Archive for July, 2010

Sn42 Critter on EBay

Sn42 Critter For Sale (Disclosure: This is my own listing). I have a Model Power DDT Plymouth Diesel switch engine listed on EBay. Although it is an HO locomotive, it scales out rather large in HO and actually looks a lot better as an S Scale narrow gauge locomotive. In fact, I put it next [...]

42″ Narrow Gauge Lines

I’m very interested in Sn42 model railroading, mainly as a cheaper alternative (than ‘true’ Sn3) to modeling 3 foot gauge lines in S Scale. It was recently pointed out to me that there were actually quite a few 1:1 rail lines that used 42″ gauge track. Well, of course I “knew” that but it just [...]

Great Deals on Brass Locomotives

Lately there have been some really good deals on S Scale brass locomotives coming up on EBay. A couple of weeks ago I picked up a P-B-L model of Southern Pacific #8 (narrow gauge) for less than $500 including shipping and this week I picked up a PFM C-16 (also in Sn3) for only $368 [...]