HO was dominating the market, but all in all 1953 was still a good year for American OO gaugers. Kicking off the year for
A recent article featured these two cars in progress toward rebuilding, and they are now complete. They are both Graceline cars. They came to
One rare and significant early item in American OO is the original, sand-cast Nason Pullman. Introduced way back in 1934, the model was initially priced
I am very pleased to have authored another article on American OO that has been published in April, 2014 issue of The Train Collectors Quarterly.
A variety of models have been converted from HO to OO. Today the model featured is one such example, a conversion of the AHM (Rivarossi)
With the dispersal of the train collection of the late William Chapin (1927-2013) these track samples by Earle Gardner were mentioned in recent postings in
For several years there has been a post in the Train99 blog about a Nason P5A, the owner wanting to track down the instructions for
Today we have four cars from the work train. Three of these were scratch built by William Gilbert and are lettered for his Grand Island.
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
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