This guide is designed to give you a basic introduction into collecting glass and porcelain insulators. Specifically I will assist you in how to identify them, determine their age, value, rarity and condition...
I read an ad on ebay which advertised an Elgin pocket watch as a "RAILROAD WATCH" perhaps at some time in the past this watch had been carried by someone, probably a passenger,riding on a railroad, but it...
On Ebay, you usually see about 10 to 20 "Wells Fargo" brass or bronze belt buckles at any given time. I hate to tell you this, but almost all of them are fakes. They have been made by various makers since the...
Early Windup (235) The all time most popular MARX steam streamliner is the Marx Canadian Pacific style locomotive. It was made from 1936 to 1952. An amazing 403,000 plus production units of this design have...
So you are interested in building a model train layout. Well, there is more to it than just putting track and buildings on a chunk of plywood. Before you even decide to buy any train equipment there are...
Anyone who wants to know more about model railways or toy trains which they have acquired faces an immediate problem in distinguishing between at least five different systems all bearing the name 'Hornby'....
So you want to know if a Brass Model Train will be a good investment. The Wall Street Journal once said that brass trains are a better investment than the stock market! Will they be the next 'big thing'? Will...
Recently, there have been a number of auctions on eBay for vintage toy train calendars, usually purportedly from Lionel. These calendars always start with Saturday, January 1st and are claimed to have been...
The Monongahela Connecting Railroad (AAR reporting mark MCRR) or Mon Conn is a small industrial railroad in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was a subsidiary of the Jones Laughlin Steel Company and a large...
The New York, Ontario Western, also known as the "Old Woman" or the "Old and Weary", was the first major railroad in the northeastern US to go bankrupt, in 1957. By 1976, every major railroad in the northeast...