{"id":402,"date":"2020-04-26T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T23:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sopacincg.com\/lasfv\/?p=402"},"modified":"2020-04-26T16:49:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T23:49:45","slug":"freight-cars-on-the-lasfv-rr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sopacincg.com\/lasfv\/modeling\/freight-cars-on-the-lasfv-rr\/","title":{"rendered":"Freight Cars on the LA&SFV RR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Bruce Petty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a few freight cars that run on my Los Angeles & San Fernando Valley Railroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finished this Wine Tank car 10-21-2011, by modifying an Athearn Chemical Tank Car.
The single dome was removed from the tank body, hole filled and sanded smooth.
I casted six domes from one found in the junk box that belonged to a 1950s
all metal Thomas wine car. Also added metal stirrup steps and wire grab irons at the tank ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AT&SF; 40′ Box Car. Athearn with cotton bales and weathered with wood stain 40 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UP 40′ Flat Car. Athearn with wooden deck added and wire grab irons, weathered with wood stain 40 years ago. It runs in train ahead of the camera car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SP 50′ Gondola. Athearn car with added grab irons and stirrup steps, wood stain weathering 40 years ago. This is one of four gondolas used for scarp iron service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SP 50′ Flat Car. Varney metal repainted. Lumber load is removable using thin refrigerator magnet material. This is one car of six Varney’s flats I’ve painted and decaled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SP General Service Gondola. Made by Ulrich in 1950s. Weathered with a brown Latex paint wash. Loaded with sorted volcanic ant rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SP 40′ Box Car. Made by Accrurail Co. Weathered with a brown Latex paint wash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tank Car. This old Athearn car was weathered with a gray wash. It hauls fuel oil to an orchard smug pot fuel destrubitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Erie 40′ Box Car. Athearn metal, made 1950s. Found at a train show in 2006. I’ve seen older box cars on the prototype looking new like this one, and I really don’t want to weather it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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50′ Standard Hopper Car This is one of the latest cars from Athearn with scale grab irons and thin metal roof walk. I weathered this car using a wash of white Latex indoor paint to look like it has been hauling potash. You may notice that I have sprung trucks on most of my rolling stock, this is because they seem to track better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NP 50′ Box Car. This old AHM car is most likely from a train set. It’s been detailed with metal stirrup steps and a new roof walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coca-Cola, 50′ Box Car. This car has got to be the ugliest model train car ever. It came from our model railroad clubs junk box and as a challange, I’ll try to do something to make it look better. Most likely heavy weathering and leaking cans of Coca Cola rusting through the car sides. Personally I don’t drink the stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Bruce Petty Here’s a few freight cars that run on my Los Angeles & San Fernando Valley Railroad. Finished this Wine Tank car 10-21-2011, by modifying an Athearn Chemical Tank Car.The single dome was removed from the tank body, hole filled and sanded smooth.I casted six domes from one found in the junk box […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bruce","8":"category-modeling","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopacincg.com\/lasfv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopacincg.com\/lasfv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopacincg.com\/lasfv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopacincg.com\/lasfv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopacincg.com\/lasfv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sopacincg.com\/lasfv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/sopacincg.com\/lasfv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopacincg.com\/lasfv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopacincg.com\/lasfv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopacincg.com\/lasfv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopacincg.com\/lasfv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}