All, My wife and I will be vacationing at Ft. Myers Beach in early December.  Are there any decent hobby shops within a reasonable area?  Last time I was in that area I found a hobby shop in Cape

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The regularly scheduled 95/96 trains on the Howard branch ran with a mixed combine until 1960. However, there were occasional stock, rock, and work extra on the branch. In addition, the Howard

Maybe you can let them know that the M53 does not appear on the pull down menu of their order form (all of their other models appear to be on the order form ) Regards, Jim Cummings

I would have liked to be in the Shake and Take group last year, but somehow I missed the call. A stock car is something I can use on my layout. Jared Harper Athens, GA

Jared, In a word... NO. You will not be alone on such a list... limited as it may be. The doodlebug powered mixed trains (#79-80) on the Gridley Branch did not use a caboose. Even when the motorcar

Yes, we are still in business. the car is shown on the front page of the website at www.wrighttrak.com I know that Gary and his wife were going to be updating the page this weekend. Denis

Will I be the only steam era Santa Fe modeler that won't have one of the versions of a steel or wooden caboose on their layout? Jared Harper Athens, GA

I've been trying to order the HO M53/M53A boxcar on their site with no luck. Are they still in business ? Jim Cummings

First and foremost Mont Switzer has just renamed the "Shake N Take 2010" likely because he is a character and maybe because it is our "TEN YEAR" and our Fifth Hands-on Clinic... HERETOFORE we

List, Jim is correct in regard to Champ set HN81 Pittsburgh & West Virgina. When the Champ "Final End of An Era" catalog was issued several years ago, this set was in the process of being revised.

Here is how we stand so far. Remember email me off list. _tgregmrtn@... (mailto:tgregmrtn@...) I will split the list for those that are looking for ends, decals and handout only at a

Hi Greg please consider my request to be considered as a participant.Armand Premo

Greg, I will be there as a consultant, but of course I don't want a kit as I have already built the model. FWIW, our discussion of this model prompted me to build a P2K kit for a DT&I 52'6"

No. The prototype trucks were 70 ton AAR self-aligning spring- plankless double truss. Probably the best representation of these trucks in HO is the Atlas 70 ton plain bearing truck used under

Brian, I have Champ HN-81. It includes the road name, various size reporting marks and end reporting marks, numbers for sides and ends.  It does contain the round herald, whicm mesures out to

This set contains only the reporting marks, numbers, lines, and spelled-out name in 7" lettering, end reporting marks and numbers in 4" lettering, and 30" diameter round P&WV heralds. The symbol

mark_heiden wrote: Mark, the Apex was a rectangular steel grid, the most common type of this material. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

Hello everyone, I'm looking for some information regarding some Erie gondolas in the series ERIE 11000-11599, built January to May 1946. A builder's photo of ERIE 11050 can be found

I have a future project to create a P&WV boxcar from a Proto kit. while researching the options I am coming up thin on P&WV decals. Ted has a set in his kit and Champ still lists the set below. does