Jim Lancaster researched and documented the wine business of Chateau Martin. His website: http://coastdaylight.com/chatmart/cmwx_roster_1.html contains information about the movement of wine products

I've had the same experience. I believe it was because I used a permanent marker which must contain some solvents. What luck have people had with non-permanent markers?

Photos of the car the Rich Yoder imported can be seen at: www.rodmiller.com/forsale.html#yoder_box

the capital herald), C&O original paint and C&O "For Progress" lettering. Each come in 6 numbers > [snip] I have the Yoder version of this car in O scale for sale. The box label: "1937 AA Standard 40'

Now if California could come up with a foolproof (there's the rub) way to receive money from those who make fun of it, all CA taxes could be done away with. 8-)

In addition to their Bingham pit and Magma smelter/refining, Kennecott Copper also operated pits near Ely, NV and a mill/ smelter at McGill, NV. The ore was moved by KCC owned and operated trains from

The USPS has enough problems without modelers scooping up all its Tyvek envelopes. You don't have to buy a full roll of Tyvek. ebay sellers sell it by the foot. Another option is to watch homes under

Protocraft makes the WP Dispatch lettering in O scale: https://protocraft.com/category.cfm?ItemID=252&Categoryid=20&This_Sub_Sub_Category=WP

The car appears to have been demoted from passenger service. No signal line and steam connections.

Being a 2-rail O scale modeler, I don't know a lot about HO trucks. In O you have to be careful because different mfrs trucks use different axle lengths. So I recommend that before you buy hundreds of

I just tell them I have the model railroading disease which is extremely contagious and fortunately has no cure.

Wonderful photo. About a dozen clicks of the arrow at the right of the image will take you to several views of drop bottom gons, mostly western roads.

Several other SP GS gons in addition to the Pacific Limited gons have been imported and/or are available in O scale. Max Gray and U.S. Hobbies imported G50-16 gons. The MG models have working drop doo

Schuyler, have you used these when soldering? Since they appear to be all plastic they might not survive an encounter with heat. Nelson, hang on to your clothes pins if you use small clips during sold

I am particularly fond of SEM Trim Black designed for use of external automotive trim. It is solvent-based and is available in rattle cans and quarts. It dries to a satin finish. I use it for steam lo

In Morris' book on the SP Slim Gauge, there is a photo of loose ore being transferred by wheelbarrow across the dock to a standard gauge box car where it was shoveled loose onto the floor of the car.

Is it not very bad practice to place a heavy load at one end of a car instead of centering it? Since the scene may be a bad order track, improper positioning of the load could be the cause for the car

I read somewhere that the term FOO originated on the MIT model railroad club. The club used computers that had (old days) simple displays of status using 3 hexidecimal digits (0-9 A-F for a range of 1

The chain and hook, apparently on both sides of the coupler, on the flat car caught my eye. I speculate the car was used in some sort of logging service where the chains would have prevented a train b

Overland Models imported a 2-rail O scale 2-8-4 for various roads. As with several OMI models, it had a cast "white metal" frame. Several of these frames have rotted. I don't know when those models we