One area that S Scale seems to lack in is availability of freight cars. It’s getting better (slowly) over time, but currently the choices for box cars, tank cars, hoppers, gondolas, flats, etc are pretty limited. With reefers, though, the selection is awesome. Well, maybe I just think that because I’m a beer drinker, and [...]
Last year River Raisin Models did a run of Southern Pacific 2-8-2 “Mikes” and 2-10-2 “Decks.” I have 2 of the Mikes and they are gorgeous. They still have a couple Decks and a Mike available, currently at a reduced price through the end of the year. If you think you might like one, this [...]
In my brief exposure to model railroading in S Scale, I found it to meet my needs very well, especially regarding availability of Southern Pacific locomotives. As I got more into the hobby though, I also started to realize that it also met another need very well – toy trains for my 4 year old [...]
Even though I had decided to model the Southern Pacific in S Scale narrow gauge, I still needed at least one standard gauge locomotive. One of the towns on the Slim Princess line was Oweno, where the Slim Princess interchanged with Southern Pacific’s standard gauge Jawbone Branch. I wans’t looking for an exact Southern Pacific [...]