Model Train Journal

Sorry worry link ...try this one for the Super scale

https://youtu.be/XYmTskxRAm8

Bob thank you for pointing out the extra space between #1&#2 axles .. never saw that till you pointed it out Donely was able to get Scale -Craft in many hobby shops & department stores ... Donely lived near the Fields ...Marshall Fields that is and was able to get a "hobby" section...

Hello all you might enjoy seeing a working Dynamometer car... built in 1937 by Bondurant of Wisconsin ..friend of Kalmbach
Please see link

https://youtu.be/adr0bK3R6FU


Cheers Carey

I believe it might be Super Scale model with Pittman drive
See link


https://youtu.be/_hTY-PWvii4

Cheers Carey

Hello all you might enjoy seeing the SP Mountains of 1936 Scale craft introduced September Lobaugh December Donnelly's first engine after buying SC Lobaugh's first engine Both RTR sold for 195-200 Kit price SC a bit cheaper SC Mountains are out there ... Lobaugh ones not so much Both engines stopped...

Hello Bob thank you for posting the photos The big 060 Lobaugh is 17/64" scale ...prewar model ... introduced 1938.....no connection to the Pratt PRR switcher which is cast bronze introduced the same year ..also in17/64". The Pratt kit was the same price as the rtr Lionel model introduced ...

Hello all you may enjoy seeing a few of the Walthers MU cars in action .. first shown in 1937 catalog and carried till the 60's ... unknown if unsold stock ...or if folks were really buying them ...not too many survivors out there. early brass & bronze ...later tin & die-castings ... Walther...

Many of the imported HO steamers from Japan in the early mid 50's had coined drivers ...

see link for a Tetsudo NYC Niagara with the coined drivers warning it is HO for those of you with a weak heart

https://youtu.be/S-crlz5DYc4?si=dUhIimUQgSRN2rJQ


cheers Carey

Hello all You might enjoy seeing Bill Lenoir's De Witt Clinton set run .... Lenoir per his 201 engines book built 2 De Witt Clinton sets ... roughly in 1952 ...beautiful detailing all brass construction , powered by a tiny Lindsay HO motor . see link for video https://youtu.be/dUcg1IwWkMo?si=faD1h9w...

Hello all Per special trains given by Minton Cronkhite back in May 1964 .... the 2351 diesel will pull an extra passenger train west .... during the run session on the Cambria & Black Mountain layout now in Marion Charles basement ... after he added on 25" to his home to accommodate the lay...

Hello all Fun time at the March meet !!~!~ Problem with walking around at a train show with nothing in your hands ..you can reach in your pocket for $$ and now you have something in your hands . 12 !! Piggyback cars ... by Quality Craft Models circa 1970's ..nicely done with ACE roller bearing truck...

very impressive photo

Hello all NYC Dreyfus Hudson pulling 20th Century Passenger cars built by Joseph Fischer Engine body scratch built atop a Mini Scale Hudson Chassis 1937-40 Operating with outside third rail O scale Fischer cars ( late 40's early 50's) built for Reverend John Martin of Lansing, Mi area ...who passed ...

Hello all Manhattan Beach Railway O scale layout by George Allen & Ernest Huebner 1936-40's Alexander American pulling William Crook passenger cars beautifully hand lettered. Originally built for outside third rail..later modified for 2 rail. See link for video come see the Manhattan Beach train...

Hello all the great March Meet will be at the Westin Hotel in Lombard Illinois this weekend public open Saturday _ Sunday additionally there will be open houses , lectures etc .....plus lots of tables filled with trains for sale . I'll have a display of vintage O scale on display and host an open ho...