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
H. Temple Nieter was author of the very first article related to American OO gauge that was published in The Model Railroader (in volume 1,
One question that comes up from time to time is what happened, ultimately, to some of the great American OO layouts built in the past,
In the previous post we looked briefly at a pair of Schorr RS-2 models. These were early brass imports made in Japan. However, not every
One thing I have been accumulating in recent years are a few vintage American OO layout photos. I have posted a couple of these already,
One thing probably evident enough to regular readers is that with vintage OO models I find not only the models themselves interesting but also the
I have touched several times in prior posts about post-war New Jersey being a hotbed for American OO. Two individuals that were very active in
With traffic still up after the Morlok auction (yesterday was one of the peak days ever) it seems like a good time to address a
Perhaps the most famous, classic American OO gauge layout was the Norfolk & Ohio of Carl Appel (more here). The photo below is a portion
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