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STEP 2: Car Sides Adding the Details
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Next it's time to make and install the top and bottom door
guides. The guides are nothing more than 2” x 4” styrene
strip cut to a length of 12’-4”. A total of eight are needed
for the four car sides. The top door tracks are located first
at the left hand edge of the door opening. With the top
door tracks in place, I began searching through my “junk”
drawer(s) for proper Youngstown doors.
For the 75000-75999 series cars I found 2 doors from a Red
Caboose X-29 kit that fit the 8'-8" car sides. I had screwed
up and put on the Superior doors when I built the kit. Oh
well, it worked to my benefit years later.
10: Now it is time to begin adding the details. I
added the 1” x 6” strip across the top of the 9’ – 3”
car sides. Using the T-square I made sure that the
1” x 6” is straight and parallel with the bottom of the
car. If it's not it will be visually noticeable.
1" x 6" strip
cemented in place.
The T-square keeps
everything straight.
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