One thing you need on train cars are trucks. Bill Gilbert has been focusing on building a fleet of 19th century cars lately, and with
Recently restored were these tank cars, both kitbashed in August, 1993 by Bill Johann. I have actually a group of 8 different tank cars
As a postscript to the Castings series, beyond the cars I have assembled already, a group of kits were put together from the runs of
The name of James Trout has come up a few times in this site now, but for quick reference he was a longtime Disney illustrator
It is fairly well known in the American OO community that the Mantua/Tyco 4-6-0 is actually a 1/76 scale model, but gauged to run on
The final model of this project has been completed in two versions, standard and open versions of the Graceline quad hopper. In Part V
Since last summer I have been working on a project to reproduce a couple of uncommon, classic American OO models in resin castings. In the
One material used for many pre-war American OO models, especially locomotives, is sand-cast bronze. As implied by the terms used, the mold used to make
A group of cars I look at periodically are ones received a couple years ago that were built by James (Jimi) Trout. Trout was not
A number of modelers in American OO had their own freelanced railroad names. Ed Morlok put together a rather extensive list of these roads in
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