A few months back I happened upon an N scale crane car as part of a mixed lot of old cars. Trying to find out whether I can use it with my HO narrow gauge collection sent me down a rabbit hole of prototype research which I’d like to share with you. The thing about…

Back in April 2025, when I had been back in the hobby for just a few months, I kitbashed an HO scale van into a railvan.   I took an HO scale minivan and mounted it on a cut down Kato 11-110 chassis. The idea was to make a railvan which had been converted from…