Intermountain GPEX Milk Car.

[Curtis Kyger]

I think the rule used to be that cars had to be reweighed after shopping and at least once every 6 years.  Prototype photos indicate this rule was not vigorously enforced.

[bbussey]

Damn that looks good.

@hegstad1 Andrew, I'm noticing you've swapped out the trucks.  I'm guessing that in the era you're modeling that the prototype was similarly redressed?

[hegstad1]

Damn that looks good.

@hegstad1 Andrew, I'm noticing you've swapped out the trucks.  I'm guessing that in the era you're modeling that the prototype was similarly redressed?

Some had the trucks swapped and some didn't.  Since the cars I got didn't have trucks I used these.

[wcfn100]

I think the rule used to be that cars had to be reweighed after shopping and at least once every 6 years.  Prototype photos indicate this rule was not vigorously enforced.

Different eras had different rules I believe.

Here's 1966

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Jason

[peteski]

That car looks great (including the faded red wine color).  Was that factory painted model or did you paint and decal it?

[Mark5]

The paint shop decided it needed to be that way.  It's actually a bit of a story but the prototypes had various other patches and they look cool.

Ah, must be a earlier era thing. Reweighs/shopping that I'm used to don't normally touch that data. Thanks!

[wcfn100]

Ah, must be a earlier era thing. Reweighs/shopping that I'm used to don't normally touch that data. Thanks!

It ended with the consolidated stencils.

Jason

[hegstad1]

That car looks great (including the faded red wine color).  Was that factory painted model or did you paint and decal it?

No.  I painted and decaled it. I used Scalecoat N&W Red cut with Daylight Red and some reefer white.  I then sprayed very dilute True Color Sand to fade it a bit more. It's lettered with Cloverhouse dry transfers transferred to decal paper and then applied in the usual way.  Weathered further with india ink and Pan Pastels.

[hegstad1]

Just one example of patched dimensional data.

[peteski]

No.  I painted and decaled it. I used Scalecoat N&W Red cut with Daylight Red and some reefer white.  I then sprayed very dilute True Color Sand to fade it a bit more. It's lettered with Cloverhouse dry transfers transferred to decal paper and then applied in the usual way.  Weathered further with india ink and Pan Pastels.

Excellent job Andrew!

[Mark5]

It ended with the consolidated stencils.

Jason

Makes sense - thanks!

[Cajonpassfan]

Excellent work as usual, Andrew! You have a way of making things look real.
So a question: most of these cars obviously moved in freights, but  at least some had express style trucks, implying head end use in passenger/mail trains? Is that a reasonable assumption?
I’m not always a fan of flashy paint schemes, preferring to model the mundane and ordinary, but with skillful fading and weathering, these are very cool.
Otto

[bbussey]

They moved generally in dedicated express milk trains, before trucking became the more efficient method of transport after the interstate highway system was built.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Anyone ever actually had some of this wine?

[hegstad1]

Anyone ever actually had some of this wine?

Apparently no one lived to tell about it if they did...