A couple years ago, I picked up a couple box car shells with the idea of someday coming up with a color scheme for the NTS&B rolling stock. Also, a while back, I screwed up and made my depressed center flat car, which I had been using for my digital camera, into a permanent TV Camera car. The depressed center cars work great for the digital camera, since they sit lower than a regular flat, so you see more of the buildings instead of just the roofs. Since the depressed center cars seem to carry a premium price, I recently picked up a plastic ($1) and a long metal ($2) car (no trucks), so I purchased wheel sets for them while in York. Since these cars needed painting, I decided to come up with the paint scheme and paint all of them now.. 2 9020 flat cars that I paid $2 each for donated their trucks for the box cars, and I still need to find doors for them, which will be painted red. After that I will have to make some decals with the NTS&B logos. Below are the results so far
3 of the new 4 cars
The plastic depressed center car
One of the 2 box cars painted, still needing doors
Metal Depressed Center Flat Car. After I put it together, I discovered that the car was
sitting higher than a normal flat car. It had extra height where the
trucks mounted, so I ended up trimming almost 1/4 inch of them. The
center now sits slightly lower than a normal flat. I had also purchased 2 trucks with long shank couplers, since the coupler mounting pint was in father than normal. They turned out to be too long for the car, but were the perfect length for my wooden test car, so these trucks were used on that.. The trucks from the 6017 caboose (see previous post) fit perfectly on this car (maybe a smidgen short, but not a problem).
The other box car, still needing doors
The long metal car, with the camera. Notice the camera has plenty of room, but still sits a little high
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