The kits come with scribed interior details, but I wanted cars
with full loads. As the cars track a bit light, adding a coal load
also allows the insertion of a few rectangles of lead weight:
Brush some grimy/soot weathering powder on the sides, inside
walls and rim to create the dirty state these cars were in for their
working lives. A few rust highlights on the NBW details reflect
the constant battering these cars took, not only by the job, but
by the elements as well. If anything, my cars are too clean, and
need a bit more battering to truly play the part.
Coal Cars - 6
10. On the author’s Mt. Coffin & Columbia River
layout, set in the early 1900’s in the Pacific Northwest,
a Ten-Wheeler spots a pair of 20-ton coal cars on a
scratch-built coal unloading dock.
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MRH-Mar 2013
