Rail Yard Model PC X79 Boxcar Build

[dti406]

I have started on building another Rail Yard Models PC X79 Boxcar. These were financed by Kellogs for use in transporting cereal out of Battle Creek, MI. I had built one previously, but thought I would show the in progress shots of the second one I am building.



This is all the kit parts laid out on the workbench. Many of the parts are resin with some plastic details to be applied. Trucks and decals are also included.



First the coupler pockets are glued to the underframe, the easiest way to accomplish this task is to put a small dot of ACC on the underframe, spray the coupler pocket with accelerator and then put together. The thin ACC does give you some time to position the part before the accelerator kicks in. The reason the pockets are put on first is they give you something to help align the ends of the car as they are glued on next.



Here is the car after the ends were glued on then the one side was glued on. I used thick ACC and then sprayed on the accelerator to set the ACC in place. Stiffeners were then glued in place in the car using the same glueing method. Not shown I have also glued in place the final side. Next up will be cutting the strip styrene for the underframe detailing.

Thanks for looking!

Rick J

[buffalobill]

Rick: Looks like it will be an interesting build. Are you doing it as a PC, Patch. or CR?. Maybe you will motivate me to finally build mine.
Bill

[dti406]

Bill, I plan to do it in PC as built, I personally do not like patch out's on my cars and CR is not in the equation.

Here is this weekends progress on the PC X79 Boxcar.



Here I have glued on all the I beams to the bottom of the car along with the caps on the main structural beams.



Started work on the brake line piping and rigging, assembled, drilled holes for pipes on the Air Reservoir, Triple Valve and Brake Cylinder, installed the main air line and the lines from the Air Reservoir to the Triple Valve, still have a lot of work to do on the piping and rigging.

Thanks for looking!

Rick J

[buffalobill]

Rick: Looks like it will be another of your great builds. The PC green car was a classic. My Railyard X79 box magically appeared from deep storage last night. It is on the desk. This finally might be the time.
Bill