For a variety of reasons, it has been a rather slow few months around the layout. But I did get to most of the Phoenix
As outlined in Part I, imitating Alco, this conversion used overscale AHM HO S-1 models and reworked them as the basis of an OO gauge
A very recent purchase was this highly interesting American OO model built by Bill Johann. It was part of a group of identical models he
Some years ago I posted a short article (here) that mentioned my second American OO locomotive was a modified AHM Plymouth MDT Diesel. It is
At any given moment I have a lot of projects going. Too many. Certain things will focus me in. With the summer heat I have
Back a couple years ago I posted about how OOldtimers like Fred Schorr and Pierre Bourassa had rebuilt Ulrich HO “war emergency” gondolas into OO
Quite a number of times in this site I’ve made reference to converting Tyco/Mantua trucks to OO, using a method first described in The OO
Among the models I operate frequently are a group that are to varying degrees underscale for OO but overscale for HO. With my recent truck reworking project,
Back a few years ago I had a post on the modern hopper cars that Bill Johann put together from HO Tyco models. I’ve now
A recent eBay find was this nice composite gondola lettered for the Yorkville & Western of Fred Schorr. I have two other models of this
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