Finished it up this morning except for some possible weathering. My layout now has two CM freight cars. I'm trying to build up a small mixed consist of about 6 cars. At the rate I'm going, it'll be sometime next year before I get them all built.
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brr
excellent job
sometimes the joy is in the journey rather than the destination
Scotie
Looks familiar! I have one, but I didn't know who made the kit..picked it up built in a
show and changed trucks to three rail arch bars...
I "roughly" used the instructions to build the kit, which I probably shouldn't have, because the stakes aren't quite right for a CM gondola, which changed the location of the dry transfers. I'm going to build another gondola and will pay closer attention to the prototype. I'm using Kadee's and Athearn arch bar trucks. Thanks to a fellow forum member, I now have a couple Lionel arch bar trucks, so I think the next gondola will be a transition car from 3-rail couplers to Kadee's. Haven't decided if I'm going to do another LaBelle gondola, or modify a Ye Olde Huff n Puff ballast car.
The next car I'll build will be a Ye Olde Huff n Puff boxcar. I don't really like the size of the LaBelle boxcar, so hopefully this one will be more to my liking. I think I'm going to make it into a Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek (short line) car, just for a splash of color.
I assume you have decals for the "Midland Terminal/Cripple Creek Short Line", as I
have some by Proto-Cals, of Austin, Texas, and think there MAY be some available
from Clover House of Calif., who have that gondola lettering. I found some Colorado
historical road decals from an outfit called C-D-S of Ottawa, Canada, but don't know
if they are available still..
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