The Weathering Depot

Hot off the press is this BN 50’ boxcar, thoroughly weathered with peeling paint, rust, streaks, and hand drawn graffiti. ACI plates added. Just went on eBay:

This blog post I’ll talk about my old standby locomotive, PC #5628. This model was my first locomotive when building my past layout, and is an older Atlas model with a Kato drive. The locomotive was purchased with DCC and sound. Of course this guy was in solid black when…

This week’s photo shows SW1200 #9186 shoving a gondola full of coiled steel into Campbell Manufacturing, a producer of small appliances:

Another boxcar joins the fleet, this one off eBay as well. I thought this car was weathered very nicely. After I received it, I simply weathered the bottom of the car, rusted the brake wheel, and applied lube stencils. It has now joined my fleet!

I’ve just received a great find on eBay with a car I’ve been looking for to run on my module, especially since I model Penn Central. This P&LE car is an Athearn Genesis series car. I’ll weather this one up soon…

Here is the latest car finished, a Walther’s car I believe. Car sides, ends, roof, and underside are all lightly weathered with primarily a dirt colored overspray with some spots of rust here and there. New wheels and Kadee couplers were installed as well. Soon to go on eBay….

I didn’t quite like all the weathering done on the ex-BN covered hopper I previously posted, so I added a bit more! I patched out the Burlington Northern roadname , one side with paint, and one side with patch out decals by Smokebox Graphics.. I then lightly sprayed some rust…

My current project involves reworking the weathering on this coil car from Walther’s. Several different mediums were used on this guy, along with lube stencils and ACI panels added. Note the texture on the one rusted hood! I’m now just awaiting the arrival of another Walther’s coil car kit to…

This week’s layout photo shows a Penn Central Alco as it brings its train back through Nitro, WV

This project to rework the weathering on this car is now finished and will shortly go back up on my eBay store site. Don’t miss this one! Photos below once again show the car when started and the finished look:

Here’s the latest photo from my past layout, this one shows GP9 7466 and cabin coming off the service track in Sixth Street yard in Charleston, WV

As of this morning, here’s the current status of my latest project. Just need to apply the remaining decals and seal and thus guy will be ready for my eBay store!

One of my current projects is reworking this BN covered hopper. I’ve had this car for awhile so don’t recall the manufacturer. The car only had a light weathering as shown below while on my eBay store: I decided to take it off eBay temporarily to rework the weathering on…

Next up after delivering two weathered Blackstone narrow gauge locomotives and five more HOn3 cars to a local modeler is reworking the weathering on these two covered hoppers I have for sale. Stay tuned for updates….

I recently picked up this previously weathered model on eBay, as I wanted this particular railroad and the boxcar seemed to be fairly nicely weathered. Sometimes though looks are deceiving. Upon receiving the car I noticed in starting to tweak the weathering that I’d have to rework quite a bit…