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#1
Kit Building / FSM Kit #50 Versus #210
March 04, 2024, 07:08:41 AM
Anyone know what the difference between the two FSM icing facility kits are?

thanks,
Joe
#2
Seeking Kit... / Looking for SRMW H W Myers
January 04, 2024, 07:15:04 AM
Anyone have an H W Myers kit they are willing to part with?

Thanks,

Joe
#3
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Sunday, December 3, 2023
December 03, 2023, 06:10:51 AM
Good Morning, Going to the Albany NY train show today. Maybe I'll find some nice things to buy?
#4
Selling Kit... / Kits for Sale
January 27, 2022, 01:28:10 PM
I'm leaving HO and have several kits I'd like to sell. I have the following:

SRMW Tucker and Cook            $299.00
SRMW Wrisley Papers              $265.00
FSM 120 2 Stall Engine House  $110.00
FSM 145 Coal Tower                  $110.00
FSM  155 Branch line Bucket         $90.00
FSM 230  Coal Dock                       $90.00

All prices include shipping to continental US. You can contact me at joebaio@optonline.net.

Thanks,
Joe Baio
#5
Seeking Kit... / Seeking Kit Freshwater Models
December 17, 2020, 08:24:16 AM
Hello,

Anyone have a Freshwater Models ho Sellars turntable kit they want to part with?

thanks,
Joe
#6
Kit Building / Stripwood
October 02, 2020, 07:55:06 AM
Hello,

This has probably been asked before but I tried a search and came up empty. I have been building a few craftsman kits and have been finding some missing parts. I have been buying some oldies and it's understandable that there would be missing pieces but sometimes it's a brand new factory sealed kit that is missing something or maybe it doesn't have enough of the product to complete the kit. It's no big deal and I understand that there are slip ups from time to time. Right now I need some wood to build the rungs of a ladder on a Campbell water tank.  I would like to put in an order for supplies maybe to Northeastern so when these shortfalls occur I have what I need on hand to continue.

I'm thinking regular dimensional lumber like 2x4, 2x6, etc. some scribed siding but maybe someone here might have a list or suggestions that would help.

thanks in advance
Joe
#7
Selling Kit... / FS: Three O Scale Bar Mills Kits
July 31, 2020, 07:47:06 AM
These were purchased at Springfield in 2018 and have not been out of the box.

Baileys Produce  List 249.95  Asking 199.00
TJ Reillys  List 235  Asking 189.00

Bought this one on Ebay last year, came in a Bar Mills wood box so looks to be old. list 145.00 Asking 80.00

Free shipping to lower 48.

thanks,
Joe
#8
Kit Building / FSM 2 Stall Engine House
June 07, 2020, 09:13:18 AM
I think I have MRADD. This is an affliction where one cannot focus on a type of modeling or a scale, I like them all hence my handle Rubbergauge.

I started my model railroad hobby in the late 70's as a member of the Bay Ridge club in Brooklyn. This was an O Scale outside third rail club that had an automatic train control system using telephone company switching relays. There was quite a racket of clicking when the trains were running. It was in the basement of an apartment house on Marine Ave. This was a very old club with a great bunch of guys. I lost touch with them when I moved to the burbs. I passed by there a few years ago and it looked like it was gone. I was surprised to hear it is being moved and assembled at the Kingston NY trolley museum.

Also in Brooklyn at the time was an HO club on 4th Ave that I would visit and upon each visit be torn with the urge to change to HO. I'm still conflicted and since then in addition to O I have had On3 models, HO models, I recently sold off my large collection of Sn3. So I provide a service to the hobby buying items at full price and reselling at a discount.

I never had room for a layout living in apartments and houses with no basements. I recently retired and moved to a house with a big empty basement. Another interest is 71/4 inch equipment and I belong to the Adirondak Live Steamers and I recently completed a loop of track around my house. So now I'm ready to start a layout and I'm going to clean out my remainder of O/On3 and hopefully stick with HO. I'm going HO because I want to get into operations and I love structure kits and HO has so many I'd like to build. I've visited George, Dick Elwell, Chris Adams, Jim Dufour and many others and was quite impressed by all. I don't think I can do anything up to the standards and artistry of these folks but it's something fun to pass the time and maybe I'll have some success.

The town I live in Millerton NY has a rich railroad history with until 1937 four railroads coming thru town and three of them converged at a wye at the Connecticut/NY State Line that is a few thousand feet from my house. Coal from Pennsylvania was floated across the Hudson river and brought across Dutchess County and transferred at the State Line wye for shipment through out New England. This is what I'd like to model. Right now I'm in the analysis paralysis stage of trying to come up with a track plan. I thinking maybe I need to retain a design service. I bought 3rdplanit but it seems to me to be difficult to learn.

I've built a lot of structure kits in S scale and think the Crystal River and Raggs to Riches are among the best. I was going to try and build an O scale version of the FSM Coal Bunker but it looked really to big. I never built one of George's kits and recently saw his 2 stall engine house for sale on Ebay. I always admired this kit so I bought it. I also have a Coal Bunker coming. When the engine house came I was surprised at how well preserved it was and that there was a bag of pebbles in it. So far I'm liking this kit and here is the beginning of my build.
#9
Scratchbuilding / Ethical Scratcbuilding
November 12, 2018, 02:21:18 PM
Hello,

This is my first post on this forum. I admire many of the past HO scale structures offered in kit form. I visited several layouts after the last Expo and saw the beautiful FSM and South River kits in finished form as well as others on these layouts. I'd like to do some in O gauge and since they are no longer manufactured and never offered in O would it be ethical to ask this community for copies of plans from some of these kits and build an O gauge copy?

thanks,
Joe
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