Lloyd, Nate ran Nate's Light Iron Hobbies from his home. The female voice was most likely his wife Amy. Mark Lewis

Yes Nathan Kline passed away 3 weeks ago. He was a very good friend of mine. I bought some brass from him a year and a half ago. Two old Eastie locomotives and two caboose's. He was a great friend and

The phone # is active and it was a female voice message. I suspect the business may still be on going. lloyd lehrer 310 951-9097 -- lloyd lehrer

Sadly, I have just learned of the passing a few weeks ago of Nathan Klein of Nate’s Light Iron Hobbies. I purchased from him, luckily, some Blackstone C-19s before they started going for crazy

Eric, Thanks for the offer...Let me do some research to see if I can find more detailed drawings of the these trucks! John

Bob, Thanks for that link...I'm not a big fan of Shapeways printing. But these are very tempting! John

In the for what it’s worth category, I learned at the NNGC that Blackstone is once again repairing first run locomotives by replacing the first run motors with their more recent motors. I don’t

RGSFAN, If you have a decent set of drawings for them or some good pictures with known dimensions I can take a stab at cooking some up for 3D printing, I've had good luck with printed trucks for D&RGW

Turn it upside downand look at the connector wires to the drawbar, both loco and tender. Ifthey're multicoloured coloured braided wire, it's a 1st run. If they'renot, it's not a first run. Only the

Bill Meredith at Leadville DESIGNS offers a Pullman 6' passenger truck, dont know if its closer to what you are looking for.

Also…motor assemblies could have been changed as well. Something to consider. Craig

Jim, Use this Blackstone link. Click on the 2006 listing, which is the first production run. If your locomotive part # is listed there, then you have a very good chance to have a Chinese factory, over

Is there a way to tell by the numbers on the locomotive box which were the earlier engine with over oiling problem and which were later engine without the problem. Jim

I can't help with your quest for trucks but Linn Moedinger has a 3D printed model already.I built a model using his version of parlor car Salida for my

Hi all, For years, I've been trying to buy an Overland models C&S RPO#13 Model without any luck....I've decided to scratch build one instead. The one thing that stands in the way of a true

that is, without any doubt, an MDC / Roundhouse loco. if you think you'd rather sell it than convert it, i am interested. Kevin. arcatruck13@... So

This one would benefit from lowering the boiler... but if you do you may need to remotor. To lower you cut the cylinder saddle off the cylinder block and either just glue back on after removing a bit

Thanks for confirming. I have locos to run so I can take my time installing a decoder, between all the other projects. LOL Larry G

Looks like an MDC Round house Hon3 2-8-0 to me,, a worthy project especially if your on a budget.

So beginning my new layout build since our move I am like a kid at Christmas. Opening boxes seeing what I have either not marked or marked incorrectly I have come across this loco. I belive it might