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Project Lombard: UP PS-0 Box Car
Project Lombard, Project Gable’s companion, is a preview of the near future of railroading from the perspective of the late 1930s. The so-called PS-0 was a welded steel box car whose model railroad designation was created by modelers. Project Lombard is a straightforward build of the Funero & Camerlengo PS-0 box car; description: 40′ 1938…
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A Weatherbeaten UP Box Car
The UP Couple In the last few years I acquired two Union Pacific box car resin kits: A Westerfield B50-1 wooden prototype and a Funero & Camerlengo “PS-0” steel prototype, which I have designated Projects Gable and Lombard, respectively. Here we see how Project Gable came together. Project Gable and the B50 Box Car Model…
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UP Harriman Box Car by Westerfield
In 2022, I started a Union Pacific Harriman 40′ box car by Westerfield (1754 B-50-1/2/4 40′ DS BOX CAR, MODERN, 1924 & 1936 LETTERING, UP) when life, uh, found a way to impose a modeling freeze. In 2025, this project was resurrected. Stage 1: 2022 Assembly By my third resin kit, initial assembly was much…
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D&RGW Fowler Clone Resin Kit by Westerfield Part 2
Continuation of this post, which got a bit image-heavy. Roof Next, the roof needed slicing with a fresh razor blade and breaking in half. It ended up breaking all the way in half, but a few short pieces of Tamiya masking tape kept it in place for construction. The end walks required brass strips. In…
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D&RGW Fowler Clone Resin Kit by Westerfield Part 1
This time around is my second resin car kit build, a 40′ Fowler clone box car from Westerfield, kit number 6453 [6453 FOWLER SS BOX CAR CLONE, MODERN, D&RG, D&RGW]. Protocraft has some prototype photos, as does Eric Hansmann. Sanding Out The first thing to do in this kit was deal with how thick the…
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Weathering Saga Part 1
In which we begin a self-made crash course on learning how to paint and weather. After a few attempts on two junk cars did not yield acceptable results, I split up a sheet of Evergreen styrene car siding into chunks approximating 1/4 of a box car. These would be the focus of my weathering training.…