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Some of the 40' MTH boxcars have a pretty nice paint job. I wish MTH would make a 50' modern boxcar, but since they don't, I decided to cut up one their 40' ones. I added  roller bearing trucks and some Gary Raymond 36" wheels and a plug door. Cut off most of the MTH cast on details, and tried to match the ATSF red. It came out pretty nice, so here it is

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Nick, they just take too long and are a ton of work. I'm going to follow Bobs plan and make molds from the master. In fact, I've got everything finished except the roof. They will have 2 different sides, one plug-door and the other double door. I'll post some pictures when I get the roof done. They are both 1/32nd scale, KD820's  and scale

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Hi Larry: And best wishes for the new year. Very nice job you did on this 50' modern box car. Although my modeling period stops at 1957 when PRR was 100% dieselised, I am still admirative of the work you did. I did a similar job on a couple of MDC - Piko reefers lowering the body lengthening it and shortening the height of the door to make a couple of Fruit Gropwers Express reefers and remember how much work it was to do it. But I didn't go all the way and left the cast on grab irons which is a mistake.  The first photo shows where I cut and spliced as I used a Merchants dipatch white reefer sacrificed for the splices you can see very well where it was done and the last photo is the finished cars with a bit of dirty weathering mist over the lower body. The problem is that it should be narrower also... But that can't be seen when it's in a train. So I doubt if I will make more myself. Perhaps a couple of MDC boxcars to use up the leftovers of the sacrificed car. I wanted some FGE reefers as there are none and PRR was member of that. And I had found some decals also... I shall be moving south in the next few months so don't be surprised if I don't answer for a while.

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