It has been a long story of the construction including a couple of periods of disability that put me off any model railroad activities beyond surfing, reading publications and maintaining https://plasticfreightcarbuiilders.groups.io/ which I own.
Anyway, I have also started a couple of projects including building a few Shasta Daylight cars to go with the Rapido SP Shasta Daylight dome car I have on order and am expecting sometime this year. Shasta Daylight cars were smooth instead of ribbed sided daylight cars with larger windows. They were built in 1949 by Pullman Standard.
In order to clear my workbench I needed to get the grounded coach finished and onto the layout. I have finally done enough that the partially completed and of course unpainted coach can be placed on the layout for a "first view".
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Unfortunately I was just told by Google they won't let me upload photos to this blog (owned by google) any more as they want my permission to use any photos from my hard drive to train their stupid/idiotic AI data. I have refused on principle. I own the copywrite to the photos and my layout content.
Anyway. I had no inclination to carve the wood clerestory roof from the LaBelle kit so I found a couple of clerestory roofs from old MDC shorty "Overton" coaches. I measured and spliced them using tons of plastic filler to cover the joint. I have sanded that joint smooth. Unfortunately the roof is about 3 mm too long. As the grounded coach is staying in one place on the layout and the back end of it will not be visible to normal viewing, I have adjusted it so the visible end meets the coach body.
I can't seem to type right now with out multiple keystroke errors. So that's all folks...
