I’ve been looking for a 343 locomotive for awhile and I finally found one on eBay. I’ve had mixed results buying American Flyer electric trains on eBay – a lot of times the seller will rate the item a grade or 2 higher than it actually is, and a lot of flaws don’t show up [...]
My main interest in S Scale is prototype modeling, especially SP’s operations in California’s Owens Valley – the Slim Princess narrow gauge and the standard gauge Jawbone branch. I want a train in my garage though, and I’m not going to put my expensive brass engines in the harsh (relatively speaking) environment of my Man [...]
I just bought my first American Flyer train set. Well, I didn’t actually buy a set because complete American Flyer train sets are pretty expensive. Instead I bought individual components to make my own set. I got everything on EBay. The first thing I got was an American Flyer locomotive. Some of the rarer and [...]
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 [...]