Reply to "Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars."

Mixed FreightOGR Forum Member

Hi all,

Here's an InterMountain Railway Co. O-scale kit I picked up at a hobby shop a few years ago. Lettered for Bruce Chubb's Sunset Railway and Navigation Co., a large HO-scale railroad that got a fair amount of press back in the 70's and 80's, if memory serves. Not sure why InterMountain produced an O-scale kit to honor an HO-scale model railroad, but oh well........................

I still need to match/mix up some paint for the grab rails and stirrups. Glad I finally got it built, I had been putting it off for quite some time while pondering what to do with all those fragile plastic parts.

I "O-gauged" the kit by omitting the fragile plastic under-frame brake and rigging piping, forming grab handles and stirrups out of steel wire and staples to replace the delicate molded plastic pieces, and adding a set of MTH O-gauge trucks from my parts box. Much more durable that way.

While not a prototype road name, it's at least plausible, and for O-gauge, that's okay with me. thumb

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