I still have some of that old Tru-Scale self gauging roadbed as well as plain roadbed unused. I bought some from a hobby store clearance sale and never got around to using it.
It's still available here http://www.troutcreekeng.com/bkho.html but I think it's only the plain roadbed.
Although I changed scales from HO, I still have several boxes of stuff from the 70's. Don't have an HO layout currently, but I may set up a display layout just to show the old stuff.
Enjoy
Paul
I have some really old equipment on my layout such as this all metal Athearn 250 ton crane made about 1951, and this old brass Baldwin AS616 diesel made back in the 1970s. I added a can motor in the diesel and had painted it myself. The Athearn Crane is so heavy you can see that it can hold the diesel up off the track. I think there were some really well made models back then.
You are talking about the old Tru-Scale track. Still have a short piece for wheel cleaning for my motive power.
This old Athearn Geep is at least 50.
It was originally a rubber-band drive unit. Now, the motor and drive belts are gone, and it runs as a sound-equipped dummy engine. This Suydam cardboard Swift plant model is even older. I got it used back in the 1950s. I have no idea when it was built.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Eriediamond Ok, this may be crazy, but does anyone remember the wooden milled roadbed from the 40's?- 50's that you hand laid rail into and does anyone still have it. On second thought how far back does things go that are on your layout?
Ok, this may be crazy, but does anyone remember the wooden milled roadbed from the 40's?- 50's that you hand laid rail into and does anyone still have it. On second thought how far back does things go that are on your layout?
Sounds like Tru-Scale track. I believe the product was still being manufactured as late as the 1980s. I thought I read on another post that it is no longer being made although somebody might still have some stock available.
Dan
This Athearn Geep is probably about 30 years old. It received a detail and paint job over 20 years ago along with a can motor, and later got new trucks. I recently found it in a box and repaired it, plus I dropped a DCC decoder in it to run along with my newer locos.
Rob Spangler