Container Traffic

Been a few months since I put up a picture of the first container wagon I built. Since then it has been painted, along with two more:

Each wagon is loaded with two 20ft containers. The containers are a Walthers product and come supplied already painted and lettered. The real fun I had with building the wagons was not so much the construction side but more applying the decals. Each side has 11 decals (10 if you opt not to apply the VR logos) and it can be hard reading the fine white print on the blue decal backing paper. Thankfully Steam Era supply an excellent diagram in the instructions that have the harder to read ones blown up. With these 3 done work has just been completed on building number 4 and is now ready for paint. My aim is to have a train of about 10 wagons depending on how many I can fit into one of Auscision's gold storage boxes. When finished I will have a train suitable for haulage by some of my more modern locomotives such as a A-class, C-class and hopefully a future Austrains G-class.