Excitement is building for the upcoming RPM Naperville prototype modeling event. Four short weeks from now modelers will gather at the Northern Illinois University Conference Center in Naperville, Illinois.
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It’s been a quiet summer as the Resin Car Works minions have been busy planning the Railroad Prototype Modeler (RPM) Naperville event set for October 16 to 18. Visit the website for more details.
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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.
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