This unusual model is an example of the sulfur gondola produced just before WWII by the Hawk Model Company of Chicago. As I mentioned in
Some models I obtain mainly thinking it is cheap, I’ll do a quick rebuild and try to sell it. Then the project takes a good
One thing I can respect from the OOldtimers is that they could take a project and go! One example is this string of 50’ double
Besides the full floor castings seen on Lionel boxcars, the Nason cast boxcar, and a number of Scale-Craft models (boxcars, stock cars, and late style
Hawk, in the years right before WWII, briefly produced a line of OO scale freight car kits. Of those, the boxcar is I think the
Thanks to a link from an O gauge forum the topic of Hawk OO has been getting a bit of traffic lately. Thus, this is
Four more cars from my recent push to finish some projects were a Hawk Boxcar and three Hawk Gondolas. These first two cars may
One firm to produce a line of OO gauge freight car kits the early 1940s was Hawk. These I think were their best two OO
One car I had wondered about and had seen reference to is the tank car made by Hawk. I have yet to see one but
Regular reader Ed Havens provided photos of a nicely built up outside braced boxcar, with the question who made it? First, taking a look at
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