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RCW 1941 Soo Line square corner box car

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Lester Breuer returns to the blog with a recent freight car kit build.

Once more I am pleased to be able to share my work with you here on the Resin Car Works blog. The build this time was a Soo Line box car, square-corner design, offered in July. Nice photos for the build are in the kit “Prototype Data and Modeling Notes.” If photos of greater clarity are desired you can find the same photos with additional data in the captions in the Soo Line Freight Equipment and Cabooses book by Kenneth J. Soroos on pages 16 and 17.

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Variations on a Gondola

Resin Freight Cars,
Photo by Clark Propst.
Photo by Clark Propst.

On a recent Sunday, Clark Propst posted the image seen above to the Resinfreightcars YahooGroup as he began building a Funaro & Camerlengo HO scale resin gondola kit. Over the next couple of days, other modelers shared images of their work on the same kit. It was great to see how people finished their kit as Clark shared more progress photos.

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Sunshine Models PFE R-40-18 Reefer

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Lester Breuer is back with another completed freight car model. Here’s his latest.

After sharing my Sunshine Models CB&Q box car build on this blog (for which Frank Hodina did the masters), I thought I would build a refrigerator car. From my inventory of kits, I chose this Sunshine Models Pacific Fruit Express R-40-18 refrigerator. Frank also created the masters for this kit.

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Resin Car Works Illinois Central Enterprise offset hopper

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George Toman is back with his second resin kit build, the recently released Resin Car Works Illinois Central twin offset hopper. Here’s George with his story

I started with a Resin Car Works Illinois Central 33-foot hopper, which has some beautiful detail cast into a one piece body. Being one to never leave anything alone, I made a few modifications to the standard kit.

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