One thing I had never seen were pre-1939 versions of the instructions for the Scale-Craft 4-6-0. Recently I obtained most of the original 1937 instructions,
There are some interesting things to note with these stock cars, tank cars, and the flat car by Disney artist James (Jimi) Trout. First
A group of cars I look at periodically are ones received a couple years ago that were built by James (Jimi) Trout. Trout was not
A number of modelers in American OO had their own freelanced railroad names. Ed Morlok put together a rather extensive list of these roads in
Some of the casting materials used in OO models (particularly Famoco and Graceline) have a strong tendency to break down over years, depending on the
One topic that has been in the back of my mind is weights and S-C 4-6-0 derived models. On the vast majority of this fairly
Lately a big project has been working through parts. One motivation was to get all the Scale-Craft valve gear parts with the right engines, but
A question recently came in related to Baker valve gear hangers. I had, honestly, not paid a lot of attention to valve gear types
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
Part of my recent push to work on reefers involved these three Scale-Craft reefers. They were all in pretty rough shape and were missing
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