I some what successfully made my first post with pictures, (My wife will not let me buy any more puzzles) thanks to those who read it. I have a question, does the picture insert platform automatically resize them, something popped up but was gone before I read it. The image I had loaded was in a little box which only showed part of the picture, so I kept making it smaller until I could see it all. Viewing it now the pictures are small. So I guess the programme resizes them to the right size, correct? 

I'm getting ready to weather a boxcar, my first try at weathering.  I'll be using pan pastels.  It's a shake-together Bowser boxcar I bought for a couple of bucks at a train show.

1. After completing the kit, I'll soak the car in a water bath with dish soap to remove skin oils, etc.  The car came decaled.  Should I use a toothbrush to gently scrub the car after taking it out of the bath or just rise it off and let it air dry?

I have working on a few structures for my Madras Switching module and I noticed that both of them had a similar element, fiberglass panels. I did a little research and discovered that Fiberglass had been around since the 1930's and was used in commercial products starting in the 1940's. I cannot find a specific date of when Corrugated Fiberglass sheets began to be used in construction, but I would think sometime post was to mid 50's? Since I model 1968 I figured I would be safe modeling these unique panels on my structures.

I'm working on a Walther's ADM elevator kit. A ran across an old blog from 2008 that discussed weathering a concrete elevator:

https://modelrailroading.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/grain-silo-transformation/