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
One current ongoing project is working over freight cars, setting them up in two basic categories, “collection” or “layout,” and from there into groups of
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