Model railroad equipment built by the same builder often have similar features. There are a group of common features seen on these cars built by
The leading early American OO manufacturer was Nason Railways (more here). With a complete line on the market in 1934, a very necessary item to
The gondola produced by Nason Railways is a late pre-war model not often seen. It came with printed sides and was available in two versions,
An uncommonly seen model by Nason is their gondola. Introduced in 1940, it took me a while to find even one of these. Then, in
A car I have long puzzled about is the Nason All Service Express Car. It is a 60’ baggage car of a somewhat unusual design
Since last summer I have been working on a project to reproduce a couple of uncommon, classic American OO models in resin castings. In the
A question recently came in related to Baker valve gear hangers. I had, honestly, not paid a lot of attention to valve gear types
This summer I started a project (here) to work out making resin castings of two rare, vintage American OO models, the Graceline quad hopper and
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
Slowly I have been working with the resin castings for the boxcar and hopper, and building up the models. Which has had a learning curve
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