It's A Small World After All: Marx Paint-A-Village and More Marx HO Scale Buildings - Marx HO Railroad Station - Black HP

I thought this was going to be the last Marx HO scale building to post, but I found some photos of another that needs to be included, so I guess we'll have one more building after this. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

3" (7.62cm) W x 2" (5.08cm) D x 1.625" (4.12cm) H

TRAIN TIME: Mettoy No. 5617 Joytown Station

Here's an absolutely delightful station from Mettoy, the No. 5617 Joytown Station. Measuring 13" (33.02cm) W x 2 1/2" (6.35cm) D x 3 3/4" (9.52cm) H this isn't on my layout but it can swapped out with the current station at any time. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

TRAIN TIME: Kraus-Fandor Railroad Station and a Quick COVID Update

Well, I went back to work this Monday but that damn COVID still has me by the cajones! I have a small but fairly persistent cough, a temerature that won't stabilize, some gastro-intestinal issue, and worst of all: fatigue. It seems I can't get up and do much at all without tiring easily. DAMN! Today I'm off of work for a different reason - sprained my ankle! LOL When it rains it pours!

So what the hell, I might as well start in again posting. This past week I was posting a lot of albums into one of my fb groups and along the way found out that I had a ton of photos I took but never edited! WTF? Really! Some of them were re-takes of toy photos taken years back and then I decided to do updates aretook a lot of photos. That works for me. For no other reason than it came to mind first, let's start with this nifty Kraus-Fandor Pre-war tin-litho station. Kraus-Fandor was a German company but this station was made for export as it clearly says "STATION" on the front vs. "BAHNHOFF". I never got around to taking down the dimension for this and right now the station is in a hard to access location out in The Cave. In any case - Enjoy! Opa Fritz

TRAIN TIME: A Yank Does Hornby Pt 6 - Hornby O Gauge M Series Station Halt

As I started getting more and more into the British O-gauge clockwork scene it was apparent there was going to be another learning curve. In regards to how we name things here Stateside vs. what they're called over in the UK I kept seeing 'Station Halt' or 'Railway Request Stops' in reference to railroad stations and after making a quick trip to Wikipedia these are essentially what we would call Flagstop Stations. Trains do not make scheduled stops here unless they're 'flagged' by one means or another. Hornby, Meccano, Wells-Brimtoy all made nice stations of varying size and quality with some being quite substantial, however my goal was to keep things relatively small for my upcoming project and stations like what I'm posting today fit the bill nicely.  The station measures 9 3/4" (24.76cm) W x 2 1/2" (6.35cm) D x 3" (7.62cm) H. Enjoy! Opa Fritz and Oma Bettina