Updating a post from a few months ago (here), I finally have the completion (and light restoration) of a prewar Graceline reefer, the type with
Ending this brief series of recent finds posts, this Graceline reefer recently came to me with some other items. Besides it being a relatively
I try to keep some projects moving through the workbench, and these two rebuilding projects are among those completed recently. The Scale-Craft reefer is
A recent article featured these two cars in progress toward rebuilding, and they are now complete. They are both Graceline cars. They came to
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
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
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.
According to the Wikipedia, “in late 1943 the U.S. Office of Defense Transportation contracted with the Pullman Company to build 2,400 troop sleepers, and with
To the review first, this model was reviewed briefly in the May, 1939 issue of The Model Railroader, as follows: This B&O OO gauge freight
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