Hoffman’s was a pre-war manufacturer of OO gauge freight car kits in Philadelphia. Their kits included painted and lettered card sides, wood bodies, and cast
Recognizing at least the most common brands of classic, printed car sides is important to the OO gauger today. I have written about all four
The October, 2008 issue of the Train Collectors Quarterly has an extended, five page article by Ed Morlok on using On3 flex track for running
Transportation Models of New York, NY, announced their new OO gauge venture in December of 1945. They improved and expanded the wartime OO offerings of
This was originally published in the August, 2000 issue of The OO Road. Some of you may know that there is a new, searchable database
One of the most notable things about early Graceline OO production is that models were marketed with sides that were hand lettered at the factory.
Not long ago I had a pair of posts on Hawk. Hawk OO is not common, producing four different cars briefly before WWII. On eBay
Recently I saw on eBay a freight car that was misidentified as being by Eastern. They only made three models, which are all pretty easy
These two cars are great HO cars to convert to OO. First we have the Mantua caboose. From the side this car is OO gauge,
This car was built by Bill Johann, converted from HO in 1997. There is a photo of this conversion in progress in the Feb, 1998
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