One of the fun parts of buying and selling old model trains is that I get to find forgotten and overlooked companies which produced cars with custom paint jobs. There are of course now-defunct companies who made whole kits (train clubs and historical societies also sometimes do this), but there were also a fair number…

When I was at a train show in Suffolk last weekend, I picked up an N scale Davenport 0-6-0 diesel switcher engine for $10. It was made by Atlas, and once it was warmed up it ran rather nicely at around 15% power. I often buy cheap locomotives at train shows as a gamble that…