Carriage & Wagon Today

I spent all day today rubbing down and repainting all the wooden step-boards in the Mk1 rake. Just three more left to do, on one side of E4919. No photo, because we all know what a painted plank of wood looks like!

SNCB 21013 was undergoing further needle-gunning today (quite frankly, I'm glad I'm not the one having to do it) and now looks like this:





The chassis/underframe/headstocks/stepboards etc of the BR brake van have been drastically smartened up with a coat of gloss underframe black. That just leaves the body...