I was very recently able to purchase five more issues of The Model Craftsman from 1934, which shed a bit more light on the situation
I spotted a couple items I wanted in a recent eBay lot and with them got a few items I was not as interested in,
Today I have two mysteries that I think won’t be so easy to solve. They both came to me very recently in purchases of parts.
I like to feature in American OO Today articles on history and collecting and articles on projects readers could construct themselves. Today we have the
Lightning quiz–what manufacturer made the first OO gauge tank car? Lionel? No, theirs came out in 1938. Scale-Craft? No, it was not advertised until late
These sharp looking green cabooses were built by Pierre Bourassa and have been getting good mileage in on my layout recently. They are both modified Nason
Those readers with some knowledge of models produced in American OO on reading the title will think something like “Fred Schorr imported from Japan a
While rail sizes today are commonly referred to by “code” (which I will come back to) prior to that the NMRA set a series of
In a recently purchased magazine I noted a spread on p. 43 of the August, 1956 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman on a group of
After more or less tying up the project of organizing the SIG Inventory I moved on to trying to start what I hoped to be
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