Among the vintage models I have in my operating fleet is this MKT stock car. It is Scale-Craft and I took it to just be
Some of you may have noted a recent lot that passed through eBay that included a number of sets of Scale-Craft decals. Most of the
I was recently reading about the movement of stock by rail, and it inspired me to look a bit more at some of the vintage
If you have worked on multiple Scale-Craft trucks you have likely noticed that there are several types of wheelsets. My favorite type has a ledge
When Scale-Craft expanded their line of heavyweight passenger cars in 1940, they opted to model a Pullman Solarium car for their observation car. A contemporary
The final three models in this series looking at boxcars and reefers built to operate on the Norfolk & Ohio layout of Carl Appel (more
As noted in several recent posts, before WWII Scale-Craft had a line of decals. Shipped with drawings, these were sized correctly for OO and were
In a recent article I looked at a coupler type that became the standard in American OO, the Kadee coupler. But there were other options
If rarity equals value, should we be giving the Scale-Craft Shell tank car with the original SC decals a bit more respect? Backing up a
As I detail further in the book, Scale-Craft always sold their OO models with decals, and the pre-war decals in particular are unique products. Accurately
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