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Re: WTB: SHS Caboose Trucks
< SHS trucks can be AF flanges, as I do still have scale wheelset replacements.> I had to reply to this because this notion is a real turnoff and it is dead wrong. SHS wheelsets are Hi-rail, not
By Thomas Stoltz · #171032 ·
Re: I missed that email
Rich, I take your point, but let's say someone wants to buy a new brass steam locomotive in HO these days? There are none to be found new. The new breed of plastic-and-diecast steam locomotives look
SHS Cabooses Interior
I just opened up the used caboose I bought a few weeks ago and some things seem to be missing. I've only owned a few others over the years and opened up only one of those, but I don't recall what was
By JGG KahnSr · #171030 ·
Sold-Price reduced-W A Drake gondola is sold
The W A Drake Union Pacific gondola is sold. Wade Schlinger Begin forwarded message:
By Wade Schlinger · #171029 ·
Sold-Price reduced again-B & O Overland EMD F-7 A and B units are sold
The B & O Overland EMD F-7 A and B units are sold. Wade Schlinger Begin forwarded message:
By Wade Schlinger · #171028 ·
Re: I missed that email
Bill, that's pretty much my point.? New and available is in the past for the most part.? What was new and available 10, 20, 30 years ago is no longer relevant to today's person considering S. Rich
By Rich Gajnak · #171027 ·
Re: I missed that email
Rich I would have to give significant thought to what pieces were - but most of my original brass and SHS purchases were new. Opening a box of new brass really had a SMELL to it. It is was an
By Bill Lane · #171026 ·
Price reduced-W A Drake gondola for sale
I have a W A Drake Union Pacific gondola for sale. I have attached pictures of both sides of the model. Price reduced from $160.00 to $140.00 plus $15.00 shipping to the lower 48. If interested,
By Wade Schlinger · #171025 ·
Price reduced again-B & O Overland EMD F-7 A and B units for sale
I have a set of Overland B & O EMD F-7 A and B units for sale. I have attached pictures of both sides of each model. Price reduced from $300.00 to $250.00 and I will pay shipping to the lower 48. In
By Wade Schlinger · #171024 ·
Re: I missed that email
It's not so much that nothing is made, it's that it's not really available.? While I don't have an inventory comparable to Bill's, it's an accumulation gathered over the past 30 or so years.?
By Rich Gajnak · #171023 ·
Re: I missed that email
I have always felt myself to be "S".? ? I went through a phase in college when I tried "HO" but I wasn't comfortable. I have friends who are into the "O" scene but its not for me. Andrew Parker
By Andrew Parker · #171022 ·
Re: Free to a Good Home
Jamie, thinking about Spike, has anybody done anything with Bill Fraley's? character, "Lottie Steamchester"!? Looks like the artwork would make a decent billboard! Bob Werre
By Bob Werre · #171021 ·
Free to a Good Home
Hi All, In the spirit of Bob's Bargain Basement, here's an offer from Jamie's Free Front Porch! Anyone need some industries for their layout? There's a steel fabricator and a power plant. First person
By Jamie Bothwell · #171020 ·
1/64 Scale trucks
To all looking for S scale semi trucks,? 3000Toys.com currently has a 1950 Kenworth Bullnose cabover and a 1955 Peterbilt 281.? ?The Kenworth is $43.99 Regards, Andrew Parker
By Andrew Parker · #171019 ·
Re: NWSL J&L Tank
To Mike's Lytle's point, attached are a couple cars with "reversed" builders photo colors to enhance the detail to prospective buyers. Car builders weren't trying to satisfy a few hundred train
By J. Kindraka · #171018 ·
Re: A Rose by Any Other Name . . .
National Allergy Strategy Group North American Stamping Group The NASG is a simple, neoprene and Velcro first-aid device that looks like the bottom half of a wetsuit, cut into segments. It is used
By John Hutnick · #171017 ·
I missed that email
I have mostly pulled back from engaging the "other scales" about S. They are almost definitely not going to change. I currently have 214 locos 860 freight cars and 160 passenger cars. I missed the
By Bill Lane · #171016 ·
Re: NWSL J&L Tank
Bill, It was standard practice to "white wash" equipment in order to knock the shine off and enhance the display of the details. With steam engines it was more of a matt spray. With freight equipment
By Michael Lytle · #171015 ·
NWSL J&L Tank
Did anyone ever consider the J&L Tank builders photo that truly everyone has used forever was reversed for black and white? Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy, PRSL & Reading in 1957
By Bill Lane · #171014 ·
Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
For "the greatest thing" I would fall back on the Goldilocks principle that O is too big, HO is too small, but S is just right. In defense of this, Ed Packard of C-D gave a clinic at the 1987 NASG
By Bill Roberts · #171013 ·