About twenty years ago these two cars came to me in a lot purchase. And they will come back together soon. With the recent
One thing I enjoy is getting vintage cars running again. Today these two cars made their way off the workbench. They are both pre-war
November 9-10, 2013 you will find American OO in operation at Trainfest in Milwaukee, “America’s Largest Operating Model Railroad Show.” A a preview of the
Model Railroad Equipment Corporation put out a large catalog of model railroad supplies (144 pages!) that was first advertised in the December, 1949 issue of
Recently received from Dick Kuehnemund was a scan of an advertisement for Lionel OO that ran in Railroad Magazine. Note the fine print at the
Up today we have the three American OO steel gondola cars you are most likely to encounter, models by produced by Graceline (and later Transportation
I started working in American OO gauge in the late 1970s when I was in high school. I started out in HO. One thing I
One of my projects this summer was painting a number of projects that were on the workbench. I have a simple routine for this work.
In 1947 we really start to see some club action in the OO gauge world. The most visible of the OO clubs was the North
Among projects awaiting their turn was a group of coal loads. The bases for five loads were in the OO Inventory, and I certainly could
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