HO scale 8-pack Ellis bumper

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Keep your freight cars from rolling off the end of the spur with this set of eight beefy bumping posts like the one in the photo. Based on a Reading Company plan but common on other railroads as well. The rail is sized about Code 83. Per the prototype plans, the post is slightly off-center for best coupler contact. (In my photos, I hadn't yet added the crosstie that this version includes.) To paint, wash it well with Simple Green or plain old dish soap and water and let it dry thoroughly. I primed mine with some regular spray can primer, then airbrushed it with Polly  Scale Roof Brown. I brush-painted the rear post with Aged Concrete, colored the bolts with a fine-tip brown Sharpie, and brush-painted the buffer casting with Grimy Black. The rails got a coating of Bragdon's Old Rust weathering powder, and a little was applied to the concrete part. I lightened the brown of the forward post with some Bragdon's Grimy Gray, and I painted the striker plate with Polly Scale ATSF Red. To install, just glue the rails to  the ends of your existing rails, and you're ready to roll. Or in this case, not roll.