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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…