Well my coal dumper that I wrote about is on the back burner. Decided to finish more of the layout before adding on :-) One of the main industries on the layout is to be an ADM facility that is similar to that in Cedar Rapids, IA. I had it represented you a bunch of PVC pipes for years. As I was recently retired I decided to work on it, throw away the PVC pipes and build it using 3D printing.

One thing that's apparent when you model a single railroad for nearly two decades is that the state of the equipment is always in flux.  Damage and wear are inflicted, repairs are made...more wear, more repairs.  In fact, that's one of the things I enjoy most about prototype modeling within a very tightly-defined era because, through the details you choose to model or ignore, you tell the story of where a particular locomotive or car was in its journey with the railroad.

I am detailing some HO scale Walthers Union Pacific passenger cars, both heavy weight and and light weight. I want to put window shades and venitian blinds in them, where appropriate. In the prototype photos most of the time the they are blurry enough that you can not tell which type of window treatment they have.

Does anyone know which cars or eras who have one or the other? I would suspect that venitian blinds would be more likely on light weight cars.