A visit to the “Flash Model Train Meet” in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, on March 27 netted me this well-built Ambroid passenger car kit for an open-platform coach of late-nineteenth-century vintage. If I recall correctly, the Ambroid kit is based on a Boston & Maine prototype. The built-up car will need a few adjustments: new couplers, a …
Mantua Baldwin Sharknose Diesel
Happy S Scale Day!
Vinegar Tank Car
Among the more unusual freight cars traveling the mid-century rails were vinegar tank cars, with their wooden tanks, operating well into the era of all-steel cars but seeming much older, because of the need to handle the corrosive liquid. Yeast-maker Fleischmann had a large fleet of such cars, originally owned via a subsidiary and carrying …
Fruit Growers Express reefer
New Haven RPO-baggage car
In the years just after World War 2, A. C. Gilbert reintroduced its American Flyer HO scale line, this time with plastic cars. The New Haven RPO*-baggage combine car shown below was available in sets and separately. This car lacks couplers; I may add Mantua passenger couplers to use this with my two John English …
Gulf tank car
Milwaukee Road ribbed-side boxcar
The latest addition to my vintage HO rolling stock is this built-up Model Die Casting Roundhouse diecast Milwaukee Road boxcar. I purchased the kit assembled but without trucks mounted, though some Roundhouse sprung trucks were included in the kit box (the kit was originally sold without trucks). I’ve put the car — at least temporarily …
Ralston Purina reefer
Lehigh & New England gondola