Lessons in Passenger Car Modeling – Part 3
bashing in the construction of this car. Instead, building this car is more like assembling a kit (Figures 62-63). Conrail 24 was constructed by the St. Louis Car Company and thus was equipped with “St. Louis-style” ends, which differ from conventional car ends. Number 24’s ends flare from the outer edges to the center of the car and appear to have a rounded appearance.
Modeling Conrail 24 – by M. R. Snell Photos by the author Figure 62. Here’s a shot of Conrail 24, a track geometry train support car.
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hen modeling Conrail 21 and 22, I used laser-cut parts to kitbash an existing model – but what if no model lends itself to this kind of modification? One of the “standards” of passenger car modeling has long been the “core
kit”. Designed to accept either brass or styrene sides, the core kit consists of a roof, floor, and ends – the core of the car. It’s expected that the modeler will add the rest of the parts, matched to the specific prototype car they are building. This was the case when I chose to model Conrail 24, a support car assigned to the Track Geometry Train. Conrail also acquired this car secondhand – it was originally a US Military car constructed in 1952 by the St. Louis Car Company. To model Conrail 24, I elected to use a Train Station Products #807 core kit and full laser-cut sides. However unlike my previous two cars, I don’t need to undertake extensive kit-
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Figure 63. In part 3, I describe how I constructed this model of Conrail 24 using a Train Station Products #807 core kit and full laster-cut sides.
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