1860's Trains

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Hi Y’all

I’m looking to make some dioramas with train gear such as the USMRR flatcar and 4-4-0 Loco’s.

Is there a inexpencive dealer out there or someone with non running gear that can be bashed to fit the era?

Also who makes O to G or 1 scale wood arm trucks with 33" wheel sets for this era?

Thnaks for the assist y’all.

Yours in service

James Acerra

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You might join these Yahoo Groups. There is quite a lot of information for this era. I belong to both but I model 1890.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Civil_War_RRs/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Civil_War_Railroads_Pix/

rich

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Try these guys - their HO “War Between the States” stuff is pretty good, and I understand they’re going to be releasing some O scale stuff soon.

http://www.btsrr.com/

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They are also in the Yahoo Civil War Groups.

The Yahoo Groups have a Files and Photos section with a lot of good information.

Keyport Car and Foundry has some Civil War train parts (trucks, link & pin couplers) but he is only online via email but you can question him on the Civil War groups.

rich

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Your best bet is to do the Civil war in 1/72 scale. Bachmann has cars that are available in sets that are aproxamately 1/76th scale, model trains OO scale. The Bachmann oldtime 4-4-0’s are HO scale and are too small for the cars.

IHC made Oldtime 4-4-0’s that are excellent models for OO scale Civil war era. They also made a cattle car that is an excellent Pennsy model. The Model Power/Mantua Old Time freight cars, too tall for HO, are perfect for OO scale Civil War models

An IHC 4-4-0 with a 1/76 scale figure

There are many sets of soldiers for the Civil War in the 1/76/1/72 range.

http://www.michtoy.com/index.html

Harold

I have an updated article about modeling the 1860’s/1870’s in OO/HO at:

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/1879/why/

Thank you if you visit