44: Builders
photo of
end and
roof details.
(Author's
collection
and used with
permission of
George Elwood
Fallen Flag
Photos).
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STEP 10: The Ends for the 75500 – 75999 and
the76000 – 76499 Series
Continued ...
The same friend who made the molds of the Santa Fe
reefer ends also made a mold of the Buckeye ends at the
same time. These ends are too tall for the cars being mod-
eled, but I thought that they would serve as a good start-
ing point. Since I didn’t want to destroy the original ends
that came with Sunshine kit, I made castings of them.
Off to the races, or so I thought. Man-oh-man, was I
wrong! To make a long story short, trying to use a third-
generation copy to make a master for casting is just a
disaster waiting to happen, and it did. Needless to say, it
was back to the drawing board. I was beginning to think
that this whole project might come to a screeching halt.
A little deep breathing and walking away from the project
for a few days allowed me to clear my mind.
Since the ribs are straight, I thought that they should be
fairly easy to make. The key would be to come up with
a method to make sure that the ribs were uniform and
