It was brought to my attention that I don't have but two VM boxcars on my layout. Kevin Klettke from his excellent
Washington Northern model railroad and I have exchanged some emails and freight car decals in the past few years. Of course both of use have not had the chance to use them yet on anything. Kevin wanted to see some VM boxcars and so I started looking. I ended up only finding 2 of them. One reason I don't have many is because I finally settled on a reporting mark for the railroad: VMID I have used VM and VMD in the past so this was one reason I sold them at various shows. Hard to change the reporting marks when they are already weathered. Plus on my small layout, there is not room for all of them, even though I have several boxcar industries. I like such a large array of boxcars, it hard to get them all on the layout! I do have some VM ballast cars, sand hoppers and a side dumper. Believe I have more Virginia Central boxcars than VM ones, but the VC ones are prototypes.
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| A patched Double door VM boxcar |
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| Here's one that has escaped the new reporting marks. It's an Ex-BN plug door. Looks like another small project! |
Beautiful work! I'm starting to get the itch to start patching a few of my Boxcars for the MFTR. (not confident enough to take on the engine myself though) That may be something best left for the Virginian Midland shops. ;)
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Patch-outs are the easiest to do. Already painted and all you have to do is patch their reporting marks with trim film and add your reporting marks. Thanks for checking out the site Matt!
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