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South Jersey S Scale Modelers

 

I don’t usually make a project page for such a simple build but I had lots of photos. Plus it is PRSL!

 

 

 

This is a Rex flat car significantly detailed by someone else. It was an eBay buy as shown below maybe 10 years ago.  This was quick 4ish hour diversion project from all the big loco projects I have been doing for the past year. Best of all it was zero dollars - free to me - I had everything I needed. No decoders to buy!

 

 

 

As bought from eBay

  

 

The real PRSL 148 car was a PRR class FM but that is a P I T A to build urethane kit in S. A real PRR FM is at left below. I have made exactly ONE urethane FM in 35 years. The Rex car is diecast and heavy enough to run empty. It is close enough to PRSL 148 for me.

 

I just did some minor repairs  - the brake wheel  and shaft was missing, and a very easy paint job. I used Scalecoat M O W gray and Microscale black Roman alphabet decals.

 

 

 

The weathering is a bit accidental. I did my unusual spray alcohol rusty dusting but it did not dry and stick so I wiped most of it off. I like this better.

 

I want this car for the Overland Burro crane whenever I can get that running because of a cracked gear. See the 3rd prototype photo above.  It is coupled to a PRSL Burro and cabin car. Just the little PRSL M O W train I want to make.

 

 

Revised 6-6-24

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