O scale modeler Larry Kline built this Western Maryland channel-side hopper car from an old International brass kit. O scale really shows off details, as well as the realism of Larry's paint, lettering, and weathering. Click here for color photo . Andy also displayed a model of the 13-car 1938 20th Century Limited. Prototype modeling isn't all rolling stock.
Some models are more difficult to photograph than others.
Look for this model in an upcoming magazine article. The Pennsylvania Railroad Models of J. M. Johnson John Johnson of Franklin, VA is a devoted modeler of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In fact, almost all of the Pennsy freight cars built in the 1920s through 1940s were unique to the PRR, so to model them accurately you have to be deft at assembling flat-molded resin kits and at scratchbuilding and extensive kitbashing of styrene kits. John Johnson is very good at both, as the following photos illustrate. John Entered this model in the NMRA contest, then brought it upstairs to the RPM room where it won first place in classic era freight cars.