Bear...
Here is another link to a story I wrote for Labelle.......... it's about bending fine wire for grab irons.
https://www.labellemodels.com/twisting-wire-great-grab-irons-p-1376.html?osCsid=poegitjv8l3p1vk2ovr0a30n84
see ya
Bob
Bob, had read and bookmarked both of them.
Thanks and Cheers, The Bear
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
The oldest, and the first locomotive I have, is a Varney F-3 which first touched the rails of my layout in September, 1947. (I number my motive power with the month and year it first sees service)
I was in 7th grade at the time and the zimac body was painted with a brush. I am now 78 yuears old. I never repainted it because it was my "first effort"
It was given a Hobbytown of Boston ??? chassis and running gear sometime in the 1950s. It is heavy, and it runs well and will still pull the wallpaper off of the wall.
Sorry, no pictures. I recently moved to Wisconsin from Idaho and the loco is somewhere burried in my stuff.
Hello the oldest I think is my dads Varney it was a kit he got it for his 15th birthday in 1945 . I found a b unit a few years ago still a unbuilt kit . I also have a MDC 0-6-0 he got around the same time.
They still run and see track time every few months. Have a nice day Frank
The oldest stuff I have on my layout would be from the 1980s.
AHM? general store (yellow with green window and door castings)
Small Bachmann railway station (roof cut down and converted to a gas station)
Heljan octagonal water tower
Athearn SW7 dummy loco (heavily modified to represent a CN SW1200RS)