CR X-72 boxcars

[ljudice]

Just for historical completeness.  If I recall they were truely brown, not reddish and had other decoration problems:

http://blwnscale.com/nhd.htm

[bbussey]

On the NHD cars, the color was wrong as was the size of the various graphics.  If I remember correctly, Ak-Sar-Ben painted/printed those cars.  But that was a long time ago so I am not certain.

[Puddington]

Can someone enlighten the ol Pudster; what were the original build dates of these ?

Thanks in advance.

[lock4244]

Can someone enlighten the ol Pudster; what were the original build dates of these ?

Thanks in advance.

Some are 12/71 and 5/72 according to:

http://www.railcarphotos.com/Search.php?SearchRRClass=X72&Search=Search

[daniel_leavitt2000]

In addition to the X72, there was also a riveted version that name out a few years prior in 69 or 70. These were referred to as X68. A quick swipe of a chisel blade and some Archer decals would make this a proper X68 as well.

[fredmoehrle]

Quick update.
Threw the shells in the old Chameleon stripper this weekend.
Either my twelve year old bottle of Chameleon has lost it's edge.
(I've only stripped a couple hundred HO & N scale shells, what gives!?!)   
Or Life Like & Industrial Rail (who now sells the car) got their hands on that crappy Kato paint.
Just in case, I went out and bought a bottle of 91% alcohol.

[6axlepwr]

The 91% will work just fine. I recently stripped about 8 or so of these cars in it.

I should get back to working on these as well. I bought a number of frames from Bryan to put the body on. I have removed all the grab irons and ladder rungs to replace them with wire. THey look pretty good that way. I also removed the brake wheel mechanism and will have to replace that as well. Mine are all going to be PC cars.