Done in a Day

Pelle K. Søeborg is a graphic designer in Farum, Denmark. In the early 1990s, several Model Railroader magazines caught his attention, and he has been a model railroader ever since. A trip to the United States in 1992 added to his interest in modeling United States prototypes. Pelle has written a number of articles for Model Railroader. His images have been featured in MR calendars in addition to Woodland Scenics and Walthers catalogs. He is the author and photographer of the book, Mountain to Desert: Building the HO Scale Daneville & Donner River, by Kalmbach Books, which demonstrates modeling techniques through the construction of his home layout.

Introduction 	6

1. Turn a shiny new boxcar into 
rolling stock long past its prime	14

2. Add graffiti and tags: A completely legal 
way to vandalize a covered hopper	20

3. Weather a tank car to leave no doubt
about what it’s carrying	28

4. Weather a tank car to look 
as though it hasn’t been weathered at all	32

5. A rusted roof is the key to 
a realistically weathered old auto carrier	36

6. Give your first-generation double-stack cars 
a contemporary look 	40

7.  An easy flatcar pipe load made
from Evergreen styrene tubing	46 

8. Loading a gondola with stainless steel pipes 
made from aluminum tubes	52

9. Make a heavy steel-coil load for your
gondolas from styrene strips	56

10. Easy-to-make removable loads 
for your open hoppers	60

11. How to give your once-beautiful
Warbonnets a hard-at-work weathered look	62

12. A few improvements and a light weathering 
bring an Atlas Dash 8-40CW up to date	70

13. Apply DCC and sound 
to an older Kato SD70MAC	76

14. Apply a multi-color paint scheme 
to a bare Kato GP35	80

Index	86