ROLLING STOCK UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Several cars in the works:

--Texas & Pacific gondola using an American Flyer carbody.  The scale trucks have been mounted and couplers are next, along with steps and weathering.  The car will have to be weighted and, to hide the weights, it will have a load of utility poles.

--Texas Coast (my fictional connecting line) boxcar, also using an American Flyer carbody.  Lettering, using dry transfers, is done.

-- Texas Coast boxcar from a partially assembled (but incomplete) kit I acquired somewhere (can't remember where).  I need to mount trucks, add lettering and a roofwalk, which I'll make out of styrene.

--Southern Pacific flatcar using an American Flyer carbody.  Scale trucks are mounted, couplers and steps and a brakewheel are next.

Upcoming projects:

--Scratchbuilt baggage car and a coach using plans from Model Railroader.

--Steam loco water column and an oil column (Texas steam power was often oil-fired).

--Diesel fuel tank.

MISCELLANEOUS UPDATE

In no particular order of importance, some of the things I've been working on:

--I just received an order of freight trucks from American Models which will help in the completion of a dozen cars.  Ten of these will use American Flyer car bodies, two will be scratchbuilt boxcars.  I also have a kit-built billboard reefer that I will repaint as a Texas Coast reefer, since billboard reefers were no longer legal in the year, 1947, I'm modeling.

--I have six pairs of passenger trucks available.  Five will be used for cars to be used on the layout.  One pair will be set aside for a special project:  I'm working on a model, strictly for display on a bookshelf, of a 1930s Orient Express coach.  I found plans in a book about famous trains and have been building the coach on and off for several years.

--I still have on hand window castings, so I will try to find space to add one more structure...I don't know what it will be, though I'm considering a small office shack for my Coastal Barge Lines pier.