ITC Boxcar


Left : Craig Zeni of North Carolina built this Illinois Terminal Railroad Company 36-foot boxcar from a Sunshine Models resin kit. The ITC had 100 of these single-sheathed cars, and Craig notes some of them survived in interchange service into the early 1960s.


HO Gas Station


Above: Mike Evans is modeling the Delaware & Hudson line running east from Whitehall, New York, to Rutland, Vermont. He scratchbuilt this HO-scale model of a gas stati on near the tracks in Fair Haven, Vermont, as it appeared in the early 1950s. The convincing screen in the front door was cut from a silken tea pouch — a plasti c mesh bag for steeping whole-leaf tea.


Alco S-2m Above: RPM att endees oft en share models that are works in prog- ress like the interesti ng “prototype kitbash” shown here. This model will eventually become a black-and- yellow Atlanti c Coast Line Alco S-2m — a remanufactured switcher that combined an S-2 frame and cab with an EMD switcher hood and prime movers from EMD E-units. To model this, Dale Kritzky of Connecti cut fol- lowed the prototype’s lead, starti ng with an Atlas Alco S-2 frame and cab and adding a LifeLike / Proto 2000 SW9 hood. Some styrene strip helped raise the hood to the proper height. Dale plans to chop the hood stacks to match the height of the cab roof and add other details. He’ll upgrade the handrails with brass stanchions from Smokey Valley Railroad Products and phosphor bronze wire from Tichy. And, yes, he plans to replace the X2F couplers!


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