18" Postal Storage Car Interior Upgrade

Awesome work!

@Trainlover9943 posted:

Awesome work!

Thank you 👍

@T.Albers posted:

Thank you 👍

 Awesome work definitely '.. Thanks for taking the time in posting your fine tutoriall...  Very nice looking car'...

Terrific write-up.  I especially liked the shop drawing (?) illustrating components and placements--where did you find it???

  Great work !   Thanks for posting.

@Pingman posted:

Terrific write-up.  I especially liked the shop drawing (?) illustrating components and placements--where did you find it???

Thank you Pingman, the plans can be found online or in the book  "The Union Pacific Streamliners" by Ranks and Kratville, on page 417 under the chapter for Head End and Boiler Cars.

@CHOO-CHOO MIKE posted:

  Great work !   Thanks for posting.

Thank you Mike 👍

Another great effort and how-to post. I have a few baggage cars that could benefit from the same treatment, including the wooden floors. All of those cars are four door models and not very prototypical. 

Fantastic work and great step-by-step.

Great job and tutorial!!

Very nice work.  Was it normal for a mail storage car to have that many bodies in it?  

Really great upgrade. I like how you share all of the details to make one. The end product is fantastic!

@Bill N posted:

Very nice work.  Was it normal for a mail storage car to have that many bodies in it?  

Thank you Bill 👍
Prototypically, I don’t think that many workers would be in a storage car all at the same time unless the train was loading/unloading at a station.  I just wanted to give my visitors something to look at if they opened up a sliding door on either side of the car.

@AlanRail posted:

I just wanted to give my visitors something to look at if they opened up a sliding door on either side of the car.

Great detail work, but that happens a lot??

 

Why the skepticism?

I don't think my experience is unique: Visitors who come to see my passenger car runs always peer inside cars with lighted full interiors and if there are opening doors on baggage cars (or boxcars) they will most definitely open them! Actually it makes the modeling more difficult because looking at scale passengers, fittings and cargo at close range means that any defects in paint/glue are as noticeable as they are in high res photos. But the interest in such features is far greater for the average viewer than in rivet details or even steam running gear. 

Anyway the modeling is more than half the fun/satisfaction of passenger car projects, whether you are striving for prototypical accuracy or (as in my case) just a representation of the real thing. Like @T.Albers I keep a photographic record of my projects and there is an album of them to remind me what I did - if not exactly why. 

Ok my visitors are far less curious.

@AlanRail posted:

I just wanted to give my visitors something to look at if they opened up a sliding door on either side of the car.

Great detail work, but that happens a lot?

Thank you Alan!

I have a little nephew that's 7 years old.  When he comes over to visits he like to watch the trains run.  I let him push the buttons for the coaling station, rocket launcher, 182 electric crane and log loader.   But passenger cars like this don't have much for him to interact with.  So I will stop the train in front of him so he can look inside at all the little people and open the doors.  :-)

Look I love details, I was an engineer for many years and we live for detailing. It's the reason I own both a 3D laser printer and a laser cutter. So the parts I make whether trusses or bridges or radio antennas or signals or whatever are detailed with bolting; that if you look closely even have the under lying "washers". So I love details. 

However, I limit my details as to whether or not the details can be easily viewed and seen. It seems to me a bit time-wasteful to detail a dead cat in a closed box! 

But it's your time not mine.