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D&RGW 18041 Old kits can get a new life — and provide extra modeling opportuni- ties. Jim Kubanick took a 25-year-old E&B Valley kit and rebuilt the ends with brass shapes for the posts, wire grabs, and long handholds, Plano roof running boards, Hi- Tech air hoses, and new brake gear and steps.


NYC


545131 Will Jamison displayed a model of the NYC hot steel gondola with the lettering placed below the floor line to avoid be- ing burned off. He used a blowtorch to weather the steel plate load (actual steel pieces).


It is hard to single out just a few speakers, but we learned about coal mining and coke ov- ens, salt mining, agricultural products, and railroad shipping, tank cars and natural gas prod- ucts, freight cars (both modeling and prototype history), current- day local freight operations, us-


ing timetable and train orders on a layout, and how the U.S. Army hits the rails. Today’s main streets and how to model them, decal preparation and application tips, modeling flatcars and loads, and moving high and wide loads were discussed, along with layout planning, building, and opera-


tions looked at from the point of view of professional railroaders. When you come down to it, sharing is what is behind all this. Whether that means doing a pre- sentation, bringing models for the exhibit room, or just going there and talking with other modelers, it is sharing. This is what these meets are all about. There is also no ques-


tion about the effect they have had on model rail- roading over the past few decades. They have been and remain one of the en- gines moving it forward. The RPM meets are open doors — all are welcome — and they open doors — to better modeling, learning, improving our modeling and research skills, making friend- ships that last a lifetime. Do these sound like they


PRR 1538 From the last order of F7s for the PRR, No. 1538 ran until 1971, keeping its keystone; the large lo- comotive number is from the PC merger. The model is a Highliners shell with the skirts removed, wire grab ladders on the nose, Sinclair antenna, and is the work of Dave Boss.


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