Post by umtrrauthor on May 19, 2012 17:00:01 GMT -8
Here's a post drawing on my small archive of photos from my recent modeling.
Although my accumulating of N Scale can perhaps be best described as "all over the place" (I suppose I'm not alone in this!) for my "official" operating sessions I try to depict cars that actually would have been around in the Spring of 1963.
Because my layout is set in Northern New York, rolling stock is heavily biased towards eastern roads, for example, the Erie. The Erie went into the EL in 1960 but there was still plenty of Erie lettered equipment riding the rails in '63.
The Micro-Trains double door and end door boxcar done for the Erie in June 2007, catalog number 07800110, was done in the "as delivered" scheme:
According to the January 1964 Official Railway Equipment Register, there was still exactly one car in service from the original series 68000 to 68099 which was built in 1928. That would be the 68058. A good enough excuse to convert a copy of the MTL car to what it might have looked like in 1963:
The key detail items I changed, besides the paint, were the roofwalk (from wood to steel) and the doors. The real car had two six foot doors and the MTL model has two eight foot doors. I had to "cheat" and model the car doors open. But Rule #1 applies, of course. The car also has body mounted couplers, low profile wheels, and some weathering.
Although my accumulating of N Scale can perhaps be best described as "all over the place" (I suppose I'm not alone in this!) for my "official" operating sessions I try to depict cars that actually would have been around in the Spring of 1963.
Because my layout is set in Northern New York, rolling stock is heavily biased towards eastern roads, for example, the Erie. The Erie went into the EL in 1960 but there was still plenty of Erie lettered equipment riding the rails in '63.
The Micro-Trains double door and end door boxcar done for the Erie in June 2007, catalog number 07800110, was done in the "as delivered" scheme:
According to the January 1964 Official Railway Equipment Register, there was still exactly one car in service from the original series 68000 to 68099 which was built in 1928. That would be the 68058. A good enough excuse to convert a copy of the MTL car to what it might have looked like in 1963:
The key detail items I changed, besides the paint, were the roofwalk (from wood to steel) and the doors. The real car had two six foot doors and the MTL model has two eight foot doors. I had to "cheat" and model the car doors open. But Rule #1 applies, of course. The car also has body mounted couplers, low profile wheels, and some weathering.
