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HObbyline HO collectors take note: Life and the acquisition of Vintage collectable HO trains hasn't stopped. But it has slowed down quite a bit just like me. The main problem with collecting vintage trains is those uncatalogued items that keep turning up you can't account for. They match...

Vintage trains from Bethlehem Train show 4-24-22

This photo is items which arrived on 4-13-22. These are another group of vintage tank cars I viewed on the Bay. As you can see these aren't as nice as the last group of 9 tank cars. First car is Mantua Hercules gun power. Recording number HPCX 575 next a silver with black dome Conoco CONX 593...

Well, the old stuff still attracts my attention. A couple of week back a group of 9 tank cars came up at auction on the bay. Here's what they looked like. 3 Varney's, 2 HObbyline, 2 Gilbert,1 Thomas, and 1 Tyco. I was looking for another Rohm Hass tank car and the Union Starch is also nice. All...

I went to a Wayne NJ train show and acquired some more trains. You'll recognize most of them. The four box cars in the left row are Penn Lines. Bellow them are 2 HObbyline cars. The whole middle row is more HObbyline cars. the right-side row is first 5 tank cars, Walters Athearn's, Gilbert...

Other Red Ball kits I have not done yet are Express reefer ( 2 of them), Wrecking Crane, and Pay Car. Lookin at the Wrecking Crane kit and seeing all the parts and the 2 instruction sheets is kind of scary. The 2 express reefers are almost complete, I just need decals and the Pay is just a lot...

The Red Ball Northern Pacific RR old style wood express reefer, "The fruit Car" frank

Another Car Red Ball made is the Overland Oil and transportation Company. A weird box car with a oil tank built into the floor.

Another Red all cac is the Acid tank Car. Roan name is Monsanto. frank

Here is another red Ball car the Photographer's car.

Here is the red Borden's milk car.

Well now to cover a HO train line I only have a few trains they produced. I have never seen a ready to run car by them., only kits. The first ones i got were to easiest to find at train shows because of their very different shape and done in either white or red always stuck out almost saying...

John English and HObbyline didn't make a Hustler. Well, a Lionel hustler first came out in 1958 that was a year that Lionel was being supplied with some Locos and cars from Athearn. This is the first year they had the Hustler. #0560 was a D&RG black diesel with a yellow cab side. It had a...

Here are my twin set of Western Pacific FA-1's made by HObbyline, Because they were released in 1955 a year when Mr. English released only cabooses with a HObbyline Roadname no WP caboose was offered. HObbyline did have a WP box car in 1957 and it was released only in a KIt you put together and...

A photo of a little trollie I have that looks to be just like the one shown here in a drawing I posted. Bergan Point Jto Jersey City.

I like your answer. Comedy helps it removes tension from trying too hard.

Here I am 10 years later on and still reading through old threads. I have a little more info to add to this on. When searching through info I found this Drawing oa a mysteriously powered streetcar in Jersey city I think about post-civil war period. It is the only drawing on this type streetcar I...

This car you can partially see to the right of the MYC MDT refer in the last post. It is another find from 5-8-21. all were photoed together. Here is a North Carolina and Saint Louis railroad boxcar To and From Dixieland Route. This a Varney boxcar of all-metal construction made in that...

Another car I found at the same flea market is this New York Central, Merchant Dispash reefer. It again is a metal car from the 50-60 periods made by Varney. This car is how I found it. I haven't cleaned it up yet. This car shows its age and tells of time spent out in the open on a shelf or on...

Now I saw a few other cars I wanted I wanted to get, so returned the following Saturday 5-8-21, and got a few more. Again this GAEX boxcar is made by the same company Athearn as the WP Feather boxcar. It is also an excellently preserved piece of HO history. frank