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Hello Russ, Are you thinking of Cass scenic railroad in West Virginia ? Thats the only logging railroad I know of still operating in the US. BTW the mountian is "Bald knob", I think thats where the train ends.Hope that helps..... Patrick Beaufort,SC Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}

Hello Kyle, The crane is in very rough shape as of now. I'd like to complete it before posting pictures as the crane will be in one piece and not a ton of styrene laying around. Today { I stayed home from work hehehe} I finnished a lot of the crane in my spare time including the base...

Folks I have a sure fire way to make tons of the structure covering . If you have a freind/buddy/ someone whos getting rid of a big screen TV. Before they cart this TV off to the dump,snag it. The protective screen that goes over the projection screen is a piece of 3' X4' scratch builders...

Hello Tobias, We spoke in an e-mail you sent about kibri kits in germany. Anyhow a great place to visit while in Savannah,GA is the " roundhouse railroad museum". Use to be southern railway shops for southern serving Savannah area yards. Tons of steam locomotives freight...

Hello all, Operating a steel mill has tons of speicilized vehicles running around and this latest scratch build is one of them {crane is fixed in place,so this bugger won't be running around }. Union Railroad in PA has one of these cranes at their barge unloading center. Based on the...

Hello all, I'm terribly sorry , I thought I uploaded these photos long ago. I use this forum and others to post pictures and ask questions. Once again sorry for the long wait. The first group of photos is of the half finnished bucket loaded on the Walthers heavy duty flat. The...

Hello all, This tug has been a complete pain in the buttocks from the get go. It is done....no more headaches from this scratch build. It turned out ok for being my first ever boat and I saved a bunch of money by not having to buy the CMR's river tug that I've been drooling over. I'll...

Now why didn't I think of that........duh on me LOL. If I named it after my wife,she would just shrug her shoulders and say {thats nice}.So I think I'll name her "Bettie Paige" after the 50's pin up chick. Patrick

Hello all, After more than 14 hours total build time ,this model is done. The tiers are a little oversized and the tug is much to be desired. But from three feet away ,who could tell anyway. Heck if I've done anything....I've saved $85.00 without having to buy CMR tug.Still gonna buy...

Hi yaz Shaygetz, Pictures are coming,as soon as I paint the tug and add all the details. It looks rough as @$#&, right now. Tonight I fininshed the bridge and all thats really left is after paint,adding the port-hole window glass,details,chain,handrails,company logo ect. The three tiers...

Hello again, Still building the river tug. Tonight I built the second tier and added the exhast pipes. The second tier is a little more detailed, with port holes and two door ways.All thats left is the crows nest or bridge {which ever you prefer}. Then I have some old junk locomotive...

Hello all, Custom Model Railroads or CMR has a very nice resin/brass river tugboat kit offered in HO. Problem being, I don't have $85.00 bucks to shell out for it. So what does one do ? SCRATCH build is the answer,I'm very pleased so far will the build thus far. Tonight... I've...

Walthers use to produce a HO scale model of their first building. I think it was a three story brick structure,modeled after walthers very first store. Thats about as close as I can come to helping you out. Patrick Beaufort,SC Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}

Nick, I found the link to it....Ha Ha!!!!!! http://www.gaugemaster.co.uk/Heljan.html Slagpot

Nick, Heres a link to what you might be looking for. http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/vol/vol5620.htm Walthers and Heljan are building a container crane much larger than this one...like for unloading container ships. Someone send me a picture of the model that their {walthers & Heljan}...

Hello Nick, Hold your horses and wait just a little longer. Walthers and Heljan are teaming up for a fully operational container crane.Due out with in the next year or so. I read on-line somewhere....can't remember where though. I surpised you guys haven't heard about it ???? I'll...

Hello all, I'm just about completed with my latest scratch build. As Docwayne told me about an article RMC had a few months ago regarding these loads. Doc I bought that issue just because it had a cool topic about draglines and shovels. Thats where I got the idea for this load. The...

Hi yaz Desertdrover, It's not a complete dragline.....just the bucket. I don't have the B-2 in my collection,but I've seen models of the B-2 shovel. I'll say this.....for every dollar spend on this Jordan shovel, its worth every dollar. It's a very nicely done model and you can super...

HO scale large dragline bucket load....scratch build....Photos uploaded Hello all, I started one of my latest scratch builds yesterday. A completely scratch build of a Marion shovel company dragline bucket load for my Walthers heavy duty flat car. The bucket itself is built out of styrene and...

Josh......sweet looking concrete pumper truck. I like that one a lot. This is what I've been working on the past few days. A mobile tracked crusher unit for the slag dump, no one produces these in HO ,so what could one do. Scratch build time again,all I have left to do is add details and paint...