Mantua Catalog MANTUA's catalog, that cost five bucks twenty years ago, has exploded, labelled, drawings (some with multiple images for given...
Flatcars for Transporting Military Armored Vehicles & Such Hello namesake and happy this year; I don't know from your reply what, when, and...
Alleged ship "Puffer" model A) The website gives you dimensions. B) Scot "Puffers" were not made as teeny weeny 68 footers. This kit is...
Green's OK There principal competitor also indulged in green paint on select main passenger locos circa 1920-30. The problem, as I remember...
Use 'T' scale for 1& half inch scale As far as I know all the 'T' gauge stuff ( 3mm gauge track) only comes as EMUs , but if you want a kiddie...
Viaducts, NYC line to St.John's Park, Etc. Go urban industrial, place all track on elevated viaducts that enter commercial structures at above...
Term Clarifications and Layout Location of Elements Hello: Are we to assume that you have a stretch of double track with two pair of turnouts...
It is clear that what I regard as history is not to be found within the devotion to trivia displayed by the folks running the organization...
PowerPacks from everyone Else With all due respect to your buddy, welding trains to the track is not exactly an accomplishment with a DC...
I think it is worth mentioning our homegrown 'HO' scale megalayout in New Jersey. Not as big as Hamburg's or perhaps as interesting as some...
'HO' EP-5s from FRATESCHI FRATESCHI , the Brazilian model train maker whom Model Power has gotten some locos made by with US paint schemes...
Dry Transfer Removal If you haven't painted them down, and you are talking about a simple transfer, all you do is erase the offending digit or...
Remotoring Old Rivarossi Articulateds, and RR parts See: < Micro Loco Motion > "Wes Barris' Steam Locomotive" site, surprisingly, has an...
Milwaukee Road Narrow Gauge You might consider modeling the narrow gauge Milwaukee lines. I suggest that because: of the profusion of 'O'n (3'...
Recently I mentioned structures available to supplement the rather expensive selection marketed in 'Z' scale. While the need for such is less...
Buildings with Stone/Brick or Molded Plaster Standins Regardless of the route chosen any use of vitreous materials takes you into another kind...
CIRCUS and STATE FAIRS Only big operators put show trains on the road. There is but ONE circus operator using railroads currently. Not since...
Military Modules? or 'HO' Military Equipment? Modern? There is, or was the last time I saw it, a military module on the big traveling layout of...
The Issue is Normally the Space Used...BUT Hi: The issue comparitively is the amount of linear space occuppied by larger numbered turnouts than...
'Z' scale kits are notably expensive viz. other modelling scales. This is especially noticeable with respect to photochemically etched metal...
