Dave Van

As kids we'd sneak out 'Why is there air' LP, put it in the huge console stereo and listen while our folks were gone. The whole thing is a cluster **........Many of those involved have hands as dirty as Cosby......but that's SOP today.

These may qualify........ RGS Goose rail cars. Made from Pierce Arrow road cars, bus body and a box car. Cool at any rate. Knott's Berry Farm has a Goose restored and runs daily.....I got a full tour on my last visit.

So it is what I had guessed prior in this thread........Hobbico dump...... thx for posting

That could be life.....

Rommel's, TJ Taxi, Circus Dragon Wagon are all new China tools so that makes sense. The Beer and Baja in China is kinda logical too. The real question is how many TD molds are intact and usable??? That's what I'll wait to hear about!!!

Since the statement came from Tom Daniel about Tom Daniel I think we can assume he is referencing ONLY Tom Daniel molds/tooling. Pretty clear I think/hope.....

Maybe return Sand Shark back into Dog Catcher like Bill Lastovich planned before his passing???? Dream big!!!

That's been out for a few months. I did some consulting on that kit. The decals included can be used to build a number of different versions. The real car ran with different combinations of the style numbers and block numbers. You can also build the black, red and white version Bobby ran for a short period. The 70's issue of the kit......decals were awful....sized wrong and incomplete...so this is the first issue that is buildable.

Got a Lil Hot Dogger in Mattews NC......

I love the gritty city look........my layout is set 1955 or so......a diner I built...

I use the old 90's era AMT NASCAR kits for the rear trailing arms.....you can do the same with the front suspension from those kits. If you want to go super easy....trim off the torsion bars and add a small dia plastic rod from the lower control arm (at the ball joint) at a 45 degree angle to the lower radiator/frame support.

X2 Bring on the Baja Bandito......

Cool!

Never seen one of those......half way to a rat truck!!!

Thankfully in a free economy we get to pick what we spend money on. Would I prefer a 99% PERFECT kit??? YES!! But it comes down to personal choices.....buy or not. As I said if body is good, corrected suspension....I'll buy a few. Another great thing about a free economy is ANYONE can make a better product and out sell the inferior. thx

There should be sheet metal 'crush panels' in those gaps around the rear chassis. I'm not a apologist for JR but if the body is 95% correct and the chassis suspension corrected I'll give them a passing grade. Running a hobby company (two of them) and working in the kit biz....I KINDA understand.

Wow.......cool to see another On30 modeler. I by chance am sitting here working on a On30 stock (cattle) car. Looks like Peco track....just ordered more myself. A little diesel A few of my On30 scratch freight cars....

Cool track plan!!!!

Here is a video by another friend.......Rich has some good shots of 'Scale 3 Rail'.....it is a commercial of sorts....but shows off scale 3 rail well....

O scale is MANY things........there is even a group that models 100% scale everything including wheel flange which means your track MUST be perfect perfect and you have to make a lot of stuff. (they use track a scale 4' 81/2" gauge for track....even 2 rail O uses 5' established in the 1920's) But much of O 3rail has gone 'scale' for everything but track. The 3 rails is a holdover from when Lionel ruled the world. The level of detail and size is matched the 2 rail O scale guys. In fact many of these $2000 locomotives cone with wheels for 3 rail track or a set you can swap out for two rail track......everything else is the same no matter 2 or 3 rail. It's confusing for sure. The only thing more confusing is 'G' scale with it's MANY ratios and 'scales'.......that is a can of worms!!

O scale 3 rail hobby today is MUCH more SCALE oriented than TOY oriented. Folks in O 3rail have no issue spending $1500 on a single loco. I am a scale runner but rely on older models I fix up as I can't pay the $15--=2,000 going rate today. This is one of my favorites......PRR S-1 loco....almost 4 feet long!

Cool!!!

GREAT to see folks here that know, understand and like the G&D like I........thx

I'd buy all those you listed.......

Wonder if they have the mold for that????