Another Empire Belt RR / Atlantic Pacific RR Joint Paint Project is in the books!

Greetings All,

Another Empire Belt RR and Atlantic Pacific RR joint paint project is in the books! We started the project in early December 2017 and a little over a month later it's now checked off the to do list. 

1:1 Sir Neal once again scored big at various train shows in 2017.  He's kind of like a magnet for great deals! The first phase of the project will be these 8 Atlas PS2 undecorated covered hoppers.

Phase 2 will be the stripping, painting and lettering of four 86' auto parts boxcars from Athearn.

Hey! What's going on here? My red WCRC 8601 is almost identical to 1:1 Sir Neal's brown WCRX 8601. Were they brown or red? I'll let you guys decide. //www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsList.aspx?id=WCRC&cid=2 
The brown is heading to the paint stripper and the red one is on borrowed time. 

A surprise snow storm and extreme cold shut down the Patti -O paint shop for over a week.

A sunny 50 degree day allowed me to reopen the Patti O Paint Shop. But the nice weather lasted only one day. Right now the A.P.R.R. and E.B.R.R. 86' boxcars have two of their three colors applied. AP 8 door 86' boxcar mocked up with decals for the other side in the container.

Continued cold weather had the Patti O Paint Shop closed for another few weeks. Finally we experienced a January thaw and I was able to get the eight PS-2 hoppers completed.

Here are four of the PS-2 hoppers ready for revenue service.

 The 8 car string of PS-2's ready for road testing. 

A close up of two of the four different lettering schemes the PC used on their PS-2 covered hoppers.

The other two schemes.

A short video of the PS-2 hoppers being pulled from the shop

With the sun shining at last and the temps hovering around 60 I was able to get the last of the painting for the 86' boxcars completed.

With the cars painted it was time to apply the decals! I got down to the nitty gritty of the project and here's the 86' boxcars with their decals finally installed.

We left the PRR car as is due to the fact it's very well done and fits right into our virtual ops scheme. The NYC/E.B.R.R. car is a duplicate of one of mine that we'll use in the virtual ops and the AP 86037 will be seen on the AP.

The 1/87th scale trainmen of the the N.Y.C.T.L. have once again gathered to  see what's new coming out of the Patti O Paint Shop.

On January 22, 2018 all cars for the A.P.R.R. from this project were dispatched to Rock Ridge Yard in PC Train: AP-12.

Thanks for reading and watching!!

The package arrived at 1:1 Sir Neal's house on January 25th!