An Airline Transport Pilot with a degree in art, Fred's first model was the AMT/MPC 1/25 Scale Tri-Axel Gravel Trailer and semi-tractor truck. Then Monogram's Lunar Lander right after the lunar landing. Third, Revell's 1/32 Bf-109G...he cried havoc and released the dogs of modeling! Fred's interests - if built before 1900 or after 1955, then he probably doesn't notice it.
Rusty Rail heralds autumn with new HO and O scale items, air compressors, vehicles, and cargo.
Come see what HERPA announced in their CARS & TRUCKS NEWS for July and August. This includes a Junkers F13 aircraft.
HERPA heats up autumn with new models in their CARS & TRUCKS NEWS, for September and October.
ATLAS announces teir "summer collection" including a new run of N Scale S-2 Locomotives.
ATLAS announces their foray into Z scale, which is 1:220. This 53' Evans Double Plug Door Box Car is their first rolling stock model.
To maintain their first generation Alcos and 100+ year-old steam locomotives, the Nevada Northern Railway in Ely, Nevada operates this engine house. In 2007 I toured this fantastical realm of railroad reverence.
A place you can go to run a 100+ year-old steam locomotive - yeah, right! But it is not a myth and you do not have to capture a unicorn to find the Nevada Northern Railway in Ely, Nevada. In 2007 I partook of this fantastical realm of railroad reverence...
The Atlas Product Spotlight
Well here we are already March. Here a few HO scale items and also a new O scale item.
ATLAS has been announcing new models in O, HO and N, and here we spotlight them.
Rachel, a Vulcan Iron Works 1920 2-4-4T steam loco.
Our Northern Plains correspondent HARV again provides us with many scenes useful to model railroaders, and other model genres. Here he spotted this interesting round-end concrete grain elevator in Wyoming.
Our Northern Plains correspondent HARV provides us with many scenes useful to model railroaders, and other model genres. Here he spotted this classic Railroad Grain Elevator in Wyoming.
Come look and appreciate the wonderful and weird colors and formations of scenery seen along railroads.
This feature presents some colors of real rail car wheel weathering.
