St.L. B. & M Automobile boxcar

[peggyrothschild]

Here’s a quick HO car that can be built. This is the MDC car that came out in the 1990’s. Decals available from the company store. Painted TruColor MKT freight car brown, wire hand grabs replaced the cast on ones and roof walk scrapped down on the underside.
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[bargetanika]

How do you get the cast on ladders grabs and brake rod off so cleanly? I don’t think I could do that. Whose ladders, grabs, and stirrups? Did you do brake rigging underneath? Looks like you took a fish belly off the side.

That kind of detail looks so good. I’m retiring in 4 months and will have time for this kind of work and won’t be traveling every weekend.

[peggyrothschild]

The MDC plastic is rather soft so I just use a flat Exacto blade, flat file to remove as much of the plastic hand holds as I can. Then dress up the area with 400 Emery paper. It actually goes pretty fast due to the soft plastic. I then use a pin Vice with a sewing needle to mark where to drill the #78 holes.

As to the brake details underneath – nope. No one sees the underframe so it’s pretty much as it came out of box.

The large reinforcement plates under the doors were removed as you mentioned. These show up on the WP boxcars but the MP cars just had a piece of steel added in that area.

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