Erie Railroad Boxcars Part 3 -
44a: Since I didn’t have any more 4” x 8” stock
on hand, I cemented 3, 1” x 8” pieces of styrene
together to form the 3” x 8”. During the process of
building up the 3” x 8”, I ran some solvent along
the glass that I use as a work surface hold the 3”
x 8” in place. This creates enough adhesion to
use the scraper to shape the rib, and yet is easy
STEP 10: The Ends for the 75500 – 75999 and
the76000 – 76499 Series
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reasonably close to the shape of the prototype ribs. The
idea that I came up with is to make a scraper that had the
shape (or at least close) of the rib. After all, it should be
fairly simple to file the needed shape into a piece of brass.
Some measuring of the casting that comes with the Sun-
shine kit I determined that the ribs were 8” wide and 3”
deep. To make the scraper, I filed a groove with a half-
round file to a depth of 3”. Once I was satisfied with the
depth, I used the tip of the file to make a tight radius in
the corner at the top of each ridge. I then filed vertically to
form the side of the rib.
44a
An end view of the
shaped stock rib
material
MRH-Jun 2013
