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Howdy Y'all I’m rapidly approaching the end of my 46th year in the hobby business. Year 47 starts in July and I greatly appreciate all of you who have been with me on this interesting journey. After a lot of pondering, I have decided to hang around for another year . . . maybe two. I’ve got too many promised projects that need to be finished to stop now. That’s the good news. More good news is that y’all are keeping me very busy cutting, packing, and shipping product. Extremely appreciated! With over 500 kits in production, I'm still getting most orders out the door within a day or two. And even more good news is as I write this, the glue is drying on the sample builds of two C&O Quinnimont structures in O scale, a logging kit for S scale, and a couple more businesses for Cabin Creek in HO. More parts to proof as I finish the sample builds and instructions to write, but they will be released soon. And CAD work for an On2 Box Car is coming along nicely. Now on to the bad news . . . over the next few months I will be reevaluating the pricing on most of the kits. Many have not had a price increase in well over a decade, some multiple decades, and you know what has happened to costs . . . especially over the last four years. Hate to do it, but things cannot continue as is. And it is past time to evaluate the shipping structure. When I set the $5.00 flat rate back in 2001, it covered a large percentage of the USPS Priority Mail fees for the average shipment. Not even close today. So rather than spring this on you as a ‘done deal,’ you have been alerted and now have the opportunity to pick up more kits at the current price and shipping levels. My goal is to have the new price structure in place by the end of Summer if not before. On a slightly different subject, I just published my third Fair Winds novel. Getting three military crime fiction books written in just over four years ain’t bad for an old guy. Fair Winds of Doubt takes place in West Virginia and features Commander Colt getting involved with a local murder spree in his hometown. Both the Virginian and Norfolk And Western rail lines are mentioned. Take a look when you get a chance . . . https://www.wadepublishing.com/fairwindsofdoubt.htm And to squash a few nasty rumors, I work at B.T.S. 6.5 days a week and do the book writing late in the evenings; my writing, an escape mechanism from the stress of life, does not impact B.T.S. BTW – if all my B.T.S. customers purchased this new book next week, it could make the NY Times Best Seller List. ? Again, thanks for your support and keep having fun with our hobby. Bill -- == Author of Military Crime Fiction == Amazon Page - http://amazon.com/author/brwade Fair Winds of Death http://www.wadepublishing.com/fairwindsofdeath.htm Fair Winds of Deceit http://www.wadepublishing.com/fairwindsofdeceit.htm Fair Winds of Doubt https://www.wadepublishing.com/fairwindsofdoubt.htm == Scale Model Railroad Products == == Manufacturer - Retailer - Importer == Bill Wade B.T.S. 1782 Trinity Rd Belington, WV 26250-7621 Phone: 304-823-3729 http://www.btsrr.com Fair Winds Always!

Here's more info about O Scale West! The dates are May 23 – 25. O Scale West include S scale and all gauges narrow gauge. Make your plans to come! There will be the usual swap meet, clinics, contests, and O Scale West's own company store featuring silent auctions and white elephant sales. Local railroad attractions that are worthy of your attention and will be operating and/or open for visiting during O Scale West are: Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad, live steam/ diesel (18”gauge) Roaring Camp and Big Trees, live steam, (3’ gauge) Santa Cruz Big Trees and Pacific, diesel, (standard gauge) Railroad Museum at Ardenwood, diesel, steam (3’ gauge) Tilden Park/ Redwood Valley Railway, live steam (15” gauge) History San Jose Museum & Trolley Barn, electric, (standard gauge) San Francisco Muni Cable Car Museum, cable, (42” gauge) San Francisco Railway Museum, electric, (standard gauge) Western Railway Museum, electric, interurban (standard gauge) and of course the California State Railroad Museum, (3’ and standard gauge)- the Capitol Corridor train to/from Sacramento stops about a mile from the meet hotel (GAC Great America/ Santa Clara stop). As an extra bonus this year there will be a guided tour on Friday afternoon of the Niles Canyon Railway (standard gauge), Brightside shops and yard which rosters 24 locomotives (steam and diesel), and over 75 passenger and freight cars. To sign up for this tour send an email to info@... including your O Scale West registration number, and to help us find it if you don't have it, your last name and zip code. The meet this year will be held in the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 5101 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054-1118. Use the O Scale West web site O Scale West to register on line for the meet and for hotel rooms. Optionally you can contact the meet hotel, the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 5101 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054-1118. The phone number for national registration is 1-800-421-1442 or call the hotel direct at 1-408-200-1234 and ask for the O Scale West group rate of $169 plus tax per night. After May 4 the group rate may not be available! You can also use the Hyatt On-Line Reservations. So plenty to do, make your plans to attend and register for O Scale West now! Questions? Email info@...

On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 08:10 AM, George Courtney wrote: Scale Trains said <snip> they will be forced to close their doors. The good news, relatively speaking, is that Smiling Ed L. is not affected by any tariffs -- except perhaps to/from California. All his RR stuff is already in the USA. More photos coming soon. Hang in there.......Ed L. -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org

Dan……..If you are out there, please call me at 1-650-962-1577. Thanks……..Ed Loizeaux -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org

I just stumbled upon this web site. He has some S-scale items for sale. https://beckleyfamilytrains.com/?s=s+scale (standard disclaimer) - Peter. -- Peter Vanvliet (info@...) owner, Fourth Ray Software Houston, Texas https://fourthray.com/ https://pmrr.org/ (personal web site)

The boiler front for the Pennsy K5 was 90" diameter, same as on the PRR I1 decapod. Substantially larger than those on the K4's and I'm not sure what diameter those were in actuality. Bud Rindfleisch

> From: Jeffrey Madden > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:39:28 PDT > > . . . the Rollie Heralds What articles were in the Rollie Heralds? I skimmed a couple of issues. I recall a construction article by John Porter, I think. -- Bill Roberts, Receiver San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. Fast Friendly Service [select one]

You guys really haven't been putting anything up to read lately so I have been watching YouTube videos for lunch. I got my steam fix this morning running a Mountain passenger train and a Heavy Mikado freight. But there is nothing like watching a good steam video such as this one. I do have this DVD when they first introduced the video. I am posting this only because of the talk about the SSL&S Berkshire kits. Both of these featured locomotives can be built with the kit. BTW my warning to all my heavily weathered dirty steam friends out there you may not want to watch these sweet locos as they are the way I like them. Nice and clean. Oh and that goes for all you diesel guys if you watch this video, you might want to put your diesels on the shelf and start main lining steam. https://youtu.be/SXJ9eKwYSpU?si=xLMWMWvp6GVWsTwm -- Mike Swederska Meramec Valley Lines Modeling Mopac equipment in 3/16 https://www.youtube.com/@mikesscale3149 Don't let perfection get in the way of good enough! Keep model railroading fun!

Just landed in Denver and curious if there are any good physical train shops in the area that have S or Sn3 train items? Thanks in advance, Jeff J Michigan

Some have asked for copies of the SSL&S AF/Hudson Conversion Instructions and Parts list. I started a while back to copy the faded mimeographed instructions but got distracted and never finished them. Dug them out a few days ago and finished them up. Trying to keep the original flavor of the instructions (including grammatical errors) I have copied them verbatim. The sketches included are tracings of the originals copied and pasted into the document as close to the original as I could get them. Along with my work I am including the SSL&S Third Edition Parts Installation Booklet that I think was uploaded by Chris Rooney a few years back. Hope this is helpful for anyone going down this road. -- Rob Fuhst Grand Haven, MI