Proto48 is pretty tempting for sure. Scott McDonald

I have monthly op sessions on my Santa Fe Alma branch layout. My layout is 22 1/2 x 30' with seven stations--Burlingame, Harveyville, Bradford, Eskridge, Hessdale, Allendorph, and Alma. I invite three

I am going back to HO and have a large inventory of O Scale. If you are changing to O Scale and are interested please contact me at Smithal9@...

It’s that time of year again. Come on out to the Eastern PA 2 rail O Scale swap meet and train show April 6th, Doors open at 9:00 am. The show is over at 1:00 PM dealers will be open until 1:00 PM

Maybe this was mentioned earlier but here is a very nice Builder's photo of these cars: https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/albums/72157649155982802/with/39766070301/ Bill Welch

Sylvan Scale Models offered etched caboose ladder stiles for their CNR caboose kit They are available again Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

I'd like to see your list. My email is bheinley@.... Thanks-Ben Heinley

Yep, that’s the ticket. Your email, Johannes, came while I was typing out my last message. Schuyler

Somebody used to make etched caboose ladders. They were kind of a bear to assemble but you supplied wire to go through the etched stiles and soldered it all together. The top ends of the stiles were

All, After many years of modeling in HO, my vision no longer will allow me to continue. I’m going to change scale upward and keep building. That said, I have some HO equipment that now needs new

All- Could the cars have been built for the same type of service (aircraft parts) as the XA-14D raised roof single sheathed 50 ft DD Boxcars rebuilt in 1942 for B-26 Marauder wings and later the B-29

As we discussed before, the ends with eight outward ribs were a Murphy product as used on an order of Pere Marquette cars, which in fact this may be because the P&N picked up a lot of second hand

That car is in really good shape for its age. Looks like fresh paint for sure. Thats an interesting car for sure. Scott McDonald

Group, I was in the local Dollar Tree store recently and happened to see some “Military Playset” toys. One of the sets included an Army tank and some sort of short cylindrical apparatus

The P&N ends have eight "outie" ribs on each side, where the W&LE ends have six "innies". Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

After posting the info about the High Point Thomasville and Denton from the Prince book, it occurred to me that the Vulcan end car could likely be a Piedmont & Northern boxcar. Now not so sure as it

Dr. Dave Campbell has re-released these ends on his Shapeways site: The Vulcan vertical-rib end as used on the Wheeling 27000's has been added to my available products at

FWIW, Wine door locks are catalogued on the current Westerfield site. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

I concur. I've used the Westerfield wine locks and they look very good. One other possibility might be Arrowhead Models. I don't know whether Blaine offers detail parts yet but I

Thank you, George, and Mike, for responding so quickly. I’m sure there are others in the group who appreciate these as well. Steve Johnson