get in the door, so I thought that was still quite reasonable.
I visited briefly with a couple of the vendors that I'm a bit acquainted with, and picked up 3 items for myself, so here's photos of those...
First up, I have this 53 foot Schneider trailer:This should look good backed up to a loading door, being pulled along one of the roadway overpasses, or maybe I'll just have it parked in a lot somewhere.