{"id":3186,"date":"2019-11-08T12:57:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T18:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2019-11-08T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T20:11:00","slug":"2018-mini-kit-fgex-40ft-truss-rod-reefers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/08\/2018-mini-kit-fgex-40ft-truss-rod-reefers\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Mini-Kit: FGEX 40ft Truss Rod Reefers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, the Mini-Kit was once again offered in HO, N, S, and O scales.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Hodina conceived the HO scale kit as a conversion of an Accurail 40ft wood reefer model into an FGEX 40ft truss rod car.  Working off his queue, Mike Skibbe developed conversion parts for S and O scales.  Then, he worked on a complete car body, cast in resin, for the N scale modelers.  <\/p>\n<p>All kits included decals from Ted Culotta once again.  <\/p>\n<p>Several FGEX and similar NP cars were displayed by Karl Andrasko at the 2019 meet, as seen below.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rpmconference.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-25-at-7.43.06-AM.png?resize=791%2C369&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"369\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-25-at-7.43.06-AM.png 791w, https:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-25-at-7.43.06-AM-480x224.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 791px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, the Mini-Kit was once again offered in HO, N, S, and O scales. Frank Hodina conceived the HO scale kit as a conversion of an Accurail 40ft wood reefer model into an FGEX 40ft truss rod car. Working off his queue, Mike Skibbe developed conversion parts for S and O scales. Then, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-mini-kits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rpmconference.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-25-at-7.43.06-AM.png?fit=791%2C369&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sxTY-Po","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpmconference.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}