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Car Shop Construction
This page details the construction of the Walther's Car Shop (933-3228). Say's Walthers:
The long miles can be hard on railroad cars. Rough handling can shift loads, damaging steel bodies.
Wooden floors wear out and need to be replaced. Wheel flanges and brake shoes wear down.
Exposure to weather and vandalism can ruin a paint job.
Sooner or later, every car winds up at the Car Shops to be repaired, repainted and reading once again for service.
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Here you can see the basic footprint for the car shop which will be
north of the roundhouse.
Press the image to see an annotated version of the area.
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This kit is built in much the same fashion as the machine shop.
The windows, though, are different.
Their mullions need to be painted. The method I came up with
was to paint a flat piece of wood (1"x3" select pine from Home Depot) with the color I wanted (Poly Scale tarnished black)
and then put the window on it, holding on with a piece of scotch tape.
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Here is the kit almost completed. The roof is not on, but you can see inside.
Unlike the roundhouse, but like the machine shop, the interior surfaces are not detailed (e.g.
there is no interior brick; the doors are not two sided and
the window frame are not fitted into the walls with a flat finish.
The center track is going to run into the Allied Rail Rebuilders building; the back door for the
other two tracks will remain in the closed position.
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Here it is in position with the tracks laid into it. No ballast in this area of the engine yard yet.
The color of the car shop is Polly Scale Depot Buff.
The roof is tarnished black, also from Poly Scale. The interior
heavy metal framing is painted in the dark brown paint from
Joe's that is used to paint the rails. See the interior photo
above.
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View from across the roundhouse. A box car is in the car shop on its way to the rebuilders for some
extra heavy work.
Select the image to see a bigger and wider view.
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In this photo gallery image, a visiting B&O switcher is seen marshalling a box car into the car shop. It has a MOW track
cleaner on its back end.
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An Erie-Lackawanna switcher is waiting at the end of an empty RIP track in this
photo gallery image. The car shop is in the background.
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