As a postscript to the Castings series, beyond the cars I have assembled already, a group of kits were put together from the runs of
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
It is fairly well known in the American OO community that the Mantua/Tyco 4-6-0 is actually a 1/76 scale model, but gauged to run on
The final model of this project has been completed in two versions, standard and open versions of the Graceline quad hopper. In Part V
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
One material used for many pre-war American OO models, especially locomotives, is sand-cast bronze. As implied by the terms used, the mold used to make
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
Some of the casting materials used in OO models (particularly Famoco and Graceline) have a strong tendency to break down over years, depending on the
One topic that has been in the back of my mind is weights and S-C 4-6-0 derived models. On the vast majority of this fairly
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