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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Bryan Steckler shares his work in backdating a pair of Resin Car Works Kit 19.01 Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) automobile box cars. Here’s the scoop from Bryan!
When Resin Car Works announced their CNJ 19000 series automobile cars, I quickly bought a pair. The CNJ is a staple railroad of the Northeast, and one that has a limited amount of accurately modeled equipment.
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Resin Car Works honcho Frank Hodina is helping Martin Lofton’s family sell the remaining Sunshine Models inventory. A few items are available now. As of May 10, 2024, all kits listed on this post are sold out.
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.
Continue reading Stretching a Southern box car kit