News

We received a shipment of Oriental Limited 14 section Tourist Sleeper kits July 18. If you missed out before get one now!

Thanks to a lot of work by Bill Sornsin and some by Mac, we now have the Goats all on line and offered in a logical way. Goats 1-125, including all predecessor documents, and a few other publications, are offered FREE to all. There is both club news and prototype and modeling information in this material, but you have to pan for the gold. Goats 126 to the Current Issue, are available for purchase worldwide as electronic files for a public price of $2 delivered to your computer. These are Goats ONLY. The feature articles in each issue are listed...

Check out our new Republic, Washington depot in HO scale. This small (24x36 foot) depot takes only 5 inches of track length and is 4 3/4 deep, including platform. An N scale version is on the way. It should be here by the end of September. Thanks to interchangeable front wall panels, you can build Republic as it really was from the early 1960s to the end of its life, with one end as a speeder shed, or you can build it as a small passenger depot. Republic will replace Berne (24x24 foot) in the small depot spot in our...

We are now offering Electronic Reference Sheets. This is the culmination of a multi-year process that began long before I became part of the store. As part of this transition, we have reduced Reference Sheet prices by 20% below member prices, and members may take another 10% off the reduced prices. Now you can order exactly the Reference Sheets you want, without having to take and pay for things you may not want. In addition to ordering individual Reference Sheet (s), we have created bundles by subject. The major work of organizing our sheets by subject was done by Mike...

As of June 1, Jackson Street Roundhouse in St. Paul, from which our hard copy Goats, Reference Sheets and Calendars are shipped, is open without restriction. Burien, Washington, from which all merchandise except apparel is shipped, is on a twice per month cycle. Plan on one round mid-month and one at the end of the month. Apparel is drop shipped from California and they are operating normally. Thank you for your patience. Mac