Nobody on the list ever took the time to do a report from St. Louis regarding Q stuff so I'll give it a whack. Bachmann had FT a unit on display. Shell is for the train set line but looks like it mig
I forgot to add that ... drumroll please.... MicroScale will be offering "Q" steam locomotive decals in both HO and O scales. Craig said that they were done with help of Marshall Thayer so we owe a b
Great! Now that we're going to have Alice decals we need to get a model of an Alice that is more available than the Nickle Plate Products model from the '80s. My sightings of this somewhat mythical m
I know where Big Cut is. It's just east of Plum Creek Junction (Savanna) and almost southwest of Mount Carroll. It's the site of, get this, a big cut on the climb out of the Mississippi River valley.
Good question! And what color red was it also. I've always thought it was iron oxide red (almost a primer red). I've heard Frisco #1522 described as having a "Pepsi red" cab roof which certainly is b
I just got my registration materials yesterday. Anybody know if last months Zephyr might still be on sale at the company store in Paducah ... I stupidly let my membership in BRHS slide by and missed
Doug, You should be looking at a model of one of the later homebuilt O5s. rest of the O5s were assembled and built by Burlington in their own shop. These later O5s do have the riveted tenders. In oth
I emailed Dean's Trains in Tennessee the other day about the Oriental O5s after being shocked to read Scott's post about the announcement. Dean, who I believe is a Burlington fan, had no more explana
I bought my engineer's cap at Farm & Fleet and it's made by Oshkosh (yeah, the 'b gosh people!). It's got an adjustable snap like a baseball cap in the back. It's in the traditional blue and white "h
Thanks Larry for your memories of Savanna. Back in '95 or so I went to that grocery store and you're right - you gotta see the pictures inside. There are big murals of railroad pictures from Savanna
That's just it ... I have a morbid fascination with the Milwaukee and Rock Island of the 1970s! That sounds cool to me! Not the paragon of how a railroad should function but neat to me. Granted, I di
The model railroad club that is affiliated with Midwest Trains in Bettenforf, Iowa has a very extensive farm equipment factory modeled on their layout. I believe it was pictured in one of the magazin
I'll add some comments to Rich's about these locos. The Sunset S4: Great model, comes with parts to do as delivered or final versions or oil burner for that matter. Runs fine right out of the box wit
Scott, Hill's Hobby Shop in Park Ridge, IL shows an Oriental Limited O5a (late version I think) for something like $895. They have a website and I'm sure they have an ad for the shop in the back of M
Excursion engines that still burn coal that will be active in 2001: Milwaukee S3 #261 SP&S #700 (I'm almost positive this is a coal burner - copy of an NP A3 I believe) the Soo 4-6-2 #2719(?) and Mik
Actually, I believe #1522 made its very first excursion runs over the WC out of Schiller Park up to Fon dul Lac and back sometime in 1988(?). The steamer traveled over the CNW northbound with a diese
Could someone enlighten me on the crew change points of the Burlington going up to the Twin Cities, over to Omaha and Kansas City, and down to St. Louis. Era that I'm interested in is 1940s and 50s.
Friend and I travelled from Peoria over to Ottumwa on Saturday March 3rd to train show and some railfanning along the way. Caught a westbound coal train and paced him on Cameron Road between Cameron
Whatever, I didn't get out of the car with my yardstick to measure the gauge of the rails or try to find a handy three foot section to see how much it weighed! I have never been to Old Thresher's day