The Resin Car Works wheels of production have been grinding along! We have a couple new additions to the website.
Continue reading The latest2024 RCW update
Our head honcho, Frank Hodina, is due back soon from winterizing in the Sunshine State. He will be banding the minions together to restart the Resin Car Works apparatus.
Continue reading 2024 RCW updatePrototype extras
Shortly after the last blog post published, I received a few prototype photos from Ray Breyer. These are great additional resources to help anyone follow Fenton Wells’ kitbash for the Southern 40-foot, double-sheathed, truss rod box car project.
Continue reading Prototype extrasStretching a Southern box car kit
Fenton Wells kitbashed a cool Southern Railway box car and sent details and photos. Here’s his latest model building story.
As most modelers of the transition era know, the Southern had thousands of 36-foot double-sheathed box cars with steel underframes and truss rods. Small as they were the railroad didn’t fill their cars, so they served the railroad through the early 1950’s.
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