You're right. They've also gone and rereleased the hudson in HO too. For some reason it isn't listed on their American site, but you can find it...
I think Rivarossi's tooling went all over after they went bankrupt. I think Mehano picked up a couple of HO items. Although this might have...
With the cars lowered it is a pretty good match. The cab of early American locomotives sits pretty low. While it might not look right, it's...
Depends on how large the run is I guess. I'll take a wild guess here that there is probably only about $5 to $10 worth of raw material in each...
I just read this thread since it came back up to the top. Nice runner - but I'm going to have to make a rivet counter grumble about it: extended...
The only one of those that is really unconventional is the cab forward. The Big Boys though remarkable for their size are fairly conventional in...
I honestly don't think manufacturers give that much thought to requests. They look for prototypes that will have wide appeal, and can be used...
This is why I don't understand how nobody can be making a PRR K4! The old minitrix ones sell for near their original prices (and sometimes over)...
That is a rather narrow point of view to take. First it assumes everybody cares or should care about prototypical accuracy. Which doesn't...
You haven't explained why it matters. You just stated that it does. In any event stuff made to day is pretty much all better than stuff made 30...
Actually lead has not been used except in trace amounts since before WWII for such castings. Most of the older ones were some sort of zinc alloy,...
Given the extended smokebox and normal looking stack, starting with the bachman "119" may be a better way to build a modernized Jupiter. Add an...
[img] This apparently what "jupiter" looked like in 1902. link http://users.tns.net/~path/GS60.html "A name change was accompanied by even...
I don't want to be a party pooper for some of the posters above, but the original poster is looking for couplers that uncouple. So the unimates...
This thread on trainorders may be useful, though I cannot vouch for the accuracy of any of the statements: let's talk CWEX coal trains... It...
[img] Some paint to make it look a little more cohesive. With an air compressor and a round sand dome I think it would actually look kind of...
Here's one I've been playing around with, making a "radial" tank engine out of some old crud. [IMG] A radial tank engine is just a tank engine...
Well don't forget that people these days think that mashing a button on a video game controller improves hand eye coordination - and have little...
The Bachmann 4-4-0s have smaller drivers than their 0-4-0T or 0-4-0 shifter did. But figuring out a way to turn it into a 0-4-4 would be pretty...
I haven't found many good deals on ebay lately. On the other hand I've been getting more certain items now than I would have gotten in the past....
