Happy to hear it. 
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Ladies and gentlemen,
It has been too long but I’m taking a few minutes to get back into doing what I need to be doing here. I ordered these books recently. I read excerpts of Extra South decades ago and it’s one of the things that revived my interest in model railroading. One of the special interest groups that helped kindle and expand my knowledge of railroads is the Frisco (St Louis and San Francisco Railroad) group. I became a great fan of the Frisco railroad.
When our kitchen work is complete, my wife said she will prepare me some meals from the recipes contained in this book. Unfortunately, I have no Frisco China to eat it from. But that’s what train shows are for! Right?
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I saw that recently the Illinois Railway Museum had a short dinner run on one of their historic trains - back in May - the Zephyr dinner train. We couldn’t make that weekend, but it looked like fun. I imagine there are more around the country.
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So the RPO did not really deliver these, I bought them at the train show a couple of weeks ago.
I’ve been needing some backdrop buildings for my scale layout. Found this nifty little warehouse.
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Back to HO. Found this cool depot. Very heavy. Not ceramic. The upper floor comes off. Lots of opportunities to detail the lower level. It doesn’t have any window panes, though.
Does anyone know what model this is? I actually haven’t had a chance to research it yet but I will after I hit post.
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I’m guessing the architecture is Victorian? That search led me to Scale Structures Limited (SS LTD). Haven’t found that exact kit tho…
Is there anything molded in to the bottom parts?
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I did a search of Google with the Google photo search feature, and it came back as a Classic Miniatures Train Depot 31905. But I don’t know if that is right or not.
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Hi Ko.Sp.1, have you ever broken this out to start putting it together?
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“broken this out” - yes
Sourced parts for wheels and things - yes
"start putting it together’ - not yet 
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Fred. Both these items would be great fo posting on the “RR Structures; Show & Tell” thread.
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It shall be done.
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So this was in the mail. A recent eBay acquisition at a good price.
This is an Overland Models import built by Ajin/Korea. It is one of a run of 45 pieces imported in 2001, factory painted in 3 different road numbers. That makes this piece 1 of 15 of 45 and normally it would be considered a collectors piece and command a significantly higher price. However it is missing the original box, or any box, and the parts bag is gone and the pieces were not installed on the model. It also has a broken solder joint where one of the ladder hoops connects to the top of the ladder.
I have empty Overland boxes so I can solve some of that issue. I can fabricate and install the necessary detail parts and the solder repair is rather simple w/the equipment I have. As a modeler though it has one other glaring problem. These cars never had blue roofs. They were silver as delivered from International Car Co. when built and when they were repainted into Chessie colors the roof was silver as well. So I will repaint the roof and totally destroy it’s collectors value.
Good thing I’m not a collector, just a normal modeler with a large stash.
Tim
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Tim, good score! She’s a beauty.
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Letter carrier delivered this today. Rapido’s new GP-38. It’s a beaut. It will pair up nicely with some other B&O power. B&O is either run-through or leased power in my world of Erie Lackawanna, CNJ and Penn Central.
Jimbo
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Just pulled this from the catcher pouch:
I’ve never been fan of Colorado narrow gauge although I certainly do understand it’s appeal. But the Georgetown Loop has always been fascinating to me. And now the narrow gauge is growing up me.
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I wonder how many people ever learned or still know what that actually means (not counting railroad fans)
I presume that most US Americans know what a catcher is
but would be extremely confused as to WHY you would
stick your hands into his pouch …
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