Building a KO&G 250600-252099 boxcar

[Charles Duckworth]

Anyone have a MP 8 1/2″ x 11″ equipment drawing for the TP (KOG) 250600-252099 series they could scan for me? The equipment diagram book I have access to does have this drawing. I want to build the TP car using the Details West kit but I want to verify the size of the sliding door before I scratch build it.

Thanks…

[Nathan Obermeyer]

Charlie,

Are you talking about TP (KOG) 251600-252099?

Nate

[Charles Duckworth]

@obermeyern wrote:

Charlie,

Are you talking about TP (KOG) 251600-252099?

Nate

Yes, Thanks!

[Richard Ryker]

Charlie, I have T&P 251600-252099 as well.

[anonymous]

Charlie
Also a shot of KOG 252011 on ebay. It has the tall ladders, maybe one of the 250 built with a roof walk? Although it looks like in the photo the walk is gone. Doesn’t show a date.

[Charles Duckworth]

@garyh wrote:

Charlie
Also a shot of KOG 252011 on ebay. It has the tall ladders, maybe one of the 250 built with a roof walk? Although it looks like in the photo the walk is gone. Doesn’t show a date.

Thanks for the information, the shot is almost a broadside which helps with scratch building the two Pullman doors.

[Charles Duckworth]

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The second boxcar in Joe Alnether’s Eagle from Winter 2003 article covers the building of a Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf 50′ 6″ boxcar with a combination plug and sliding doors. Cars were initially lettered KOG but were later relettered TP. Cars were built by GATC in March 1966. Joe used a Details West BC-600 boxcar but Athearn has released the car and I easily found several on eBay for under $16. I striped the factory painted carbody using ‘ Scalecoat Unpaint’.

Joe used a Robins Rails door to match the prototype but I didn’t have any Robins Rails kits I could borrow the doors from so mine were scratch built from Evergreen styrene. I also carved off the brake wheel housing as its too low. Intermountain ladders were used for the ladders as I think they look better than most commercial plastic ladders. As with the M-I car I added the four reinforcement plates by the door openings. These were easier to make as they were welded on the car vs being riveted on the M-I car. Joe gives three decal sources for modeling this car; Microscale 87-1222, Odd Ball #264 for the door stencils and Herald King B-710 for the DF-2 markings. I have the 87-1222 set and the B-710 set so will see if I can make up the door marking from other sources.

There’s another photo of these car in Jim Kinkaid’s Mopac Color Guide on the top of page 48 lettered for TP. Photo was taken in July 1979 so the car has the COTS marking and the U-1 black square with the yellow dot.

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[anonymous]

you should use different ladders.

Their thickness destroy the good impression made by the model

[Charles Duckworth]

@IndyCity wrote:

you should use different ladders.

Their thickness destroy the good impression made by the model

They are the thinnest I can find. After you put a coat of paint on the model they don’t look all that bad. [attachment=0:3k2hpfcc]image.jpg[/attachment:3k2hpfcc]

[Charles Duckworth]

Decals and first phase of weathering started. Page 48 of the color guide shows one of these cars in 1979 with an orange plug door so I did the same on the model just for variety. Also the Superior door had some white marking around the outside of the door which I took to be tape residue so I added it using oil paint. Need to seal the car tomorrow with thinned Dullcote and add metal stirrups.

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[anonymous]

Well done.

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