More art-deco style buildings, especially stores and office buildings. You can use the from the 30s up to today.
Atlas Custom Line switches with retention springs like Peco has.
Again a bulk trailer good for the 50's on. Would allow transload sites on many model railroads. Also a good working rotary dumper and rotary couplers that will fit in a standard coupler box. Lionel made a beautifull rotary dumper a few years back for their 3 rail stuff. It was a very nice scale model . Also a working coal loader . ---- Ken
trevorsmith3489golf carts
switch stands with "backsaver" levers
I'm an N-scale model railroader and an HO-scale fire apparatus collector. I'm going to echo many of the previous posters here. In N-scale we need American highway vehicles from all eras, but I would like to see American cars/trucks from the 1960's to the present. In HO-scale I would like to see more American fire apparatus on both commercial and custom chassis.
1/87th scale model kits of ships and USN submarines (you can buy a VIIC in 1/87th scale, but Im not modeling Germany during WW2, so not really useful).
Artitec makes this model of a US/UK midget submarine in cast resin 1/87 scale.
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It costs about $70.00 for the kit. I have been trying to find out how big it is, and what era it is from. If suitable I would love to rust it up and make it into a scrap load for a gondola.
I know nothing about submarines.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
SeeYou190I know nothing about submarines.
I know a bit about submarines. I'm pretty sure its not a USN submarine. Maybe an early Holland or Lake boat that didnt get accepted? Might be a RN midget sub, but I dont know much about those.
Might also be a German submarine, considering the only other submarine they make is a VIIC....
Modern fire trucks year 2000 - now
A four-aspect signal system (clear, approach medium, approach, stop).
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
I will second this one. The clinic i attended a few years ago that Jim Sacco (City Classics) did at the Atlanta NMRA convention really openned my eyes to this sort of thing. Just about all of the Magnusun, DPM, Walthers Cornerstone, Lunde, etc downtown buildings have the original turn-of-the-century storefronts. From the 1930's-50's, most of those buildings were significantly updated with tings like aluminum trim, big plate glass windows, recessed entries, shiny surfaces like (enameled panels or vitrolite), front slip covers over the upper floors, and big flashy signs. There were all sorts of combinations from mild to really wild and it happened in towns all over the country no matter how big or small.
Based on the large number of modelers in the postwar and transition areas I would think such buildings would be very useful and really help to set the timeframe. Jim has about 3 such buildings that he added to his own lineup but other than that the options are very few.
-Jason
See what a company called American Excellence carries. I think they have a few cars around $30 or less that fits the 70s,80s,and 90s. The have a Chrysler PT Cruiser too .I like their Chevy Camero Z28,Dodge Monaco,Buick Riviera,LeSabre and Chevy Caprice. Also check out the Cadillac Seville Mark 2. Never seen that in HO scale but it's $30 !
Modern era stuff.
Cars
Crews
figures
buildings
etc.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).