Weathered freight cars for Sweethome Alabama

I started building Sweethome Alabama exactly 2 years ago and have now reached the stage where the trackwork, electrics and scenery are pretty much complete, so much so that I have accepted an invite to attend a Model Railway exhibition in November.

I now have to concentrate on detailling and weathering the rolling stock which will run on the layout.

The latest freight car to enter service is a TTX excess height boxcar (Athearn Genesis 60’ Gunderson). although a bit new for the layout (2007 build), it’s a very nice model and the graffiti was added by a friend at work, who is a wargaming figure painter. The prototype photos I found showed very clean cars, but many of them had been ‘tagged’ with graffiti, possibly within weeks of entering service.

Jon

you are in the correct way! great job! keep updating

A couple more new photos of weathered freight cars. One of these days, I’ll get round to fitting drop steps to the MDW car

Jon