Over on my Andrew's Trains site I've been working away at (and writing up how I've been) upgrading the Athearn Blue Box XAF10 Railbox cars (and yes I know they are not exact - but they're cheap and I have a few of them to upgrade and add to my fleet).

For more information you can head on over to the main site but I wanted to share some photos of the progress so far. This is a multi-part project that I've been working on for some time as I get a few moments.

Here are some excerpts from the article on adding brake gear (as art versus science):

Wow, I have broken the back of the bench work today. I now have 12 feet of bench work, with back scene (sky) boards, legs with self levellers an all completed. There is still some more work to do to get the legs for the other 2 boards that will give me the final length of 12 feet x 2 feet and the return of 8 feet by 18 inches.

Hey;

In the current issue of MRH, I've been quoted. Look for the article on pages 86-87.

Neat.

Andrew Martin

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