This tidy 2-6-0, Yorkville and Western #51, was built by Ed Schorr (son of OO importer Fred Schorr), who recently sent me this photo. On
The Norfolk & Ohio is considered to be one of the great model railroads of any scale seen in print in the 1950s, the second
Working on the history of American OO it is such a mixed bag of what information exactly has come to me. At this point I
HO was dominating the market, but all in all 1953 was still a good year for American OO gaugers. Kicking off the year for
In 1947 we really start to see some club action in the OO gauge world. The most visible of the OO clubs was the North
Today we have a treat, three different vintage OO layout photos featuring locomotives on bridges. First up is this relatively recent photo of a
Among recent materials received were a number of articles clipped from magazines. Among those were a group of “Collector Consist” articles from Railroad Model Craftsman
In April and May of 1945 we have a couple of the most curious advertisements ever run in the model railroad press. I first noticed
Starting the year out with a bang, three different OO layouts were seen in the January, 1944 issues of The Model Craftsman and The Model
According to the Wikipedia, “in late 1943 the U.S. Office of Defense Transportation contracted with the Pullman Company to build 2,400 troop sleepers, and with
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