{"id":3411,"date":"2018-05-04T19:31:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T23:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2018-06-03T23:51:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T03:51:15","slug":"scratchbuilt-underframes-for-36-boxcar-bunk-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/scratchbuilt-underframes-for-36-boxcar-bunk-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratchbuilt underframes for 36′ boxcar bunk cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been cycling through a few different projects on the workbench lately, including updating a few older projects. One of which is this set of old bunk cars rebuilt from 36′ wooden boxcars from the turn of the century. I started on the first pair last year<\/a>, building up the bodies, adding basic styrene floors and also adding a third modernized car to the collection. I never finished detailing the underframes though and the project rotated to the side as other projects like Wawa station<\/a> took the forefront this winter.<\/p>\n

As I work through various smaller projects, I decided it was time to finish detailing the brake system on the underframes and move these projects a bit closer to completion. The main underframe is of course scratchbuilt from a floor of .040″ styrene sheet and the bolsters, main sill and braces built up from various sizes of styrene strip. I also scratchbuilt the coupler pockets right into the frame with a styrene strip box and a piece of .125″ O.D. tube for the mounting point, securely welded in place with styrene cement and tapped for a 2-56 mounting screw.<\/p>\n

(I ended up locating the mounting point a bit far back, not accounting properly for the full thickness of the end sill on the body, but a long-shank Kadee coupler compensated for that, and having the mounting point a bit farther from the edge of the floor sheet is probably more stable.)<\/p>\n

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The truck bolsters are also built up from various pieces of strip and sheet, with a solid block formed from a stack of styrene pieces drilled and tapped for a 2-56 to mount the truck.<\/p>\n

Brake details were added using a Tichy K brake detail set and brass wire for the rodding. It’s not a “contest-level” brake rigging system, but it gives approximately the right impression and shows an appropriate level of rigging detail for a track-level side view.<\/p>\n

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