al sprues containing brake step, lateral roof walk supports and corner stirrups, and plastic parts for the brake wheel, air hoses and turn buckles. A plastic sprue by the Tichy Train Group is in- cluded for AB brake components. The kit includes plastic Buckeye ARA 50-ton truck frames by Tahoe Model Works. Wheel sets, couplers and weight are not included in the kit. Accurate de- cals by Black Cat include the distinctive Wabash paint stencil logo, a selection of road numbers, 13 repack dates and 12 reweigh dates from 1936 to 1960 with weigh station codes XD (Decatur, Illi- nois) and NE (Moberly, Missouri). A let- tering diagram with the decals illus- trates their appropriate locations. Construction of the kit is straightfor-
ward with the most time consuming steps being installing the wire grab irons and the brake system. A seven- page sheet of instructions includes five photos of the prototype and 14 con- struction photos of the model. The in- structions are rather sparse and as- sume the modeler has prior experience building resin kits. A list of the kits parts is not included.
As is typical with resin kits, a small amount of flash must be removed from around the resin castings. The resin castings of the sides and doors accurate- ly represent the slats of the stock car. To prepare these slatted castings for model
assembly it is necessary to remove the resin flash from between the slats. The most efficient way to do this is by first sanding the backs of the castings. Place a side casting face-up on a large fresh sheet of coarse sand paper on a flat surface. Hold the casting against the sand paper with your fin- gers spread apart. Carefully rotate the casting on the sand paper. Stop period- ically to inspect the casting to deter- mine if the remaining flash between the slats is thin enough to be translu- cent. Repeat with your fingers in a dif- ferent position. Be careful not to sand so much as to damage the slats. Stop sanding when satisfied that the re- maining flash is translucent. Using a sharp-pointed knife, poke out the re- maining translucent flash from be- tween the slats. To weight the model, a flat metal weight (not included) can be glued to the top of the underframe casting before in- stalling it into the assembled carbody. It is best to drill and tap holes in the un- derframe casting for the couplers and trucks before installing the weight and floor casting. The sides of the under- frame casting need to be sanded to fit snugly between the side sills. Holes must be drilled for installing the pre-formed wire grab irons. Small depressions indicate where the holes are to be drilled. The side and end lad-
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