I was recently reading about the movement of stock by rail, and it inspired me to look a bit more at some of the vintage
Both of these gondolas are recent completions/restorations, eBay purchases, and both are riding on Graceline trucks. The car in the front is visually identical to
Drover’s caboose models have been scratchbuilt in American OO a few times, one being visible in the published layout photos of the Norfolk and Ohio
There are some interesting things to note with these stock cars, tank cars, and the flat car by Disney artist James (Jimi) Trout. First
With the end of summer I’ve needed some simpler projects, and went back to the collection of cars built by James Trout to do some
The name of James Trout has come up a few times in this site now, but for quick reference he was a longtime Disney illustrator
A group of cars I look at periodically are ones received a couple years ago that were built by James (Jimi) Trout. Trout was not
A number of modelers in American OO had their own freelanced railroad names. Ed Morlok put together a rather extensive list of these roads in
I was at a train show a couple weekends ago and noted on a big HO modular layout they were running a long ATSF streamliner,
Several recent posts have featured models by James Trout. These two are also Trout models and I believe when new were outstanding models. Then
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