One piece of information that was never revealed in Scale-Craft advertising was the physical street addresses of their factories in Libertyville, IL. But now I
One thing I have found that I have had to do as an American OO enthusiast is from time to time recreate lost knowledge. In
While their OO line was not introduced until 1937, Scale-Craft had been a leader in the scale model railroad industry for some time even by
It might not be the burning question of the ages, but I was very interested to recently see noted clearly on a set of drawings
After years of not owning any models with the early Scale-Craft 24 volt DC motor I have for almost two years had two on the
A recent eBay purchase confirmed something I had wondered, did Walthers actually produce OO decals that differed from their HO decals? Exhibit “A” is
For part II we have two more refrigerator cars built by Howard Winther that are a bit easier to identify. These two cars both look
Today in the series of vintage American OO photos I have two more from the layout of OO enthusiast and manufacturer Fred Schorr. First up is
Very recently, thanks actually to a tip (thank you!) I was able to purchase a complete set of the Scale-Craft Blow-Smoke newsletters. The first issue
Two of these matching Scale-Craft stock and hopper cars were completed in the 1980s—can you guess which ones? To get right to it, the
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