Another recently completed project was this gondola, one that a Lionel collector might find amusing. It was built using sides from a seller on eBay
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
Back in 2018 I posted about how I went about putting a drive in a Hallmark-Lionel F3. A collectable item produced by Hallmark in 1999
While the track on my own layout is hand laid with Code 100 rail, not everyone has time (or skill) for that. Besides the various
As noted in several recent posts, before WWII Scale-Craft had a line of decals. Shipped with drawings, these were sized correctly for OO and were
In a recent article I looked at a coupler type that became the standard in American OO, the Kadee coupler. But there were other options
The March 2022 Railroad Model Craftsman contains an article, reprinted from their November 1936 issue, on building an OO scale hopper. Which is a neat
One line of OO products covered in the book (p. 158), but not mentioned yet in this updated website,** are the wood boxcar (SP) and
In a recent YouTube video Chris noted that his hopper cars from the layout of Carl Appel (of Norfolk and Ohio fame) had an early
Or, how do we get more model railroading done? A big difference between then and now is less screen time. In the peak time for
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