A Joe McMillian photo:
https://tinyurl.com/sw8dzml Caption: "Texas & New Orleans box car on the Santa Fe, Lubbock, Texas, January 7, 1964."
If you like to weather cars from prototype photos this is a great reference photo.
I noticed several items and you may notice others:
- Worn lettering
- Streaking from roof runoff
- Rust/grime on the vertical rivet lines
- Scuff marks above the ladder rungs
- Patch paint
- Chalk marks
- Caked grease/dirt on wheel faces
- Paper fragments on the placard board
- Four rusty bolt fragment where the placard board previously was located
- Scrape marks from opening the door