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umber._0.jpg Here are a few shots of my latest freight car modeling projects. Last month I made an impulse purchase of an Exact Rail 50 foot Gunderson DD box car. It was lettered for GM&O. I discovered however that according to The GM&O historical society the GM&O never had these center dd cars. I soon found a great candidate to repaint the car. It was BN 318517 in the BN freight car Morning Sun color guide. The BN acquired these cars in 1970 and were the first rolling stock to be painted in the new BN scheme and were from the same order as the SP&S 50 ft cars. This was interesting to me because just finished a model of one of these neat pea green cars last summer. The SP&S car involved a bit more kit bashing. I carved out the stock doors and kit bashed some Intermountain doors from my scrap box. The decal is a Champ set. 

Bob Rivard

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Tom Patterson

BN Boxcar

Bob,

Great looking cars! I did the same thing and bought two of these cars undecorated. I plan to do one in the home road scheme and was looking for a prototype for the other. That BN car fits the bill perfectly! Did you use Champ decals for both cars?

Tom Patterson

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brivard

Decals for my Exact Rail cars

Hi Tom!

   The BN car required 3 Microscale sets. I used my last Champ  HB 399 SP&S set for the SP&S car. I'm almost finished writing up how I modeled these cars for MRH mag.

 

 

-Bob

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Tom Patterson

Article

Great- I look forward to the article, Bob.

Tom Patterson

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