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Hence why I said that 31 111 was the only loco with 4 ones under TOPS. 😉 I should have added "at the time" (although I did put "back in the day") because it was long gone by the time 91s came along. 🙄

I have a lot of locos which is WHY I don't have deep pockets!!! 🤪😁🤦‍♂️

There's a Thread about how nicely the old Airfix 31 scrubs up. 👍

Glad I wasn't the only one who thinks that!! Their enamels were a very thin pigment, held in a very thick medium. Awful stuff!!

Was it also wrongly located, in the firebox? 🤪 (I'm assuming here that GT3 had a firebox... )

Something in the dim recesses of my mind is telling me that 31 111 was nicknamed 'sticks' by Spotters back in the day? IIRC it was the only loco under TOPS that had 4 '1's in a row.

Hi, thanks, yes I did mention them in my opening post, & I am signed up there. 😉👍 As like rrpicturearchives, they are amazing resources, but I just find them difficult to search when it comes to re-numbered, patched or second owner cars. I was reminded of this issue when a comment was posted recently on the Gateway layout of Chris Gilbert's :- His patched boxcars are so up to date & believable, some of them obviously show traces of their previous owners (some look like ex 'per diem' boxcars), but it's how to find prototype photos like that I struggle with!! Or are they just made up ("foobies") anyway, like his loco? Fictional but entirely believable. What about the boxcars? I have no idea if they're proto-accurate but they sure look it, and I'd like any I do to at least look plausible. i'm not insistent on total 100% accuracy when it comes to freight cars, and I know most of mine probably have errors, especially when it comes to numbers, like my UP above. For example I have an MTH O scale Premier 50ft HiCube in Wisconsin Central livery - Photographed straight out of the box, before conversion to 2-rail. It has fantastic detail, and all numbers, symbols etc are in position and accurate - for a 50ft ordinary boxcar, not a HiCube!!! 🙄🙄🙄🤯🤯🤬🤬🤬 Why not just do things properly in the first place???!!! But for now at least, I'll live with it.

That canvas weather sheet is a sublime bit of modelling - and weathering!! 👍

Best answer I ever heard to that question was "Disobedience".

Agreed. So given the car can be patched, and therefore the number changed, how to go about finding examples of that livery and/or boxcar type, rather than searching the number series? 🤯🤦‍♂️

That's actually come up with a very close number, 169872... But the boxcar looks nothing like mine, of course, never mind the lettering!! 🙄🤦‍♂️🤯

Just wondering if there are any decent websites or resources out there for photos of modern freight cars that are patched with 'stencil' numbers, either for the original owning Railroad, or in 'Ex-ABC Railroad' liveries but patched for current Lease owners? That is, beyond the usual 'go to' websites rrpicturearchives.com and railcarphotos.com which to be honest I don't find too helpful, unless I'm not searching them right - for one thing I'm not sure even what Lease companies are out there & what their reporting marks are. As an example, I have this Weaver boxcar in U.P. Yellow. I'd like to update it to circa. 2000's condition. It's number - or anything close - doesn't appear on either of the above websites, it may be a "Foobie". Even searching for "Ex-Union Pacific boxcar" doesn't help. So how can I find out what a boxcar in that livery might look like more recently and what reporting marks it might have?? I accept a lot of it might well be covered in graffiti these days!! Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Interesting. Without being told, I would not have guessed these are the Peco setrack points, even though I've been following that other thread about the modification as well. I realise it's work in progress, but they also look very different in grey primer as well..!! 👍

Unfortunately that looks more like an Invitation.... 🤪