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Twin Star Cars
Twin Star Cars is a new supplier to the 1/4″ scale market offering high quality resin kits, decals, detail castings for cars and diesels and etched details for the Rock Island.Kits are produced in limited runs and usually sell out quickly. Their focus in post-1960 railroad items. Meridian, ID, United Statestwinstarcars@yahoo.com
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Southern Car & Foundry
SC&F continues to be a high quality supplier of resin kits in HO and O scale. The kits are well engineered and featured one-piece bodies, etched and plastic/resin parts for specific prototypes. 715 Golden Spike Lane Suite ASanford, FL 32771, United States
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Right-O’-Way
A wide range products for track, wheels, trucks, detail parts in 1/4″ scale; O scale and Proto48.
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Code 125 #7 Sprung Frog
Jay Criswell, Owner of Right-O’-Way is continuing to expand his line of track parts. His latest project, a #7 spring frog done in code 125 for P48. It’s not really sprung , however, the spring detail give it the look of a sprung frog. As usual, from here we will have molds made and lost…
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Grab Irons Made Simple
Recently, Stan Schwedler demonstrated a technique for bending grab irons using a few basic tools. The trick is to use a vernier caliper to act as a gage permitting repeatable fabrication of wire grab irons. Step 1 Bend right angle near the end of the wire using a small plier. Step 2 Set the caliper…
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An ATSF Bx-27 Class Boxcar from an Intermountain AAR 1937 Boxcar
The Santa Fe had a liking for Duryea cushioned underframes on the freight cars. A number of cars were built with this design. One such class was the Bx-27 which built to the AAR 1937 design. The road purchased 1500 cars from Pullman June 1936 (136500-13999) and another 500 from AC&F on April 1937 (138000…
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Tom Mix’s Exquisite Proto:48 Locomotives
The art of scratch building is alive and well in Colorado Photos and models by Tom Mix with commentary by Norm Buckhart and Gene Deimlin Tom Mix’s scratch building efforts first appeared in The Proto Journal in the fall 1994 issue. The article showed has layout and the start of an impressive Burlington M-4 2-10-4…
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Tank car Conversion
We would like to share with you a model that was derived from a recent Proto48 article in the Railroad Model Craftsman on upgrading the Intermountain tank car. Robert Lerners used the RMC article as a starting point to build unique chemical tank car. Robert converted the riveted tank car kit into an all-welded tank…
