Pre-Read for this Blog: “The Quiet Web” In our previous blog posting, “The Quiet Web” we introduced what we called the “Quiet Web”. In short, those web site resources that are not easily discoverable by our O Scale Modeling community. Shout Out to Jim Kellow, MMR of “New Tracks Modeling” Read more…
The Quiet Web is that part on the Internet that is public but undiscoverable. We hear many terms including those that geeks talk about like the Dark Web, the Deep Web or even the Surface Web but what we do not associate are those sites we think we know are Read more…
Almost always, the emphasis about the railroads and model railroading in general is about the roadbed, track, rails, turnouts, passing sidings, etc. likely because that is the largest capital expense for a company and maintance costs as well as the most visible. Almost not attention is given to those poles Read more…
Starting your first model can feel exciting—and maybe a little intimidating. That’s okay. Whether you’ve built dozens of kits or this is your very first one, we’ve laid out the basics in a way that’s easy to follow. You don’t need fancy tools or expert help to get started. Just Read more…
–What You Don’t Know About Why You Build Models– Why do we love model railroading so much? Most of us can’t put our finger on exactly why. Sure, we might say we enjoy the craftsmanship or the nostalgia, but there’s something deeper going on—something we feel rather than think Read more…
Somehow I manage to find the most unique railroad equipment to model, and the Harris Palatial Car Company combine/parlor/sleeper Jeannette does not get any better than that—oh, what a find! And usually, as luck would have it, information about the passenger carriage is not easily or readily found. In Read more…
Many hesitate to get into the hobby of model building, particularly model railroading. Building things has always given people great satisfaction in life, perhaps because that is what we were meant to do. In my particular case, at the early age of grade school I had trains given to me Read more…
🎉 Train Meet Magic for Everyone, Everywhere There’s a special kind of electricity that fills the air at a train meet. The tables stacked with treasures, the hum of conversation, the thrill of discovering a long‑sought part — it’s a world that model railroaders know by heart. For decades, these Read more…
Every Friday night, my grandfather would take me to the Garfield Clarendon Model Railroad Club. I’d bring a box of freight cars, hoping the engineers would let me run them on their massive layout. The pike was a maze of tracks, signals, and miniature towns—complex and beautiful. I wasn’t the Read more…
About 2 years ago, in 2023, we worked up a beginners kit for the Chicago Great Western Doodlebug otherwise known as a Gas Electric because it had a gasoline engine and a generator to power traction motors. The title of this kit is: All Nation Line M-300 Gas Electric “Doodlebug” Read more…