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.
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Prototype 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.
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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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One of the Resin Car Works minions has a special offer. Ken Soroos had a number of HO scale Tennessee Central decal sets printed as a tribute to Bill Welch.
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