Model Train Journal

Never having seen an Egoff model (afaik), I cannot offer an opinion as to authenticity. As to the appearance of the model, it may be that the builder (whomever it was( was trying to model a Pennsy K4 but didn't have all the correct parts to do everything accurately Not having a full front view, I ca...

Haven't viewed this form in several weeks & just spotted this thread. The SMR models of the 1860s-era locos use powered tenders, which is probably a more accurate description than "tender drive" (meaning motor in tender driving a shaft forward, connecting to shaft & gears in the lo...

Check old Lobaugh & Walthers catalogs. IIRC, into the 1940s those firms offered a wide variety of freight trucks. Walthers used pot metal & Lobaugh used sand cast bronze sideframes, so their trucks were not sprung. But they were equalized, in that the truck bolster was attached to the sidefr...

Spent some time Sunday 1-21 looking over the various threads & got down to this one. FWIW, Atlas used to offer 2R wheelsets for their 1970s plastic trucks. They had plated brass wheels iirc, which I do not like, and had pointed axles as do the original plastic wheelsets. There is a problem with ...

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all fellow O DScalers. I've been absent from this forum for awhile, but want you all to know that you & this forum are not forgotten--I just haven't had much to say lately. A few months ago I dug out my K-Line B&M 2-6-6T and operated it at Robert Stive...

FWIW, many years ago when working on our old 2R modules for an NMRA Division annual train show, I had some brown latex interior paint left over from a quart can that was used for painting the wood framing & legs of a couple of layout modules. Using a small brush, I hand-painted the sides of the ...

Very useful info from davejfrO above. I think that sharing is what these forums are/should be all about--modelers helping modelers. As to trucks, the photo of the prototype car shows what appear to be AAR 50-ton trucks. Bettendorf Co in Iowa was but one manufacturer; several other firms made the sam...

Neat stuff all right! How did you like the Garratts on the wall shelves? The blue colored "Big Boy" one stood out during that long pan shot, but later closeups showed two others above; all seem to be versions of the Australian standard gauge "double northern" which was the only G...

Thanx very much, Erik-- I was hoping you'd know someone in yr area who had info on this point. It seems logical to me that the inverted chevron stripes on the front sandbox would have been applied at time of scheduled shopping when boilers were repainted black after US entered WW2. No time for speci...

Nice to see you back, Erik. Have you looked at my thread, "Question for Rio Grande Experts?" Might you know someone in your area who could answer the question?

Very interesting discovery of high-quality trackwork from pre-WW2. Carey asked about photos of the NY World's Fair layout. Lionel's MODEL BUILDER magazine had an article or two about that exhibit with several photos during the time frame 1939-41. Best of luck, Carey--I sincerely hope you get that la...

Peter-- Nice model. Is it the NJ/Custom Brass version? Scalecraft Dave-- Many thanx for posting pix of the real 2-4-4-2. I remember it as the "World's Largest Loco Kit" in Niblock Yard just west of Snoqualmie WA after Charlie Morrow has salvaged the loco & brought it to "civilizat...

Scott Mann is soliciting reservations for the Rio Grande l-105 challengers as built by Baldwin in 1937. I've always admired their looks: nos. 3700-3708 with flying pumps & Elesco feedwater tanks above & in front of the smokebox. But I am curious about the following: Shortly after constructio...

Maybe a thicker vertical portion of motor mount? Also possibly a mount for the rear end of the motor? This is going to keep you off the streets & out of trouble for a long time, but I'm sure it will be fun for you. I once read of someone in the old days who set up a 3-unit diesel with a K&D ...

Dave is in Kirkland on the NE corner of Lake Washington, whereas I am in the Seattle City Limits. On Tuesday, August 8, we broke Seattle's "dry spell" record of 51 days from 1951. We are now at 52 and looks to go same to this coming weekend. Sky color is & has been dull silver due to s...