Hello all. I just had a couple questions I thought I would try and seek some advice for. I just signed up here today though I have been getting Model Railroader and others forever. I am a Union Civil War Reenactor with the 10th Illinois and HUGE history buff. That tends to wanna blend in with my HO scale model railroading. I have modeled a mid 1900’s era Pennsylvania railroad all the way up to including us Civil War Reenactors doing reenactments and having encampments.
The questions I have are if anyone knows of or has heard of places to get Civil War era rolling stock, building styles, etc… Locomotives are not hard to come by, but I can rarely find rolling stock. I have scratch built a lot of buildings to suit what I needed. What I would really like to find are people in HO scale in Civil War atire and period wear or at least something simular that I could work with to make them into soldiers. Mine are out of scale but they are the smallest I could find. would like cannons, horse and buggies, etc… as well. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
There is a Yahoo CW railroad group with quite a lot of info in the Files and Photos sections of the group.
Dom’t know how active the group is. I do know one person from the group was selling CW labeled rolling stock and locos on ebay. Sometimes he sold flat cars with cannons on them. Go to the HO Scale section and search for Civil War. You will get results. I just did. Be careful, some people try to label as Civil War when the stuff is not.
This is the Civil War group,http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Civil_War_RRs/ . It is very active, although Union guys seem to be outnumbered by the Rebs!![:O] Go to the site and sign up. In a few days you will be a member - no dues or anything. I get about 3 to 10 e-mails every day on all kinds of subjects they are discussing. They also have a lot of links to suppliers and tons of pics! [:)]
I have a set of HO scale Civil War era rolling stock that was made by International Hobby Corporation many years ago. It’s even marked U.S. Military RR, but I’m not sure how accurate it may be. I don’t run it. It is on a display shelf at our HO scale club.
I haven’t seen these advertised by IHC for about 10 years so I doubt that they have any left in stock, but you may be able to find a set on e-Bay.
If you want to try contacting IHC their offices are in Philadelphia, PA. Their web site is http://www.ihc-hobby.com and their phone number is (215) 426-2873.
Great!! Thank you to everyone who has provided info very Much! I have really been wanting to do specific scenes and such but haven’t been able to. Looking forward to finally being able to get what I need.
It sounds like you are not on the HO scale section. I see a flat car with three canon, Bobber caboose, box car, hospital car, troop car, 4-4-0 loco, all decorated for the CSA. There are two smooth bore cannon.
In this section, Toys & hobbies, Model RR Trains, HO Scale
The below section has an Airfix HO/OO scale civil war artillery set.
Model Power makes both passenger and freight cars that would be suitable. Go to ModelPower.com, click on Mantua Classics, and then choose either Wooden vintage freight cars, or wooden passenger cars.
I can’t find a web site for them, but Jordan Minatures makes several horse-drawn carts and wagons. They are kits that take a bit of patience to assemble, but they come out quite nicely. You can find them at Walthers or other on-line places.