The Home Machinist!

All, I have an older RR Supply SD35 with an 8 HP Kohler power plant. The power plant has a remote oil filter and cooler on the system. I am in need to do an oil change on the locomotive and I would like to replace the filter as well. Does anyone know where to get a replacement filter? Being an Ex-pi...

Nik3V, I have the identical loco with a different road name. As Pontiac Guy stated, it appears to be a railroad supply and mine is an absolute joy to run. I picked mine up from a guy who was liquidating a collection and it also had zero hours on it. Great puller and certainly easy to operate. Get it...

Rail has been sold!

Mike,

The locomotive looks and sounds awesome! Thanks for sharing and Happy Holidays....
Doug

Price Reduced to $500....

I have for sale an oval of track set up for 3/4 " (3-1/2 gauge) and about an additional 1000 feet if used rail. I picked the rail up many years ago where it was on the ground as a 1" scale (4-3/4 gauge) layout. The owners had removed it so some of the ends were cut near the joint bars I ma...

All,
I was in the shop cleaning up some rolling stock I purchased last year (work keeps getting in my way!) and came across these tucked under the seat. Can anyone tell me what they are? I placed the brake hose in the picture for a size reference.

Thanks,
Doug

Thanks for the lead! I will give them a call tomorrow.

Doug

Does anyone know if Backyard Rails is still around or if someone took over their products. I have an early 90's 1.5 scale F7 body and I am looking for a replacement fan vent for the top of the fiberglass body. If they are not, does anyone have suggestions of another source? Two of them are removable...

Thanks for the info Joe! So far between my house, shop and boat, I have seven involved in the recall.

Doug

NEW Update.... Thanks to Dick Morris and some handy computer work, I received a call from an extremely excited Terry Babic who is the builder of the F7. Terry and Wife Kathy were extremely glad I reached out to them and even more excited to hear that the locomotive is still around. I managed to get ...

UPDATE: I had the opportunity to take the locomotive to the track today for a quick trial. After unloading the loco and riding car, I fired up the single cylinder Kohler engine and let her warm up for a couple of minutes. I switched the mode control from start to operated and switched into the forwa...