Roberto,
on the upper right corner of this page, you will find the word "Resources". You can search for hobby shops there, just click on the word.
Roberto -- I understand you are having trouble locating the vehicles (non-railroad).
Just searching "wagon" on the Walthers site brings up 80 modes in HO scale. About 20 of them would be very appropriate to an Old West theme. Jordan Miniatures even makes an old west stagecoach, which is about as iconic as you can get. Their models are frankly difficult to assemble, but they are beautiful once completed.
Just to make sure we have out terminology straight: when you say "diorama", we English speaking types are thinking about somehting small -- usually a square meter or less -- on which nothing moves. For something with moving trains, we use the word "layout". Several of your comments have made me think that is what you are making. This is not a criticism, as your English is very good, but an attempt to help with communicating through the language barrier.
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
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CTValley,
thanks for your notes, and don't worry - I did't take it as a criticism at all.
Indeed, I understand that my terminology is much lacking.
You're right, I intend to make " something " with running train(s) i.e. a layout - I wrongly translated it into diorama as such a word is used in Italian too, but, indeed, it refers to a static thing - often, a war scene or something like that.
And I'm afraid that I misused also the word " wagon " as I really meant " cars " - I was mislead by the fact that in Italian the cars are called " vagoni ", so I translated by ear...
Okay, this gives me a further indication of the difficulty of the task - if I stumble on words...
Thanks again,
Roberto
Silly me. I know darned well that what we call railroad cars are called wagons in Europe. I let parochialism get the better of me on that one.
I have a set of "Old Fashioned Passenger Cars" about 40' in length, that were made by Model Power. It doesn't look like these are made anymore. Bachmann still has some, very generic ones. Con-Cor is apparently releasing an entire line of them in the fall, which is just around the corner, so you may be in luck.
Good afternoon Roberto,
I thought I would give you a followup to what I posted earlier. I did a google seach on Virginia City, Silver City, and the Virginia and Truckee Railroad and then clicked on images. I was taken back by the rich selection of images, all you need to do is remove the modern elements from some of the pictures.
I model the later 1970's in the mid Atlantic US so I've spent very little time looking into what is local to me now.
Mark H
Modeling in HO...Reading and Conrail together in an alternate history.
Thank you Mark for your suggestion, I will follow it.
All the best
CTVAlleyRR, one of the nice expects of participating forums is to learn new English words. I didn't know " parochialism " bu it's meaning is easily understandable to Italian ears, as it stongly recalls the Italian word " parrocchia " = parish.
Thanks for everything again
Leighant,
I'm writing a biography of George Parr and I came across your posing of a model of the Zertuche General Store. You are correct in writing that it was part of a federal court case.
George Parr was on trial for tax evasion in 1974 and the Zertuche General Store, which was dubbed "The Phantom Store" because it existed only on paper.
My interest is in the photo you posted of the store model. I would be interested in including it in my book with full credit to the photographer.
Your attention to this matter is appreciated.
Anthony Carrozza
acarrozza@yahoo.com