Normally my next freight car build comes from my unbuilt kits cabinet; however not Western Fruit Express Refrigerator (WPEX) 6657. The Sunshine Models kit #34.18, a resin war emergency refrigerator, was recently purchased at a friend’s esta…
To continue to reduce the plastic freight car inventory in my unbuilt kits cabinet, I pulled out 5th Ave Car Shops kit, CMO OB (outside braced or single sheathed) Boxcar 58864 for build and upgrade. The kit is an Accurail 4000 kit produced
A Duluth South Shore & Atlantic (DSS&A) USRA double sheathed Box Car kit with car numbered 16032 was a kit produced for the Soo Line Historical & Technical Society by Accurail (4000 series). The kit as the kit just built, USRA double sheath…
A Duluth South Shore & Atlantic (DSS&A) USRA double sheathed Box Car kit with car numberd 16001 was a kit produced for the Soo Line Historical & Technical Society by Accurail (4000 series). The kit had been in my unbuilt kits cabinet since
A Duluth South Shore & Atlantic (DSS&A) USRA double sheathed Box Car kit produced for the Soo Line Historical & Technical Society by Accurail had been in my unbuilt kits cabinet since November 2000. The kit with car body assembled in 2001,
A Duluth South Shore & Atlantic (DSS&A) USRA double sheathed Box Car kit produced for the Soo Line Historical & Technical Society by Accurail had been in my unbuilt kits cabinet since November 2000. The kit with car body assembled in 2001,
Upon looking into my unbuilt car kits cabinet I again saw Westerfield resin one piece body kit 10453 that built into a Great Northern (GN) Truss Rod Box Car in the 9000-9999 series with 1948 lettering. Why had I purchased a box car kit of a…
Union Refrigerator Transit Lines (URTX) wood refrigerator car, URTX 4682, assigned to series 4675-4699, was leased to The Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway. A photo of URTX 4697 in the 1937 paint scheme, page 106 and a photo of UTRX 4975 with…
Union Refrigerator Transit Lines (URTX) refrigerator 4982 leased to Minneapolis & St. Louis (M&StL) is built using resin castings for sides, ends, and roof cast in the Minneapolis & Northland Railroad Company (M&N) Shops. The masters for ma…
Spokane, Portland & Seattle steel-sheathed box car numbered 12263 was built using Intermountain Railway (IM), Kit 40899, a steel-sheathed box car undecorated kit and resin cast ends and doors made in the Minneapolis & Northland Railroad Com…
Spokane, Portland & Seattle steel-sheathed box car numbered 12263 was built using Intermountain Railway (IM), Kit 40899, a steel-sheathed box car undecorated kit and resin cast ends and doors made in the Minneapolis & Northland Railroad Com…
Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) Gondola 390826 was built with Funaro & Camerlengo (F&C), resin kit 6530. The resin kit contains two PRR “GS” cars with K-Brakes and decals. George Toman gifted me with one. Since my Minneapolis & Northland Railro…