I am still adding to my German 1/35 scale Train Models from Trumpeter with the Gondola with Low Sides.
This model is pleasant build and comes together well.
If you want improve a diorama then this could help.
Regards Les.

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8809025673535294370#allposts

Unfortunately, that link is utterly useless to me, because it takes me to a web page where it is assumed that I am dying to enter the great wide world of blogging, and only the creation of my blogger.com blog profile is preventing this, so there is no URL to any page on the blogger.com host that does not force me to the 'create your profile' page. And there's no way to abort out of the process. Google rising to a level of "We're certain we know where you want to go today" worthy of Microsoft.

Update: After some digging into support topics, the URL

http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8809025673535294370/posts/default

appears to go to the right blog, and

http://plasticmodelbuilding.blogspot.com/2012/08/trumpeter-railway-gondola.html

goes to the blog entry on the Trumpeter gondola kit.

Hi Sean
So glad you were able to work it out. Very clever.
Regards Les

I'm seriously annoyed at Google for making it so difficult to get to the actual blog.

The weathering on the gondola is well-done; when I started collecting ideas for a diorama of my own incorporating the Trumpeter SSYMS 80 flatcar, I started paying more attention to the appearance of the trucks and roadbed I ran across, and the only things I can see that jump out at me is that the rightmost axle on the gondola appears to have been replaced recently (maintenance is a good thing), because the outer face of the wheel has less rust than the wheel at the other end of the gondola, and the rust I saw on the sides of the rails was more brown and dull than you portray -- which may be an artifact of the specific steel composition of the rails.

Great job!