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Reciprocating Jig saw blades I think are more what you are looking for. They are smaller and closer to scale. They carry them at most good hardware stores they are cheaper partly because they do break often because of thier size. I would think that a wood worker knows when it is time to through...

Grasse River steamer lost in the Maine woods At the risk of being the only person posting on this thread. Heres a real doozy. I know awile back I claimed to have found an ex Grasse River/Emporium steam engine well I spoke too soon then but it seems that there actually is one. This all stems...

Well of all of the three rail shays out there apparently this one will take the tightest curves (and the best price). I read one reveiw say it could make a standard O 31 inch radius. K-line seems to have made the right choice by making a somewhat standard sized "catalog" Shay instead of the...

I do O too. It is a little hard on the wallet at times and the space thing is always a temptation. It is so strange to see pre assembled models from the relatively obscure line that I am researching/ building up models for that I am open to look in other scales too just to see what is out there...

Very nice Gil. I would love to be able to afford one of those. Oh well. At the moment I am debating making the switch over to 0n30 from tinplate O. The Bachmann models especially the Climax look great for the price. Also the upcoming railtruck would be a fun kitbash project to make a similar...

IHC hobbies sells Barnhart loaders in several schemes in HO to run on top of the rails on thier or Riverossi's log cars. I realize that they are not nessearily the authority on the subject but they offer several colors according to the line. My favorite is the one lettered for Emporium Forestry...

I got to spend a week up in Cranberry this year I tried to get in touch with you Muddy Creek but somehow missed you. Maybe next year. I spent quite a bit of time researching the ROW and I met with Virginia (Sykes) Drebey and her husband Ed. She is the granddaughter of William and daughter of...

To make a fireless engine I would think about starting with that new lionel 0-6-0 and doing some surgery on the boiler. The detail is great for the price I am very happy with mine. And from the few compressed air or fireless steam engines I've seen they often have and enlarged boiler with a...

The Grasse River RR of the Emporium Lumber Co. in upstate NY had an engine close to identicle (if you changed the domes) to the Bachmann Spectrum HO 0-6-0T engine in the 20's. They added a trailing truck to make an 0-6-2T. I am hoping to model this one in O (toy I know. What can I say sorry I...

Well things have come up and I cannot tell how much time I will have up at Cranberry Lake this year. My wife and I both being back in school and the baby make things hard. San Diego to northern NY is quite a commute. Muddycreek I finally figured out what happened. A bit of info got lost...

There is a small mention and photo of the LO&S #10 as restored by the folks in Strasburg in this months issue of Railroad Model Craftsman (March 2005). The article is titled as stated on thier site is * 60 RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashing a gas-electric by Kurt Mirisch Turning a...

The ZW is the most powerful of the old lionel transformers. Many people swore by them because they were more powerful than anything new that could be built according to Gov't regulations. In the last few years the manufactures in this scale have made replicas by side stepping the limits with...

Many Mixed Questions for a Mixed Train Here are alot of questions I am working on these days. I have enough close models to make a pretty good representation of a Mixed train from Childwold station to Cranberry Lake in the mid 1920's in "O" scale. So most of my questions are in this area...

The company is gone now but I am sure you can still find them on a discount. But I found some really nice O scale skeleton log 3 car sets made by Industrial Rail. They are made for lionel type 3 rail track but they could be converted easily. The trucks are not really right but the detail on the...

Will do but I live far away from the storage locker. I have gone back to school on the other side of the country. The earliest I can get to it is the summer. Sorry. I will post a picture in this forum.

I could not find those plans in that magazine issue.

Thanks, I will keep my eyes peeled for that one. Here in SandyEgo there is a hobby shop that almost exclusively carries magazines. Its an old one est. 1940's. There was even a Sundam model of it "The Original Whistle Stop". In the model there is a donut shop next door, now that is a...

Today the owner of the Railtown Museum wrote me and told me the fate of the White Rail bus. It was burned in place while the Museum was being run by another man in the late 60's . He says there are pictures of it burning owned by Robert Palmer, one of the authors of "Rails in the North...

Thanks for the fast replies. Muddy Creek(Wayne), I guess that shows what happens when you assume..... I thought that with all the fuel around it would be tempting to use it. But I forgot what happens when you do. I should know better. I was here in San Diego in 2003 for the big November...

The model looks nice in this prototype shot. I assume it is out by now as this is an older post. Does anyone out there have this? I've not seen it yet. Does it only come as an oil burner? Is it a good runner? What are the stats?Sorry for so many questions. Just curious. N scale may be beating on...