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Potential HO Scale Equipment Roster for K&W/Wabash/K-Line layout

Above: Double-sheathed box car GRYX 1018, with impressive billboard lettering for Empire Fuel Company in Centerville, IA, Circa early 1930's. Note the roof hatches, presumably for loading coal. - Grace Tank Car Lines Photo, Charlie Vlk Collection

CB&Q Freight Equipment

CB&Q Box cars:

Class XA-7/8 40' SS Automobile box: Sunshine #22.6 kit
Class XA-11A 40' SS Automobile box: Sunshine #22.8 kit
Class XA-14/14A 50' SS Automobile box: Sunshine #22.3 or 22.4 kit
Class XM-17 40' DS truss rod uf box: Westerfield #8952 or 8953 kit
- CBQ 111407 from Westerfield kit, Intermountain Andrews trucks with modified bolsters, Champ Burlington Route heralds, model by Rob Adams
Class XM-18 40' DS truss rod uf box: Westerfield #8952 or 8953 kit
Class XM-21/22/23 40's SS box: Future kit???
Class XM-24: Westerfield #3811 USRA DS kit, Champ heralds (Accurail, Ertl also have models of this prototype)
- CBQ 120537 from Westerfield kit with Accurail Andrews trucks, Champ Burlington Route heralds, model by Rob Adams
Class XM-25 40' SS box, 7-8 Murphy ends: Speedwitch K106.1 kit (or Accurail stand-in)
Class XM-26 40' SS box, 7-8 Murphy ends: Speedwitch K106.1 kit (or Accurail stand-in)
Class XM-28 40' SS box, Dreadnaught ends: Sunshine #57.3 kit
Class XM-29 40' SS box, Dreadnaught ends: Sunshine #65.2 kit

CB&Q Composite gondolas:

Class GA-15: Modifed Intermountain 41601 kits (alternatives include Proto 1000 plastic model, brass models by Oriental Ltd and Precision Scale)
Class GS-5/7/8: Sunshine #33.1 kits

CB&Q Open hoppers:

Class HK AC&F Hart Selective Ballast Hopper - Challenger Imports Ltd. Catalog #2385.1
Class HT-5: Scratchbuilt or modified Athearn kit, Jerry Hamsmith decals

CB&Q Stock cars:

SM-16: Sunshine 54.5 kits (Also Challenger Imports brass model)
SM-17A: Scratchbuild
SM-18: Sunshine 54.5 kits (Also Challenger Imports brass model)

CB&Q Flat cars:

FM-8
FM-9
FM-10
FM-11/11A: Sunshine Models mini-kit
- CBQ 91840 circa 1935, collection of Rob Adams
FM-12: Modified Northern Specific Models NP 52' flat kit or W&R Enterprises brass model

Foreign Road Equipment

Box cars:

Ann Arbor 40' USRA SS box 12000/90000-series: Westerfield #3319 kit
Ann Arbor 69600-series 40' DS box: Scratchbuild
Ann Arbor 69000-series 36' DS box: Scratchbuild
Atlantic Coast Line 40' Ventilated box: Westerfield #7002 kit
B&O M-15H DS box car with Indestructible ends: Westerfield #5052 kit
B&O M-15K wagon top steel rebuild - Sunshine kit or Overland model
B&O M-26A box car: Red Caboose ARA plate end box car kit
B&O M-26D/E box with Duryea underframe: Speedwitch #KC102XA conversion with Red Caboose ARA plate end box car kit
B&O M-27 Automobile box: Sunshine #58.1 kit
Canadian National 36' Fowler Patent box car: Speedwitch K104.1 kit
C&O 40' Automobile box: Funaro & Camerlengo #6770 kit
CGW 1931-built X29-like ARA box car with plate ends: Modified Red Caboose #7048 kit
C&IM Mather box: Proto 2000 kit, modified end sills and KC brakes
C&NW USRA SS: CNW 144648 from upgraded Tichy kit, lettered with Westerfield #3304 decals, herald and reporting mark numerals from Microscale #87-735 decal set. (Could also use Westerfield #3304 kit to model this car)
Central of Georgia Ventilated box car: CGHS resin kit
Central of Georgia USRA SS rebuild with steel sheathing, radial roof: Speedwitch Media kit
D&RGW Fowler clone: Westerfield #6453 kit, Modernized in 1930's w/plain mullion roof, retained KC brakes
Delaware & Hudson modified USRA SS: Westerfield kit with DPH Viking roof
Great Northern 40' truss rod DS: Westerfield or F&C kits
Great Northern 40' USRA DS: Westerfield or Ertl
Green Bay & Western 40' SS box: Sunshine 47.4 kit
GRYX 1018, with billboard lettering for Empire Coal company in Centerville, IA - scratchbuild or kitbash, develop lettering set
Illinois Central B-50-4 modernized: Westerfield #1753 kit
Illinois Central Single-sheathed: Funaro and Camerlengo
Illinois Central Single-sheathed: Sunshine #57.2 kit
M&StL USRA DS: Westerfield #3816 USRA DS kit
- M&StL 22518 from Westerfield kit with Accurail Andrews trucks, model by Rob Adams
M&StL 40' Fowler Clone: Westerfield kit, #6456 modernized
Milwaukee SS: Sunshine 47.1 kit
Milwaukee USRA SS: Westerfield #3311 kit
Missouri Pacific 40' SS: Westerfield #1951 kit
Missouri Pacific 40' SS auto box: Westerfield #1901 kit
Missouri Pacific 40' SS 90500 series box, wood doors, Dreadnaught ends: Sunshine #80.3 kit
Missouri Pacific 40' 1932 ARA steel: Sunshine or F&C kit
Mobile & Ohio 34' SU box: Westerfield #4154 kit
NC&StL 36' Fowler box: Westerfield #4355 kit
NYC USRA SS: Westerfield #3305 kit
NYC USRA Steel box: Westerfield #2901 kit
Northern Pacific 36' truss rod DS: F&C kit
Northern Pacific 41' Single sheathed box car #20287 w/KC brakes, W&R Enterprises brass model
Northern Pacific 40' DS: Sunshine 52.4 kit
Northern Pacific 40' 9480 series DS box: Sunshine #77.5 kit
Northern Pacific 50' SS Automobile car: Speedwitch #K103.1 kit
Peoria and Eastern NYC USRA Steel box: Westerfield #2906 kit
PMcK&Y 40' USRA steel rebuild: Modified Tichy kit with CDS lettering, KC brakes, Andrews trucks
PRR XL box: Modified Westerfield #1315 kit
PRR X23: Westerfield #10052 kit, old door, new roof
PRR modified X26 USRA SS: Westerfield #3356 kit, Hutchins roof, Youngstown doors
PRR X29: Red Caboose #7010 kit, model both CRECO and Youngstown door versions, also later Dreadnaut end version
Rock Island 40' Fowler: Westerfield #6401 1913 WC&F, #6402 1915 Bettendorf, #6405 1915 Haskell & Barker
Rock Island 40' USRA DS: Westerfield or Ertl Santa Fe BX-O, DS end, modernized: Westerfield #7863 kit
Rock Island 40' SS Automobile box, CRI&P 159250-159899 series, Rocket Express #RI-2 kit
Rock Island 50' F3 Automobile box: Westerfield #5651 kit
SLSF 40' USRA DS: Westerfield #3810 kit, (Accurail or Ertl substitutes)
Santa Fe BX-0 box, modernized DS end: Westerfield #7863 kit
Santa Fe BX-3 40' DS box car: Westerfield #3601 kit
Santa Fe BX-Z 36' DS box car: Westerfield #1401 kit
Soo Line Sawtooth SS box car with wood doors & Murphy Ends: Sunshine #78.1 kit
Southern 34' SU box: Westerfield #4151 kit
Southern Pacific 1937 AAR steel; Red Caboose
Union Pacific B-50-1 double-sheathed box car: Westerfield #1754 kit
Union Pacific B-50-19 steel rebuild, Sunshine Preferred Stock kit,
Union Pacific B-50-20, 50' single-sheathed box car: Westerfield #5901 or 5951 kit
Union Pacific B-50-21 1937 AAR box: Red Caboose #8040 kit
Wabash 75000-series 36' Fowler single sheathed
Wabash USRA DS: Westerfield #3820 kit, (Accurail or Ertl substitutes)
Wabash 82000-series DS steel rebuild: modified Tichy#4028 kit with Sunshine mini-kit and decals, Kadee Vulcan trucks
Wabash single-sheathed automobile box: Funaro & Camerlengo kit, or Overland model
Wheeling & Lake Erie, steel plate end X29 clone box: Red Caboose #7016 kit

Refrigerator cars

ART wood
ART 22979-23999 series steel reefer: Modified Intermountain R40-10 kit, Champ or OddBalls
ART 24000-24099 series steel reefer, horizontal seam: Intermountain/MPHS/Amarillo RR Museum kit with minor modifications
BREX Reefer: Modified Accurail kits, Microscale decals
BREX 78200 series Truss rod wood reefer - Sunshine #34.14 kit
Cudahy Sunshine reefer: Modified MDC reefer, or scratchbuilt, Decals???
CX Reefer: Modified Accurail kit, Microscale decals
FGEX 32000-35999 Series 1921 design wood reefer - Sunshine #34.1 kit
FWDX Reefer: Modified Accurail kits, Microscale decals
GN/WFEX AC&F reefer: Modified Westerfield 6002 kit
WRX Green Bay & Western reefer: Modified Branchline #1211 kit
KKCX 4300 Keokuk Canning Company, BREX ex-78200 series 40' truss-rod uf: Modified Sunshine #34.14 kit
Mather MUNX Reefer: Red Caboose kit with silver roof, modified end sills, wire grabs
NWX North Western Refrigerator Line: Modified Branchline #1215 kit
PFE R30-1/2: Modified Westerfield #1851/1852 kits
PFE R30-4/6: Modified Westerfield #4952 kits
PFE R30-12: Modified Red Caboose #4001 kit with wire grabs, Westerfield UP shield decal
PFE R40-2/4: Modified Tichy #4024 kit
SFRD steel rebuilds - Intermountain #41199 kit, Champ decals

Gondolas:

Illinois Central USRA 40': Intermountain kit
New York Central 40' USRA steel clone, Wood floor, Murphy ends: Sunshine #67.29 kit
New York Central USRA Mill gondola: Westerfield #8102 kit
Milwaukee composite: Westerfield #2501 kit
Minneapolis & St. Louis 40' USRA : Intermountain #41611 kit
Missouri-Kansas-Texas 40' 1930-built, 8 post steel gon, Dreadnaught ends: Sunshine #67.34 kit
Missouri Pacific USRA 40': Intermountain #41603 kit
PRR GRa composite: Westerfield #4502 kit
- PRR 335578 at Keokuk, IA circa 1940
PRR G25 USRA Mill gondola: Westerfield #8103 kit
Rock Island modernized inside stake, truss-rod gondola, Westerfield #10653 kit
SLSF modified USRA per Martin Lofton RMC article

Hoppers

Ann Arbor USRA-type 30500-30599 series 50-ton hopper, built 12/1929: Tichy #4027 or Accurail kit, AAR trucks, Modified WRHS decals or CDS dry transfers
Missouri Pacific - Kadee #7001 undec AAR hopper
Missouri Pacific modified 1929 ARA quad hopper, converted to covered hoppers in 1937: Converted Athearn kit, with scratchbuilt roof, Oddballs #278 decals - See RP Cyc #5
- MP 1931 and MP 1940 at Keokuk, IA circa 1940
CABX Cabot Spheron Carbon Black hopper - Funaro & Camerlengo #6310-6312 kit or Rail Shops kit with F&C decals
Wabash rebuilt USRA type 34000-series 50-ton panel-side hopper (ex-31000-series): Tichy#4029 kit with Andrews trucks, WRHS decals
Wabash USRA-type 35000-series 55-ton hopper (original): Tichy #4027 or Accurail kits (x2), Andrews trucks, WRHS decals
Wabash USRA-type 35000-series 55-ton panel-side hopper (rebuilt 1933): Tichy #4029 kit with Andrews trucks, WRHS decals
Wabash 55-ton 36000-36424 series panel-side hopper, built 1937: Stan Rydarowicz panels for Athearn kit with WRHS decals

Stock cars:

Mather MUNX 40' stock car: Modified Proto 2000 kits, with KC brakes, one or two with truss rod underframe
Milwaukee stock car: Westerfield #8201 kit
Missouri Pacific 53000-53214 series stock car: Westerfield #8804 kit
Wabash 15000-15399 series stock car: Overland Models #3264 model, with Mark Vaughan decals

Flat cars

C&NW 42' flat: Red Caboose RC-2205 kit
NC&StL 40' flat: Tichy #4021 kit with Champ HC-646 decals
New Haven 17200 series 50's welded flat: Speedwitch Media K102.1 kit
Northern Pacific 52' flat: Northern Specific Models kit with Speedwitch Media decals
NYC 42' flat: Red Caboose RC-2203 kit
PRR flat (class??)
Pere Marquette 42' flat: Red Caboose #2245 kit
Rock Island 42' flat: Red Caboose #2208 kit

Tank cars

Conoco AC&F Type 21 8,000 gallon: Proto 2000 kit modified with KC brakes
FTCX Fleischman Horizontal wood vinegar tank car: Sunshine 60.1 kit
GATX AC&F Type 21 8,000 gallon: Proto 2000 kit modified with KC brakes
GATX General American 8,000 gallon: Overland model with KC brakes?
Hubinger GATX 8000 gallon: ???
- GATX 7386 and another at Keokuk, IA circa 1940
Kanotex AC&F Type 21 8,000 gallon #8212: Proto 2000 kit modified with KC brakes
Kanotex AC&F Type 21 two dome 8,000 gallon: Kitbashed Proto 2000 kit, with second dome added and modified with KC brakes
Magnolia AC&F Type 21 10,000 gallon: Proto 2000 kit modified with KD brakes
Mid-Continent (DX) AC&F Type 21 10,000 gallon tank: Proto 2000 kit, modified with KC brakes
SHPX AC&F Type 27 10,000 gallon: Intermountain kit modified with KC brakes
SHPX AC&F Type 21 8,000 gallon: Proto 2000 kit modified with KC brakes
Sinclair AC&F Type 21 10,000 gallon tank: Proto 2000 kit, modified with KC brakes
UTLX Type X-3: Sunshine 62.x kits

Track and right of way

Code 70 mainline, code 55 sidings and spurs, limestone, slag and cinder ballast
Manual turnout control from fascia, powered turnouts with Tortoise machines

Electrical system

Digitrax Super Chief digital command control
Sound modules for all motive power (eventually)