Erie Railroad Boxcars Part 3 -
44e: Once I had filed the tapers, I removed the
masking tape and cleaned up the fuzz with an
X-Acto knife. I also rounded-over the edges of the
ribs with the knife at the same time. Any extra rib
material straying over the 2” line was trimmed off.
I then ran a file up and down the edge of the ribs
a few times to make sure that all of the ribs had
the same taper across them. A little more cleanup
with the X-Acto knife and some 600 grit wet-dry
sandpaper finished the ribs.
All-in-all, things were looking up. Next the poling
pockets. I decided to shave off the poling pockets
from the Athearn cars that I had been sacrificed
for this project. However, in my finite wisdom, I
had thrown away the cars when cleaning up after
a work session. After all, they were just clutter on
the workbench, and I wasn’t going to use them for
anything, or so went my reasoning at that moment
in time.
44e
STEP 10: The Ends for the 75500 – 75999 and
the76000 – 76499 Series
Continued ...
MRH-Jun 2013
