2013 St. Louis area RPM meet
The Chicago Great Western rebuilt general service flats into articulated pairs for agricul- tural implement shipping by installing a draw- bar and bridge plates between them to allow loading from the ends. The cars came from Oelwein Shops in the early 1960’s, and ten were still on the roster in 1978, listed under CNW but lettered for CGW. CGW 2155 (left) is an HO scale example built by Jason Klocke using Proto 2000 kits, styrene and Detail As- sociates rivets on the plates. The correctly tied-down tractors are from Athearn. Hands- on weathering demonstrations were also part of the meet. As Dave Schroedle was leading a session with John Alaniva (below), he added another boxcar to his fleet. Dave uses oils and is coaching John along on his Walthers RF&P gondola. He uses a 50:50 lacquer thin- ner-Dullcote mix for the final overspray.
enough to make it possible to see all of them after dinner. As usual, selected vendors were there with photos, models, kits and supplies, which explains why my little carry-on duffle bag was heavier on the way home.
The photos here are just a small sam- ple of what was on the tables, but they show the vitality and diversity of this part of the hobby. What they only hint at is how much one gains from attending a “prototype meet.” Learning new tech- niques or the history of a car type, loco- motive or railroad (even if they are not your main modeling interest) is part of it, but only part. You make friends at these meets, and you look forward to see- ing them, even just once or twice a year. Go and see for yourself. Oh, and be sure to bring a model or two along.
CSXT 226692 (below) is a work-in-progress shown by Jeremy St. Peters. It is an r-t-r Athearn Centerflo covered hopper being weath- ered to match a photo from the Internet. Jason Klocke’s scrap load (below right) is just that, old and rusty freight car door seals picked
up along a local rail siding. To create the appearance of painted metal in the load he uses Crayola®
brand colored pencils and just
goes back and forth over the rough metal strips. The strips are cut up with scissors and a dusting of Pan Pastels finishes the job.
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