George Smozski shared an O scale 1930’s era service station (above) and a PRR GS gondola equipped with extended sides for canstock service (below). These cars were commonly filled with scrap tin from the can- ning line at the HJ Heinz plant in Pittsburgh.
John Ainsworth’s O scale South Shore electric motor–believed to be an old International Models offering from the mid-1950’s–was bought for a song as a basket case. He scratchbuilt many of the detail parts, then added Micro-Mark O scale rivet decals as the model lacked any rivets (above). This handsome Frisco Ten-Wheeler (below) was among four scratchbuilt HO scale steam locomotives that John also displayed.
400 spread across numerous banquet ta- bles. A wide array of steam, diesel, and electric locomotives, freight and passen- ger cars, vehicles, and structures drew the attention of attendees. A healthy slice of N, S, and O scale models comple- mented the large number of HO scale models in the 30′×60′ room. Many mod- els were detailed and weathered follow- ing prototype images and several in- progress projects were also on display.
One modeler displayed over 200 pieces of work across four long tables. Check out a gallery of images at this site: www.
pbase.com/ehansmann/rpmeast_2013.
Those arriving early could sign up for operating sessions on several local layouts. Many of these home layouts were open on Sunday for a self-guided tour as participants headed home. For many, the best part of the meet
was seeing friends from previous events, meeting new people, and shar- ing ideas and techniques to be used on upcoming modeling projects.
While
packed with activity, prototype model- er events have enough time between sessions to sit and talk with other at- tendees and discuss recent accomplish- ments and challenges.
Tom Haag’s models concentrated on the early 1970’s era. This HO scale PRR X29g boxcar was modeled using a Red Caboose X29 underframe and a Branchline Trains 1944 AAR boxcar body with an eight-foot wide door. Details were added and re- moved in this transformation.
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