For your consideration... this is New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk RR Boxcar #3144 C.T. (Columbia Trust). Completely hand built from a Tichy Kit this car is a fine representation of a class of cars built for the N. Y. P. & N. in 1919. The car is primed and painted Tru Color Paint Boxcar Red. It is custom decaled using Westerfield Model Decals to represent its in service appearance on the N. Y. P. & N from 1919 through the mid 1920's. Weathering products are AK Interactive powders and washes set in place with Testors Dullcote. Prototype accurate Andrews Trucks are by LL Proto with free rolling rib back metal wheels and Kadee Metal Couplers. For the steam era modeler, these cars would have gradually been repainted to PRR livery after USRA control ended in 1921 when the N.Y.P. & N. was folded into PRR operations. The N.Y.P.&N. went into service in 1884, the brainchild of William Scott of Erie, Pa. and the legendary Andrew J. Cassatt of PRR fame. Andrew Cassatt was looking at the road as a bypass of the congested Eastern Shore freight traffic and found the idea so attractive he took leave; laying out most of the route on horseback with a ferry connection to Norfolk from Cape Charles, DE. Rolled into the PRR starting in 1921 the road existed until the PC merger in 1968 when it became another Fallen Flag line.