New and Repaired Freightcars

This evening a worked on two freight cars at my newly set up workbench. These were two accurail kits lettered for the Boston & Maine. 40 Foot Hopper

(Click on the images to make them bigger) This is an accurail kit that I purchased and built a few months ago. However, it was damaged by my cat while the car was sitting on my workbench a few weeks ago. After its trip to the hardwood floor, it essentialy reverted back to kit form. While the major parts fortunately did not break, its couplers did, so I replaced those with kadees. I will weather the car at some point. On the layout, it will be put into service hauling coal from the Canadian Pacific Railroad interchange in Calais. 40 Foot Boxcar

This is an accurail 40 foot boxcar kit lettered for the Boston and Maine that I recently purchased and assembled tonight. It has, fortunately, no iteresting backstory and hopefully never will. I assembled it as per instructions, and have not yet weathered it. When I do so, it will be weathered very lightly, as the car is lettered as bieng built in January, 1951, so it will be only slightly less than three years old, and will only hve been used in fairly light service. On the layout, this car will transport outbound rolls of newspaper from the St. Croix Paper company in Woodland, Maine. (More about that mill in later posts)

The two freightcars