Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

I only had the big plastic choo-choo that spits smoke and goes around an 8 shaped track.
Grew up a sucker for static models. In fact I just got this 3 boxes a half hour ago!

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

Like the UK, I expect the States sold the technology to China way back. In the early seventies an ICI technical rep that visited me regularly on business told me he had just returned from China, where ICI had sold plastics manufacturing knowledge. He warned me then that it would continue apace and the manufacturing industry in which I worked was under threat. He was right.

nervous2 Loc: Provo, Utah

Going to have to watch this after my wife goes to bed. Otherwise she will get very nervous.

b top gun

During what I consider to have been the "golden age" of HO scale model railroading, there were those heavy into steam locomotives that were hand crafted out of brass. Some of the very best were imported into the USA from Japan by PFM (Pacific Fast Mail). The photo is of a Great Northern 2-6-8-0 articulated, factory painted in the GN Glacier Park color scheme. This is a Tenshodo "Crown" edition, a limited run typically sought after by collectors. I would like to have seen video of one of these models being built and decorated. Some later models had sound and had backhead detail in the locomotive cab.

Soul Dr. Loc: Beautiful Shenandoah Valley

Jerry, N gauge that is about 1/3 rd the size of HO and there is Z gauge which is even smaller than N gauge.
To build anything in Z gauge you need to wear magnifying glasses.
I've had HO and N gauge layouts, but never ventured into Z gauge.
At one time I actually worked as a professional model builder.

Will