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THE HOT-SHOT HObbyline TRAIN SET #426 This blog of mine started with a copy of a HObbyline trainset which I still would like to get a photo of the real thing. What i'll do now is ad a photo of my 11 HObbyline train set. I just got it At the Hamburg PA. Train show a week ago. show was on...

You got somethin going on there. I like the Gas station module. Keep up the good work!

Post 20- Here are three all wood express reefers. These three are the only ones I have ever seen Made of Wood with Round Roofs. If someone knows how made the kits and the conversion roofs please inform me so as To properly label these three. frank

Some more vintage HO trains from toptrain. I made this phopto when going through one of my boxes. Here are some Old Marx HO tank-cars, The red one and white ones in the upper left corner are Rocket fuel cars. All the rest you can read their names. frank "It's a heck Of a Daya'

This one is box 1 layer 1, the top layer in the box. B1 L1 1st down Globe reefer Swift Refrigerator Line, red, SRLX 12000. A sheet metal car with a wood floor and cast metal details. 2nd down is an ERIE reefer of the Union refrigerator Line URTX 39427. All plastic. 3rd is a Varney reefer Santa...

54 car photos first letter each description line is thee Manufacture. A Athearn, L Laconia, M Mantua, W Old wood kit maker unknown. V A-1 Box, Mopack Eagle, MP 120174. A-2 Box, Dixieland N.C. & St. L.22145 V A-2 N.C.&S.L. Dixieland 22145. V A-3 Ref, SWIFT Reefer Line, SRLX 12000. V A-4 Ref...

Here is group photo of 54 Vintage HO reefers and boxcars. Maybe you would like to see them, fra

A Vintage 1960's HO/OO retailer of model trains importing trains made in Japan and England was the American Train and track Company. Yes, the abbreviated name would be AT&T just like the phone company. Their products made in Japan were HO scale, whereas the British trains ran on HO gauge track...

How about a series of posts on HO Camelback Locomotives. I wonder where this type of cab on top of boiler design originated. I got to do some research. frank

Revell Fan; Thank you for the nice words but the quality of this picture is in the detail of the large station with train, and not of my layout. I wish it was! two more good posts are on the next page. frank

This is my Beautifull Hornby Princess Royal 4-6-2 powered, with the European Pullman passenger train Golden Arrow at the Bergen Point Station. frank

Here is my Cary/ Penn Line PRR N1 2-10-2 pulling a long freight past the big station at bergen Point. This locomotive when I got it from a freind was missing a cab had no front pilot, leading or trailing truch. The drive is a Penn Line decapod one and the boiler was from a 2-10-2 Cary conversion...

My biggest station is this Kirbi oldie seen here powered by my Varney Streamlined, customized PRR K4 with Tyco/Mantua streamline aluminim passenger cars. framk

Here is a retro HO scale tank car with a rarely never seen road name Pegasus Oil Company, with a recording marking od H&P 753. It setps back to the 1950's with its tin plate cars and sets. The car is 99% steel metal. Only the wheels are different. It has a form of Kupsee couplers and will...

Hey Mike! I've had that set for 20 years. I have never dated that set and know nothing about when it was made and released. I have a Kusan set that is very much like it. Also most all collectors know of another similar set the Mantua metal sets set. feoda frank. here is the Kusan set

Does anyone remember the American Model Toy company. They sold this set of metal passenger cars. When running this set in a totaly dark room the interior car lights lit up the layout. frank "It's a heck of a day"

Here is a 4 car set of PRR Harriman pssenger cars. There are 3 coaches, and a Observation lounge car with a open rear platform. frank

A W&A and B&O trains at Upper Snake Gulch station.

Here is My Rivarossi Big Boy making the turn into the tunnel at Mine Hill. frank