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I haven't bought or built any Tiger Valley Alcos myself, but I've seen some run. Since they're cast metal, they're very heavy and have great pulling power. I think some of the locos I've seen use Tiger Valley bodies on Atlas mechanisms. Tiger Valley is reported to be very much a one-man operation, a...

I second March Hare's desire for more common, ordinary vehicles as distinct from sports cars, muscle cars and other more exotic items, of which plenty are already available. I'd particularly like to get models of some cars my family has owned, starting with a 1955 Plymouth station wagon, a 1961 stat...

I would estimate that the ridership on the rush hour Fitchburg Route trains between South Acton, West Concord, Concord and Porter Square that I've ridden this week has been about half normal. The parking lots have had plenty of spaces, too -- for once. No delays worse than those that occur during ot...

I've received one troop sleeper and one kitchen car that I'd ordered sight unseen, and now that I've seen them I've ordered a three-pack of the troop sleepers. That should make a good train, appropriately short for my small model railroad. The instruction sheets that show where to install the hand g...

If Walthers in fact made an MBTA F40PH, and I'm not sure I saw one, the purple was the same as on their MBTA coaches and cab cars: much too bright, and much too pink. Bachmann had a Spectrum F40PH that in most respects was inferior to the Walthers model, but at least they got the MBTA's purple right...

Hobbycraft Canada (Life-Like's Canadian affiliate) offered two Napierville Junction Proto 1000 RS-2's last year as part of a run with Canadian paint jobs. Unfortunately, both were in the black and yellow scheme worn by one of the units relatively late in its career, WITHOUT the end stripes and with ...

A recent announcement at www.aat-net.de (the website of All-American Trains of Kaarst, German) says Proto 2000 Alco RS-2's are forthcoming in the Delaware & Hudson's original black paint with yellow lettering (and, we may fervently hope, end stripes). Delivery is expected in December. This websi...

A new posting at www.lifelikeproducts.com shows that the second run of GP38-2's, including D&H and B&M engines, is due in October.

Probably the two closest sizable clubs to Framingham are the Nashua Valley club in Bolton (Route 85 just south of 117) and the Worcester group, now located, I think, in an industrial park southeast of that city. Try visiting the NMRA's Index to Worldwide Rail Sites at www.cwrr.com/nmra and looking f...

I'm relying almost entirely on my memory here, but I was born in 1946 and have been in model railroading since the 1950's. A warehouse or similar structure in use in the Fifties almost surely would have had the corrugated roll-up doors. In a recent article in one of the model railroad magazines abou...

I have participated actively in the present Atlas Forums (HO mostly, but also O and N) and their predecessors for years. I do enjoy writing. But I've also learned a great deal from other participants' posts. It may be worth something to Atlas to answer one question on a forum where many others wonde...

I learned just this morning from a Walthers mailing that arrived at a hobby shop May 25 that the firm will be offering its ready-to-run Pullman-Standard 52-seat streamlined coach in D&H paint and lettering. Order #932-16762, $34.98 list, "expected" August 28. I put this on the Atlas HO...

I learned just this morning from a Walthers mailing that arrived at a hobby shop May 25 that the firm will be offering its ready-to-run Pullman-Standard 52-seat streamlined coach in D&H paint and lettering. Order #932-16762, $34.98 list, "expected" August 28. I put this on the Atlas HO...

I received my copy of this new book from Morning Sun, by Jeremy and Jeffrey Plant, yesterday; I've now had a good chance to look it over. It's very good indeed. There's more on the D&H and the Napierville Junction in Canada than in earlier books; for that matter, there's more on the D&H from...