Extra data for Mini-Kit 2025 RPM gift
St. Louis-San Francisco 50-foot, double-door automobile box car
Model and photo by George Toman
This mini-kit includes resin parts to transform an HO scale Roundhouse 50-foot, single-sheathed automobile box car that has a radial roof and end doors.
Col. Chet McCoid photo from Frank Hodina collection
These SL-SF 50-foot automobile boxcars
were built by General
American starting in June 1930 and numbered in the 152600-152899 series. 300 cars are listed in the 1934 ORER. These cars had
Youngstown double side doors for the 12-foot door opening. The
B-end was steel Dreadnaught with a
3/3/3 configuration while the A-end
had a steel door of Dreadnaught
design.
This mini-kit includes the following:
- Resin detail parts
- Custom decals covering renumbering for the prototype number series
The modeler will need to supply the base model, a Roundhouse 50-foot, single-sheathed automobile box car that has a radial roof and end doors; stirrups; assorted wire sizes and grabs; and all other parts to create a finished model.
Resin Car Works would like to thank the following rail historians and modelers for their high quality work. Without their efforts, these kits would not have been produced.
Tom Madden -
for his casting work
Ken Soroos - decal art
George Toman - kit instructions and model photos
The kit instructions can be downloaded through the link below. Right click on the link and save the PDF file to your hard drive.
Mini-kit 2025 RPM gift SL-SF automobile box car instructions (4 MB)
Additional modeling tips were published in Prototype Railroad Modeling, Volume 3, by Speedwitch Media.
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