The first one hundred people registering for the 2024 RPM Naperville received a mini-kit of HO scale resin details and a decal sheet for a Central of Georgia 40-foot automobile box car. To satisfy popular demand, Resin Car Works has produced a limited number of these mini-kits.
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Fenton Wells sent a summary of his HO scale plastic reefer kit upgrades. Here’s Fenton with the details.
The Accurail 8500 series kits are very nice, plastic injected-molded models of plug (sliding) door transition era, 40-foot refrigerator cars with ice bunkers. I model 1953 and found the prototypes were first introduced around 1950. I thought I should have one or two for my railroad.
Continue reading Upgrading Accurail plug door reefersBack in action!
Resin Car Works is back after a winter break!
Continue reading Back in action!A special gondola
Ken Soroos shares a story on one of his latest freight car fleet additions. Here’s Ken with more.
A nice surprise arrived a few months ago when Ted Culotta sent me the unfinished HO scale Intermountain composite USRA gondola kit Bill Welch had been working on.
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