My family is having an estate sale. This sale will include a portion of my father's train collection. This portion of the collection includes G, S, OO, and some HO. There will also be non train model kits. The sale will be Feb. 29th, Mar. 1st and 2nd. This will take place in Toms River, NJ. Here is a link to the company handling the sale: https://jkbtimelesstreasures.com/new-jersey-estate-and-moving-sales/ Scott
The Bachman Mini Planes collection caught my eyes. I had a small collection of them when I was a kid. They were by no means perfectly accurate. But, compared to die cast, I thought they were very convincing for their size. I still have the Fokker DVII on the left in the photo.
Sounds like a similar story to how I have a US 1 sign here at UMTRR HQ (although eBay was part of the chain)
HOn30, also called HOn 2 1/2, is HO Scale Narrow Gauge on N Scale track. HOn3 is HO Scale on true HO 3 foot gauge track. HOn30 was brought to national attention with two small layouts built by Dave Frary and Bob Hayden which were the subject of multi-part articles in Railroad Model Craftsman: the Elk River Line and Thatcher's Inlet. I was fascinated with both of these layouts and the backstories that Frary and Hayden created for them. AHM released its "Minitrains" series of HO Scale on N Gauge track before they started distributing N Scale. Here's an example eBay listing, since I'm way too tired at this writing to find something more elegant as an example... https://www.ebay.com/itm/126337837214
As George has described in his (post #14) message. We have referenced it as being HOn30 for a long time now. Few ever use "HOn2&1/2" term these days. Except that Kalmbach stubbornly usually refuses to catch up, being many decades behind. "30" is a reference to 30 inch gauge in the real world. Although N track is actually 31 point something. (There is always someone who will nitpick, nitpick.) We use it to simulate such as the world famous old Maine 2 Foot railroads. Others, such as myself, freelance and bring it forward toward more modern times. There is actually a good amount of HOn30 available out there. The old AHM line eventually evolved into a high quality production out of Germany named "MinitrainS". Plus other lines from Europe and Japan. We also have a lot of neat stuff, via Shapeways and 3d printing. The most famous of all names in HOn30 are probably Bob Hayden and Dave Frary. Look up "The Carrabassett & Dead River Railway". Versions of this empire date back to the 1970s. Many articles have been published in MR and RMC, etc. A few photos of my ongoing HOn30 this and that are here: https://train-orders.com/MRR/MRR.html
