I would like to start this description with a picture of my model

and a video on Youtube.

Since a very long time this very nice small Japanese steam engine model is in my stock and never it was in use.

Ready!

My  Decker reefer have got a new life - rebuilt and backdated by a new wood frame and correct details.

Permission given by Jörg Hensel.

Description about rebuilding precess will follow in next posts.

Three new models in my stock ...

... old time 27' drop bottom gondolas of NYO&W where the prototypes were built in 1890.
Nice models but with need of some repairs and additions.

Some time ago I built five such 66' gondolas of Lake Terminal Railroad that were built in 1899 for shipping of new milled 60' girder rails. Models are in HO-scale.

Some years ago I built this 4-truck model with an very realistic load after a picture in MR. Here is a link to picture of original Wabash flat #20006 with its heavy load.

Three more models for my 1900 train - Heinz pickle cars.

My most wished model was a CM reefer with the Indian as a logo. (That was in the time 25 years ago, when the Iron Curtain yet existed and we not have the option to buy in East Germany the loved U.S. railroad models.)

But some day I have got with help of friends one of this kits made by La Belle - an assortment of wood strips and a decal set.

A few years ago I started to add a few scratchbuilt and kitbashed freight cars on my 1900 train. One of the first models was this 50' furniture boxcar that I built from two MDC old-time boxcars.