Looking for that vintage blue tinted glass? Bill Denton shows how it’s done…
Italy has a pretty good track record of producing some amazing designers – Ferrari, Armani, Versace – that are known worldwide. A bit of that culture has apparently rubbed off on Roberto Martari. Roberto has designed the premier line of N scale etched brass sides which are available through his company, M&R Models. For those …
by Mike Skibbe Back before Kato began their “name” train releases, they released two series of passenger cars that did not form any particular train. Rather, the smoothside and corrugated releases followed the standard mix of matching baggage, RPO, coach, diner, sleeper, dome, and observation cars. While the smoothside cars followed UP prototypes (observation excluded) …
by Mike Skibbe In 2011, Kato released an 11-car passenger set of Union Pacific’s City of Los Angeles (COLA) domeliner. The set as issued by Kato is appropriate for mid-1956. We thought it would be appropriate to do a little research on the City of Los Angeles (Train 103 westbound and 104 eastbound) and see …
I’m dedicating this consist to friend and World Champion San Francisco Giants fan Chuck Ciaccio. Back in the day, the San Francisco Chief would have brought me from Chicago to San Fran to visit.