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Doc Tom, Next time you post a website that has cool old stuff on it like your Bridgehunter website, be sure to include a warning of some sort. I had things to get done this morning and now I want to hunt down the bridges on the site that are listed but don't have photos. Mainly this one...

Doc, I can answer all of those questions for you. Yes, it's 16" gauge, or roughly 1/3 scale. Actual 1/3 scale is somewhere between 15" and 16" gauge. Funny enough, 15" gauge is more popular than 16", but their first steamer was the green RGS 4-4-2 and since it was already 16" gauge that's what...

Doc Tom, Wanna bet? http://youtu.be/kK1FrEu7GmY Tyler

I'm with Burning Beard on this one. The lack of everything in his house (possibly apartment) except for his trains suggest most of his money is tied up in trains, since I know this hobby isn't cheap like rock collecting and especially since he has G scale with DCC. I still would like to see what...

Bill, I'd also love to have a Belle of the Eighties as they are very beautiful locomotives. I fell in love with that locomotive even more once I saw John Allen's color photo of his #8. Granted the locomotive I picked up is its cousin, it has the look that the Whiskey River Railway locomotives...

New Locomotive and Some Good Reading Gents, I've done it again, I've found one of the greater deals on eBay. This time I found myself a vintage Mantua "Eight Ball" Mogul 2-6-0 for under $40. Technically this would be my second brass locomotive as it was a kit made of brass and someone had to...

Hello and Welcome Dogless! I didn't see anything in my PSC steam parts catalog. Mind you I don't have a current copy. Sorry I couldn't be more of a help. Tyler

I am in trouble... Well I've done it again, Ive found something that our wives will possibly hate. I was cruising through Google Images for pictures of 0-6-0's for inspiration last night when I have found the modern steam kitbasher's motherload. On Bachmann's website you can buy most parts for...

Gents, While taking a break from the caboose project because of the frustration of figuring out how to remove the roof without significant damage to the roof or sides I have been shopping for another locomotive to use on the road. If Bachmann still sold their 2-8-0's with DCC and sound for as...

Man oh man would I love to have this! Now to see this thing in operation... Tyler

Zathros, your locomotive in question is a mid-production Athearn F45. Almost all of the "blue box" Athearns came from the factory sounding like mobile coffee grinders, but overall generally reliable locomotives. That Bachmann 4-8-4 is a great locomotive to look at but their cheap construction...

Pretty soon I'll move on to my locomotives since I really only have C3 and C10 to finish (C10 is a TM bay window boxcar from their work train series). I packed up a lot of my 90% and up completed projects in boxes today, Hobby Lobby had a Christmas sale on their big tins which I scooped up to...

Bill, I think I've met that ice giant before, he's the ******* who threw my truck in the ditch seven years ago. Maybe it was his cousin... You're welcome on the motivation, but I should be thanking you for that. If you wouldn't have resurrected your old bay window caboose then who knows what...

Great work! Your work looks top notch. Tyler

Disassembly begins on C3 Even though I scoured the whole HOseeker.net for hours the last couple days to figure out who made the C3 with no avail it doesn't exempt it from getting the restoration treatment. I did find two things interesting though, the whole car seems to be assembled with Shoe...

The plot thickens... Well gents, I'm stumped. I looked on HOseeker.net for quite a while to possibly identify who made this caboose. The sides are in fact cast metal, the roof is one piece of wood as well as the floor/underframe, and the steps and tool box doors are brass. I feel I'd be wasting...

Not a bad idea, thanks for the post! Tyler

I've done more investigation upon the caboose mystery and it looks like a standard MDC wood caboose body with a different cupola and truss bars and toolbaxes added. I'm pretty anxious now to really see what I've got. I don't think that MDC had produced this caboose body in metal, then again the...

Bill, I have taken in consideration that real railroads want their jobs to be simple and cars exchanged with minimal moves. Now this is nowhere near as complex (to me) as the traditional Timesaver but incorporates all the details the original does. The tracks will more than likely be extended...

More caboose crazyness! Right before I left for vacation I found a unique caboose on eBay that I haven't seen before. So for a hefty fee of $6 I took it off of his hands. All the seller said was it was "metal and wood construction" and that "it needs to be cleaned up". Any idea of who could...