What’s neat column - 3
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3-4: Penn Central X72-A started life as a Proto 1000 novelty
car lettered for Dick Tracy! The paint was stripped and all of
the cast details were scraped off. New ladders and details
from Branchline and Moloco, and scratchbuilt components,
were added for the ultimate “silk purse from a sow’s ear”.
The X72 and X72-A were general service boxcars the PC, and
subsequently Conrail, used for decades.
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5a-5b: Conrail transfer caboose #18467 is a kitbash project
with the shell built for me by David Lederhouse. The stan-
chions are white metal castings and all of the railings and
other details are scratchbuilt with exception of the propane
tanks which fueled the updated heating systems. This is a
model of an N-11E, part of a series of 75 cabooses built at
the Despatch Shops in East Rochester, NY in 1969. They
were the first transfer cabooses built by the PC on new
underframes.
5a
MRH-Oct 2013
