I recently purchased an Accurail MR&T (Milwaukee, Racine & Troy) Three-bay Covered Hopper from the Kalmbach Hobby Store. It's been a while since I put a "shake box" kit together. Accurail does a great job with their car kits. They include the right amount of detail for a freight car and the assembly process is fairly straight-forward. I swapped out the wheels with Intermountain 33" metal wheelset and used Kadee whisker couplers instead of the ones in the kit. I've ordered FRA stripes from Smokebox Graphics to bring the car up to 2006 railcar standards. The decals should be here in a few days.
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The MR&T is the fictitious Model Railroader magazine's office layout. This layout is massive. I was able to visit the Model Railroader offices a few years ago on a work trip to Wisconsin. It was on my bucket list to visit the MR&T in person after seeing it in the magazine for decades. The layout did not disappoint!
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