PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR


2013 St. Louis area RPM meet T


A look at a few of the excellent models on display/William C. Schaumburg


wo hundred and sixty-five model- ers brought approximately 1,350 models to the seventh edition of


the St. Louis Railroad Prototype Model- ers Meet over August 2nd and 3rd, again making it one of the best model railroad- ing weekends of the year. Held at the Gateway Convention Center in Collinsville, Illinois, about a dozen miles east of St. Louis, they shared their mod- els and ideas through the displays, just


USLX 26149 (top) is an ExactRail HO scale model of a 4,780 cu. ft. Evans-built covered hopper weathered by Jeremy St. Peter, one of the group known as The Weathering Shop. This started as a pre-painted car for Juniata Farmers Coop. For weathering Jeremy uses artist’s oils, a flat overspray and A.I.M. pow- ders. The twelve members of The Weather- ing Shop are spread “across everywhere” and use the St. Louis-Collinsville RPM as their annual meeting. Rick Sprung’s Milwau- kee Road storage mail car (above) copies the road’s rebuilding of baggage cars for bags of mail. Number 1973 was converted in 1949 and is in the post-1956 passenger scheme. The model is a Rivarossi car with modified doors, steps and couplers and is custom painted and lettered. His F7 set (un- decorated Stewart) is peeking out from be- hind it. Mike Ferris used scratchbuilt and Custom Finishing, Detail Associates and De- tails West parts on his Athearn passenger- equipped IC GP9 (left). Mike painted the unit with Polly Scale; the decals are from Mi- croscale oversprayed with Alclad clear.


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