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I have a W. A. Drake Mobilgas tank car for sale. I have attached pictures of both sides of the model. Tank car has been lightly weathered. Wheels and trucks are weathered too. Original W. A. Drake blue box is included. I purchased this car a few years ago from Tom at Sidetracks and paid $325.00. I am asking $260.00 plus $17.00 for shipping to the lower 48. If interested, contact me off group at wkschlinger@... I accept PayPal friends and family and personal check for payment. If you pay by check, I will ship the model once the check clears. Wade Schlinger

I have a few topics that might help this cause. I have just stripped my layout to bare module tops for a complete rebuild. Fear not, this has always been the plan. I will be placing an order for code 100 flex track from Micro Engineering in the near future. I anticipate many turnouts from Empire Track works to follow. I continue to work on several scale modeling projects including rolling stock, structures, and maritime vessels. My collection of expensive scale semi trucks, vehicles of all kinds and construction and farm implements continues at an unhealthy rate. I am hoping with fading confidence that Shane Lambert will follow through on delivering an AM GP 35 Erie Lackawanna locomotive that I sent him a check for in mid December. My good friend Bill has just posted photos of his recently completed RS 11. The trade we made was a bare brass RS 11 for a beautifully painted NYC RS 11. The NYC RS 11 is a perfect companion to the RS 11 that a purchased from Ed Loizeau. I think Bill posted a photo of the two locomotives together that, in my opinion, should be put out into the print world as an example of what our scale looks like. Bill warned me early on that scale was going to be expensive. The RS 11 was that. I have been on a steep learning curve since joining this "sport" during COVIDs shutdown. Sitting in with Bill while he installs decoders in my locomotives is invaluable. So now my goals are to install headlights in my SP SD40-2 and paint and detail my Peobe Snow Midgage passenger train.. I have in my train collection: a 1946 AC Gilbert K Pacific PRR and four New Haven passenger cars. This runs on Gargraves track. A high rail diesel transition Lackawanna freight train. A scale transition diesel freight train. A high rail modern freight train. And a scale modern freight train. These all have, until I ripped it all up, run on AF Fast Track. When I hear stories about our love of scale trains on the decline it saddens me. I'm here to stay. Andrew Parker

In the vein of "Show S Scale out there in the world" I entered this depot in the model contest. It is scratch-built, from drawings I made. Parts are laser cut or 3D printed. Some of the detail parts were downloads from Thingiverse, some I created in Fusion 360. One you might be interested in is the woman in the waiting room, which I created in DAZ Studio and then printed. The station agent is also done the same way, but the photo only shows him from the back. -Michael Eldridge

All -- Recently on this e-list here has been a lot of back-and-forth/justification for a variety of wheel and track types and how to accommodate what on what trackage. In my view, this is the single most off-putting issue facing the future (or lack thereof) of S. Look at HO. Everything you can buy is mutually/physically compatible with each other -- cars, locomotives, track products. You can purchase A's loco. B's car, and C's track components and everything will work toigether. No tutorial required. Now look at S. Despite recent NASG efforts to separate the various incompatibilities in S into -- get this! -- six different brochures in order to avoid confusion, the very fact that this was done accedes to the fact that S is still haunted by American Flyer. Of course, we here are long past that issue, comfortable with what we are doing. But the future of S depends not on us (most of whom are past our expiration dates!) but on future converts and newbies. For them, STANDARDS MATTER! Forget rail height for now. It's wheel flanges and flangeway widths that matter. There is no need for new products to conform to anything but NMRA standards for S. (These are identical to NASG's "scale" standards.) The only additional "no-no" is for major-mag ad to dump the AF-compatible lobster-claw coupler visuals. People new to S should not have to school themselves on S's historical incompatibilities in order to achieve operational success. I am the last surviving founder of the NASG (Chicago, 1960). NASG's stated goal was -- and continues to be -- the promotion of S scale. And I have seen a lot. I started with Lionel O-27 at age 11 months. I gave the Lionel away to a Chinese immigrant family on my 10th birthday because my parents replaced it with an A. C. Gilbert S gauge Hudson freight set. My goal ever since then has been to create realistic models to the best of my personal capabilities, expanding them via experience over time. I built my first kit, a Chester 85-foot baggage car kit, when I was 11. It didn't like my 20-inch radius curves, so I shortened it to 11 inches and -- it worked! Throughout my student years I gradually converted my tinplate stuff as well as my Northeastern, Nimco, and Kinsman kit-built equipment to NMRA-compatible scale standards, building the occasional pattern for Claud Wade's brass castings project, and entering NMRA model contests. In that era S began blossoming among the model railroading community. Our pinnacle was achieved with the arrival of the first imported S scale brass locomotives in 1985. Since then it has been downhill. Before then, the personal goal of nearly all NASG members was to move from toy trains progressively toward more realism, generally via kits with AF-compatible wheelsets and flextrack components, into hirail and scale. That is the path that I took. But now we are faced with no brass importers and inconsistent track products (unless custom-built). (Yeah, I know that Bill and Dan are working on this latter issue, and I wish them well. But plug-and-play turnouts are still a gleam in the eye.). Maybe the RMC inside-cover ads in conjunction with the NASG.org website will turn things around. But for now, those whose interest is piqued by these resources must shop the secondary S market (e.g., eBay and this e-list) to acquire even the most basic S inventory. I hadn't intended to ramble this much. My basic message for all of us whenever we face the outside model railroad fraternity is this: Get rid of the AF/hirail albatross around our necks!! Just because we here know how to deal with it doesn't mean we should have to foist it on potential newbies. -- Dick Karnes, MMR

That's the theme of the NASG ads that have run on the inside cover of every RMC since mid-2022 and which are scheduled to run through December 2027, unless something changes. I'm an advocate that the best way to grow S is to share with modelers in other scales what's being done in S today through all the avenues available, including in the multiscale magazines like RMC, MR and NMRA Magazine. While advocating for new products is fine, as is sharing our modeling among ourselves, nice S models and layouts can be built today with what's available both new and on the secondary markets and we need to share that modeling with those outside of S. I reiterate that I'm ready, willing and able to help anyone get a photo of their S model in Model Railroader's Trackside Photos feature. Thanks to the few guys who have already provided photos. The first one, by Gaylord Gill, appeared in last month's MR. We expect several more will be published in 2025. This is not an NASG sanctioned program...it's just something I've offered to do. I've just completed detailing an American Models Baldwin to represent B&O 9271 (photos attached). I scratchbuilt the unusual MU panels from styrene and made new railings from brass wire. I used commercially available wipers, shades, horn, MU hoses, drop steps and headlights. I'm working on an article on this build for Model Railroader with the purpose of showing what can be done in S with what you can buy today. The caboose and hoppers in the images are also available today. Is there as much available in S as in HO or N? No, of course not. Can you build nice models in S with what is available today with common modeling techniques and materials? Absolutely! Let's show folks outside of S what can be done...and IS being done...and not just talk among ourselves about what we wish we had. Brooks Stover

For all of you who might be sick of these circular, old chestnut arguments about rail size, wheel shape, who's making turnouts/who's not, who's not growing the scale, all we need is a Grade-A tie-jector car, and so on ? ... I thought I would cross post this question from another 'io' list. The S List has a number of smart, 1:64 farm equipment modelers that have to be bored senseless - if they haven't already unsubscribed. The photo below is an enlargement from the BRHS (Burlington Route) archives. Can anyone identify the loads on those six flat cars? The enlargement is fuzzy but the actual photo (link below) is more distant. The photo is from 1948, taken along the Mississippi River at Desoto, Wisc. Since that area of the country had more than a few farm implement manufacturers, some type of farm equipment seems to be the reigning theory. At any rate, I just wondered if a farm equipment expert might cast a sharp eye on an admittedly, very fuzzy photo... The full photo: https://burlingtonroutehistoricalsociety.smugmug.com/Company-4x5-Negatives/Train-Action-Shots/i-d4KQrvz shows the train is northbound as the CB&Q tracks are on the east side of the river. Jim Kindraka Grand Rapids, MI

Stephen Is that a Southern GP30 you have? Let’s see some close up photos of your models! Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy, PRSL & Reading in 1957 in S Scale since 1987 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Models.htm Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! See my layout progress at: http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL

The W. A. Drake tank car is sold. Wade Schlinger Begin forwarded message: From: "Wade Schlinger via groups.io" <wkschlinger@...> Date: March 30, 2025 at 7:45:51 AM CDT To: [email protected] Subject: [S-Scale] W. A. Drake Mobilgas tank car for sale Reply-To: [email protected] ? I have a W. A. Drake Mobilgas tank car for sale. I have attached pictures of both sides of the model. Tank car has been lightly weathered. Wheels and trucks are weathered too. Original W. A. Drake blue box is included. I purchased this car a few years ago from Tom at Sidetracks and paid $325.00. I am asking $260.00 plus $17.00 for shipping to the lower 48. If interested, contact me off group at wkschlinger@... I accept PayPal friends and family and personal check for payment. If you pay by check, I will ship the model once the check clears. Wade Schlinger

I realize that many of us on the list are already retired or semi-retired. Most likely, we're living in the last place we expect to live - no moves on the horizon. But... if you were to move again, or you haven't quite retired and are looking at places to move, where would you go that is "attractive" to model railroaders and train lovers? Where would you go that is rich in railroad lore, railroad history, railroad clubs/museums/tourist roads, and hobby shops? This is the type of discussion I have with my wife, from time to time, wrt her love of quilting. We've already identified some potential areas, but nothing there speaks to the railroad question. Public replies are appreciated, because I'd like others to see what you have to contribute. Thanks! Phil Scandura Flagstaff, AZ

The more surprising in that 00 used 4mm instead of the bizarre 3.5mm. North American TT largely went into decline because HP, its largest manufacturer and biggest booster, stopped making it; I don't think I ever heard why that happened, whether something went wrong for Hal Joyce or something else. It didn't help that one of the best advertisements for that scale was Glyn Lewis's column in RMC which was discontinued (along with Dick Andrews' narrow gage column) when Charles Penn, the publisher, started slashing costs by stiffing writers and going to toilet paper pages. I've always wondered whether that had anything to do with bankrolling his ghost town in Arizona. It was a great publication before that, and one of the reasons I got into TT at the time was because of the column; it took ten or twelve years after Hal Carstens took it over before RMC started recovering its reputation. JGGK From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Andrew Parker via groups.io <andriaart1@...> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 8:48 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [S-Scale] My modest S collection Bill without question. Especially since his web site said "a South Jersey joint". The other is Stan Strockroki. Their YouTube videos inspired me tremendously. Andrew Parker On Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 01:35:27 PM PDT, Bill Lane via groups.io <bill@...> wrote: I know that there are at least 10 people in S Scale now because they found my website before the NASG website. I have been told directly by these people. Andrew is 1 of them. Peter V does an amazing job capturing ALL of S Scale. But in no way can he be responsible for showing what or how to work on the trains etc in project form. I am at least 100 project pages of various things. Peter has hyperlinked many photos to my project pages. 221 locos – at least 195 are DCC ready and SHOULD run 872 freight cars 147 passenger cars. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy, PRSL & Reading in 1957 in S Scale since 1987 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Models.htm Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! See my layout progress at: http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL