Weathering N Scale Cars

When I was recently at The Train Shop, I stumbled across some very cool ghost-lettered N-Scale Railbox combination door boxcars.  They were too cool to let stay behind the counter.

Thanks to war gaming friends, I discovered AK Interactive Weathering paints— and with fairly minimal effort on my parts (Winter Streaking Grime, Light Rust Wash, and other dust washes) the results were astounding:

Happy with the look, I then added BlairLine and Microscale Graffiti decals: