What works for me in O scale, and probably applies to some smaller scale, is: - Always use two hands. Always. - Pick up trucked cars/locos by the trucks - Gently feel at the contact points to test for

Max Gray and U.S. Hobbies made in O scale a #401 "48 foot mill gondola w. drop ends". I have one and need to identify an owner for purposes of lettering it. The model has a simulated NSF nailable stee

Hi James, I have an O scale Walthers decal set 64-24 for an NdeM box car. According the the painting and lettering diagram in the set, the car body is orange with an approx. 2 foot wide red stripe jus

Someone mentioned here recently that Navy Gas was absorbed into another company in the 1930s. Well, I have a Navy Gas tank car and my era is late 40s - early 50s. One thought is to weather the car hea

This is an Ambroid kit number O-7, the O scale version of H-7. See http://home.att.net/~pers_home/trains/woodkits/Ambroid_H-Cars.htm#H-7 for info on the kit and prototype. I'm attempting to determine

I'm looking for information on uncoupling levers. I know of three types, the Carmer lever, a lever that lifts the pin from the top, and a lever that pushes the pin up from the bottom; there probably w

[snip] Page 52 of Gene Deimling's Southern Pacific Steam Switchers of the Pacific Lines shows SP 0-6-0 1293 switching DT&I hopper 1437. The location given is Tracy, CA; the date given is 1948. Rod Mil

Having recently joined this list, I hadn't heard about this. [snip] [snip] Can someone please expand upon the episode, particularily the issue with the model? Thx Rod Miller

Hi Denny, The method Jerry White showed me was to draw/tape a line that was a specific length in the scale of the image to be enlarged/reduced. E.g., an O scale (1:48) drawing would have a line, say,