I always have projects of varying difficulty in progress, and recently completed this simple one — which took several years to complete. Of course, the
For many years I’ve had in mind that a center cab diesel could worked out in American OO, using an Athearn switcher drive. In a
One of the shortcomings of the original, cast Scale-Craft boxcar is the frame. Besides the poorly executed brake cylinder, there is no depth to the
I’ve been slowly working my way through a large pile up of magazines, I’m way behind on my reading. I recently got to the July,
A tip from blog reader Mike Nickel pointed me toward two recent articles on Scale-Craft published in The O Scale Resource, articles that may both
Continuing my series (which starts here) on building a kitbashed center-cab switcher in American OO (one that has gotten bigger with time, I’m calling it
Continuing from part I, the second article on Lionel OO in the July 2021 issue of The Train Collectors Quarterly is by Peter Atonna. Provocatively
I am way behind on my reading, and just recently in my big stack of magazines got to the July 2021 issue of The Train
In my book there is a section of mystery items. I still have not identified any of them. Al Johnson spotted another example of one
What got me started on this project was I updated a group of Scale-Craft tank cars with K type brake cylinders, using my own soft