Model Train Journal

Hello all Fun time at the March meet !!~!~ Problem with walking around at a train show with nothing in your hands ..you can reach in your pocket for $$ and now you have something in your hands . 12 !! Piggyback cars ... by Quality Craft Models circa 1970's ..nicely done with ACE roller bearing truck...

very impressive photo

Hello all NYC Dreyfus Hudson pulling 20th Century Passenger cars built by Joseph Fischer Engine body scratch built atop a Mini Scale Hudson Chassis 1937-40 Operating with outside third rail O scale Fischer cars ( late 40's early 50's) built for Reverend John Martin of Lansing, Mi area ...who passed ...

Hello all Manhattan Beach Railway O scale layout by George Allen & Ernest Huebner 1936-40's Alexander American pulling William Crook passenger cars beautifully hand lettered. Originally built for outside third rail..later modified for 2 rail. See link for video come see the Manhattan Beach train...

Hello all the great March Meet will be at the Westin Hotel in Lombard Illinois this weekend public open Saturday _ Sunday additionally there will be open houses , lectures etc .....plus lots of tables filled with trains for sale . I'll have a display of vintage O scale on display and host an open ho...

Hello all nice postings about the veteran diesels . I just posted on the Train of Tomorrow listing the following Great Train of Tomorrow diesel set ...... these were made by Clyde Barnes of Denver Model Locomotive Works ... ads from 1944-46 Clyde was the first offer diesels postwar ...... wide varie...

Great Train of Tomorrow diesel set ...... these were made by Clyde Barnes of Denver Model Locomotive Works ... ads from 1944-46 Clyde was the first offer diesels postwar ...... wide variety of construction techniques ...wood , fiber , aluminum. odd little motors , odd gearing .... this period conven...

Hello all you may enjoy seeing a train from the Manhattan Beach Railway O scale build by George Allen & Ernest Heubner of Richmond Hill NYC ..their work was displayed at annual NYSME shows . Allen was outstanding at hand painting / lettering . Engine Alexander mid 1930's cars copies from the Wm ...

Holy cow those are just beautiful ....... you really know how to mix models with mother nature cheers Carey

Hello all You might enjoy seeing some Crovan trains running . Crovan formed with Minton Cronkhite & his neighbor Vanderhoof Cro Van with Otto Noack head design , builder and mechanic . Crovan would offer very high end / high priced O scale trains building many for Minton's commercial layouts. Pa...

Hello all 2026 celebrates 100 years of O scale model trains and the NYSME (New York Society of Model Engineers ) March 1926 NYSME was formed ... first public open house Feb 1928 with a loop of O scale ... each following year bigger and better by 1938 over 20,000 attended their open house over the 2 ...

Hello all thank you for your kind words ...sorry the delay ..log in issues .. 2 rail began by Egolf in 1930 as an option ...but most folks were club member and clubs normally were outside 3rd rail .... so it was a social thing go with outside 3rd 1933 Chicago world's fair Egolf installs IC layout 2 ...

Hello all With luck I'm back Minton Cronkhite sold Liberty Electric in 1928 .... taking head craftsman & machinist Otto with him ...being burdened with excess money he opened Crovan with his neighbor Vanderhoof to build and sell O scale model trains ...hoping to cater to the rich and wealthy in ...

Hello all Minton Cronkhite began modeling in O scale in the mid 1920's at the dawn of the scale movement. 1928 Minton set up Crovan for building O scale trains in Greenwich , CT. Otto Noack was the main craftsman . Minton moves to California in 1930 but still has Otto build trains for him. Minton wa...

Hello all Big Boy the largest of the articulated steam engines introduced in 1945 by American Locomotive Co. Here is scratch built brass O scale model ( builder unknown) construction dates late 1940's - mid 50's.. Beautifully built full suspension, heavy bronze chassis ... akin to Scale Model Railwa...