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• PSC’s brass range is well known. Many of these items are also available in plastic. They’re now available from PSC’s new owners who also sell on eBay.
• Tichy make standard detail parts, NBWs, doors, windows and so on.
• JL Innovative ranges cover loads of detail parts.
Specific NG structure kits abound, and cover both railroad- owned structures as well as those that appeared in NG territory. Jay Cohen in Florida keeps all sorts of structure and detail kits mainly dealing with extractive industries; mine buildings, logging camp buildings and so on. Fine Scale Miniatures kits, no longer produced but still available, cover similar areas, as well as more standard industry and factory buildings. Banta Modelworks have all sorts of railway buildings and in particular have a whole series devoted to the RGS. Raggs to Riches also have a large number of Colorado buildings kits, and there are many, many more niche manufacturers.
you can derive plans. And, as I said earlier, we’re in HO scale, where there are literally thousands of kits available in all sorts of media, ready to house and feed the inhabitants of your little empire.
Photo: Blackstone Models C-19 #345 switches a small mine kit-bashed from a Campbell wooden kit. (Mick Moignard)
HOn3 modelling is fun, and easy. Have at it!
Reference Sources
The following are the reference sources I have found useful to modelling the Narrow Gauge and for sourcing HOn3 materials and equipment. It is by no means definitive and I am sure some of you will have your own preferred sources.
• Narrow Gauge & Shortline Gazette. The magazine for followers of US Narrow Gauge. http://ngslgazette.com/
• HOn3 Annual. Modelling articles on a wide variety of HOn3 subjects, by no means all Colorado. http://hon3annual.com/
• Mike Blazek Plans. Colorado and other NG Structure plans. http://blazeksplan.com/
• Steve Hatch’s RGS. A modellers view of the RGS, lots of other links: http://www.rgsrr.com/
• Friends of the East Broad Top (Company Store page has Plans and Drawings, plus links for modelling supplies): https://www.febt.org/
• Colorado Railroad Museum. https://coloradorailroadmuseum.org/ They know about Colorado Railroading from a historical perspective. As do the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club: https://coloradorailroadmuseum.org/
• Linda Tinker Books: UK bookseller with a wide collection of new and used US NG books. http://www.lindatinkerrailwaybooks.co.uk/
   Photo: Some HOn3 kits and supplies: A Raggs structure kit for the section house at Dolores, two plastic freight car kits from Grandt and PSC, a Tomalco wood and plastic craftsman gondola kit and a Con-Cor RTR Galloping Goose. (Mick Moignard)
You’ll find these advertised in the NGSL Gazette, and you’ll see them on sales tables at train shows. All I would say about buying second hand kits, whether they’re structures or rolling stock, is to check that they’re completely complete. It’s not uncommon to find a partly built kit, or one that is missing parts. If the kit was issued with the parts in plastic bags, best to check that these are still sealed. There is nothing more frustrating than buying a kit, only to find that it’s missing parts or is part assembled and not done very well.
Information for scratch-building or kit-bashing structures is not hard to come by. The more specialist magazines such as NG&SL Gazette regularly have plans for structures, and there are many suppliers of plans who advertise in these, or who can be found via some Google searching (other search engines are available). Books about your favourite railroad will also feature plans, or at least decent photos from which
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