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Zathros, Hello! Good to hear from you again. I don't have a running layout right now so I can't do what you would like to see. I have 2 locomotives I want to get running first and then tackle that problem. frank

Mantua released another E2. This was E2 class #460 I have only seen it in the 1996 catalog. This is a noted loco assigned to a special train from Washington to New York. It was assigned to wait for the delivery of an unprocessed film of a newsreel taken at the Paris landing field of the landing...

I hope I don't get boos for this next one. Mantua in 1990, maybe,(the date not the product) brought out 4-4-2 locomotives again. One was a midwestern road I think, it is seen in the Mantua catalogs in HOseeker. Another was the Pennsy E2 class 4-4-2 #7002. It is the Pennsy speeder that on June 11...

Being 74 95% of my trains are oldies. In the last 4 years, I have been pursuing HObbyline trains more than anything else. The last thing I have ordered on eBay is, cast metal bodies for a little modeled EMC FT A and B diesel locomotives. It is so early a design that it has no box-shaped roof...

Rivarossi made other articulated locomotives. The 2-8-8-2 N&W Y6. and the 4-6-6-4 Challenger.

Now if I can only get back to wiring the layout. frank

Well here I am 6 months later and out side of painting and lettering a B&O Royal Blue set as HObbyline did theirs with only the road name above the windows. I used only Hobbyline day coaches, 4 of them and 1 combine. I acquired one original HObbyline B&O FA-1 so I know now how they are painted...

A clear photo of the model's bottom would be good. frank

Well here I am, 74 years old now, New One 0-4-0t saddle tankers New Haven #60, and B&O #62 are still the only ones I have ever seen on line or everywhere else. To me they are one of a kinds, there are no others. Mine are the only ones that exist. Anywhere I have gone and all the questions, I...

Trying to make up for a long period without adding reefers.

Next up Canadian National CN 207902,

The open reefer door Athearn models continue wtih the Santa Fe Super Chief reefer SFRD 8392

Here is another early Athearn reefer with opening doors. Pacific Fruit Express PFE 45698 frank

Now after a long stay away from this post time to get it going again. Athearn Fruit Growers express and another old reefer where the doods would open and close. Fruit Growers Express FDEX 9253.

Some other Marx Ho of Interest are these 5 Mars HO Diesel switchers. black New haven #1621 a loco I had for awile till the set came and made this one a spare. The Green #10 which goes well with the green Western Pacific bay window caboose.The Blue #10 another diesel seen in some sets. The...

With Marx collectors there is a big fuss about this caboose. frank

Back to old trains. At a train show last sunday in New Hope Pa. I came upon this old Marx HO set. I say it was a set because everything from the little box it was placed in were item that came in the set. The Black New Haven diesel switcher, Santa Fe box car, Sinclair tank car, C&O Gondola, and...

My roundhouse detail ** Lehigh and Susquehanna Railway ** ** Locomotive service area ** Focusing on the details seen in the photo you can count the number of stalls by the exhaust stacks see in the photo. You can count 5 stalls then the turntable entrance stall, then...

Well here is my new addition train table for my locomotive shops. frank

Well bill once you retire and join us old folks where every day is saturday, you'll find you have a lot of time to work on that train layout and do neat things with it. frank