Jerry Hamsmith returns with another installment of the box car group kit build.
The group building this kit (Ed Rethwisch, Bob Hanmer, Allen DeBraal, Jerry Zeman, and myself) now turns to the car body details.
Continue reading Central of New Jersey boxcar group build, pt 3
Jerry Hamsmith shares part two of the Central of New Jersey automobile box car build.
This post continues the discussion of the addition of the underframe details. The first post ended with the observation that the AB control valve and the reservoir were placed on the same side of the center sill. Although that was common practice on converted brake system cars with deep fishbelly center sills, it was not as common on cars with a standard center sill as on this CNJ car.
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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.
Continue reading Stretching a Southern box car kit