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ljudice

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Re: CR X-72 boxcars
« Reply #15 on: October 29, 2013, 11:38:50 AM »
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Just for historical completeness.  If I recall they were truely brown, not reddish and had other decoration problems:

http://blwnscale.com/nhd.htm
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Re: CR X-72 boxcars
« Reply #16 on: October 29, 2013, 11:43:21 AM »
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On the NHD cars, the color was wrong as was the size of the various graphics.  If I remember correctly, Ak-Sar-Ben painted/printed those cars.  But that was a long time ago so I am not certain.
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Re: CR X-72 boxcars
« Reply #17 on: October 29, 2013, 02:07:41 PM »
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Can someone enlighten the ol Pudster; what were the original build dates of these ?

Thanks in advance.
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Re: CR X-72 boxcars
« Reply #18 on: October 29, 2013, 02:34:29 PM »
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Quote from: Puddington on October 29, 2013, 02:07:41 PM
Can someone enlighten the ol Pudster; what were the original build dates of these ?

Thanks in advance.

Some are 12/71 and 5/72 according to:

http://www.railcarphotos.com/Search.php?SearchRRClass=X72&Search=Search
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Re: CR X-72 boxcars
« Reply #19 on: October 29, 2013, 03:45:23 PM »
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In addition to the X72, there was also a riveted version that name out a few years prior in 69 or 70. These were referred to as X68. A quick swipe of a chisel blade and some Archer decals would make this a proper X68 as well.
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Re: CR X-72 boxcars
« Reply #20 on: November 04, 2013, 12:40:00 PM »
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Quick update.
Threw the shells in the old Chameleon stripper this weekend.
Either my twelve year old bottle of Chameleon has lost it's edge.
(I've only stripped a couple hundred HO & N scale shells, what gives!?!)   :|
Or Life Like & Industrial Rail (who now sells the car) got their hands on that crappy Kato paint.
Just in case, I went out and bought a bottle of 91% alcohol.
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Re: CR X-72 boxcars
« Reply #21 on: November 04, 2013, 02:38:00 PM »
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The 91% will work just fine. I recently stripped about 8 or so of these cars in it.

I should get back to working on these as well. I bought a number of frames from Bryan to put the body on. I have removed all the grab irons and ladder rungs to replace them with wire. THey look pretty good that way. I also removed the brake wheel mechanism and will have to replace that as well. Mine are all going to be PC cars.
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