 
          
            I
          
        
        
          recently purchased
        
        
          an ExactRail 50-foot
        
        
          Gunderson boxcar at a
        
        
          local flea market. The car was
        
        
          lettered GM&O and looked
        
        
          accurate. As I researched the
        
        
          car, however, I ran across the
        
        
          GM&O Historical Society web
        
        
          site and discovered that the
        
        
          Gulf, Mobile & Ohio never
        
        
          had these Gunderson-built
        
        
          center-door cars. This was
        
        
          very disappointing to me
        
        
          because I model my freight
        
        
          car fleet using prototype pho-
        
        
          tos. I would have to repaint
        
        
          the car.
        
        
          Turning to my Morning Sun
        
        
          color guides, I discovered
        
        
          the perfect candidate. In the
        
        
          Burlington Northern Freight
        
        
        
        
        
          1. BN 318517 has just
        
        
          been spotted at Shaw
        
        
          Lumber. A similar SP&S
        
        
          boxcar sits on the main
        
        
          waiting to continue on to
        
        
          its assigned destination.
        
        
          
            Making a
          
        
        
          
            disappointing car
          
        
        
          
            into an accurate
          
        
        
          
            model ...