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steps. I didn’t use the kit’s steps. I pre- fer A Line Part No. 29002 C style stir- rup steps because of their durability. To apply


these, use a short piece of


.040″×.040″ strip as long as the step, and glue it snugly against the outside corner of the side at the end to the bot- tom of the car. Once dry, this gives a good platform to drill into; then glue the A Line steps in place.


I used Kadee air hoses and applied the hangers to the end of the car next to the draft gear. I added the hoses after I painted. You can also add the Kadee No. 58 couplers with the trip pins removed. I also added the Details Associates (Part No. 6215) coupler lift bars.


Painting


The car should now be ready for painting. Wash it lightly one more time and let it dry for a day or two. Don’t let finger prints show up at this stage. I use Floquil Southern Freight Car Brown for


the exterior, truck side


frames and roof. In addition, a home- made mix of blacks and browns with a little rust added in was used in a very thin coating for the underframe. Set the model aside for a few days af- ter the initial painting; then spray the sides and ends with Floquil Crystal Gloss coat for the decals. I used Speed- witch Media Southern Railway boxcar decals (Decal D100). These are excellent, but very thin decals and they work bet- ter once they are oversprayed with a clear coat first. This set contains the 1938 monogram in both aluminum and white, perfect for this car. Since D100 is


TOM SINK: DALLAS, N.C.; JUNE 1971


for 40-foot boxcars, I used load dimen- sional data from RailGraphics (their set H101) for the 50-foot boxcar. Champ and I’m sure others also make this data. (Note: Speedwitch is supposed to be com- ing out with the 1945 Monogram soon) Once the decals have set and the car


is dry, wash the car again. Then over- spray with a dull or flat finish and weather the car to suit. Since my lay- out is set in October, 1951, I tried to match that age when I weather. I use a very thin weathered black overspray. Then I added some chalk dust and one more coat of flat to set the whole thing. All this is perhaps a little time con- suming, but you now have a really un- usual Southern boxcar to add to your fleet.


Modeling Southern 40175 One good car deserves another.


I


built another 50-foot model. This car is built the same as twelve-foot door car 40148. The difference is the doors and another set of Youngstown 5-6-5 doors is needed to do it. These will need to be cut down to give the three foot wide door piece that enlarged the one door (see the photos). The upper and lower door tracks must be modified to fit the new door travel. On this car, one needs to add the Evans loader chain storage pipes that extend under the car floor. Looking at the prototype floor plan in the SRHA book, the cars had about 30 of these “floor tubes” extending down from the car floor. Unfortunately, about half of these are close to the car’s trucks.


I


chose not to model those locations as I didn’t want to inhibit the truck opera- tion on my car.


These pipes are about seven inches in diameter, and I used scrap plastic modeling sprues for them. The 3″ white stripe painted three feet up from the door bottom on the right hand door in- dicates that the car had Evans Loaders installed.


If you model between 1939 and 1942, you should add the word AUTOMOBILE in five inch letters and place it six inch- es down from the roof eave and one foot to the right of the right hand door. You can bet the lettering was still on many of these cars well into the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. One more note: I’m not sure if any manufacturer makes the 1945 mono- gram. Several years ago I had Rail Graphics do some Southern decals for me, and they did the 1945 monogram (herald) as part of my set. Speedwitch Media once indicated that it will have this monogram (herald) available but that may or may not happen. It was available with their 40-foot AAR post- war Southern boxcar kit.


If you model the Southern Railroad, the southeast or your trains support the automobile industry and its suppli- ers, you will need some of these cars on your layout. Hopefully this article will help you build models of Southern first steel 50-foot boxcars for you railroad. I wish to thank the SRHA and George


Eichelberger for without their encour- agement, data and support for this proj- ect would not have happened.


RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN


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