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Canadian Pacific Railway WWII Emergency Boxcar. |
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| Build a correct CPR boxcar from an Intermountain kit. | ||
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| Intermountain kit
number #41070 "WW II Emergency Boxcar, Rectangular Panel
Roof" is the basis for this project. The war emergency boxcars were built in large numbers and many railways (railroads) had them. They were built with two different inside heights, 10'-6" and 10"-0". The problem we are faced with is, CPR had the 10'-0" version, the Intermountain kit is of the 10'-6" version. |
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There is way to reduce the height on the model. It has to be 1.7 mm lower. I cut of the top of the sides on a table saw, almost down to where the diagonal brace meets the vertical. |
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The ends have to be cut
down to match the sides. Sanding works best. Or you can use the ends from another Intermountain kit of the 1937 boxcars with 10'-0" inside height. |
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 The doors are Youngstown 6'-0" wide, the ones here are from a 1937 boxcar kit. You have the remove the top end braces. with a sanding stick or shaving. The new ones are made from Evergreen Polystyrene #103. |
 Brake platform is is a piece of etched APEX material. |
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 A piece of Evergreen
Polystyrene #8406 has the right dimension to fill in as
top rail, the whole length of the side.
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I use 0.005" brass strips
for the new stirrup steps and 0.012" brass wire for the cut lever. |
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 A new door runner has to be made from Evergreen Polystyrene #111. The door stop was cut of from the side before it was cut down. |
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 The model was painted CPR oxyd red and AWS-1076 decals used. Trucks are Kadee #565. |
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| All pictures Andy
Wegmuller |
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