HO Scale

A sight common around any railroad are spike kegs.  These are typically sheet metal pails filled with railroad spikes, or track bolts.  Includes 4 unpainted styles of “new/full” kegs: 50# plastic buckets, 100# kegs and two styles...

Your classic 5-gallon bucket, used for everything and anything! Great for trucks, outside of shops, stack caps, etc.  Includes 16 unpainted buckets, 8 with lids, and 8 open. Pilot holes are included for wire handles if the modeler wishes to add...

Portable derails are lightweight, temporary derails used by MOW, shop crews, construction crews, etc., to create an inaccessible track condition while working.  These derails are small enough that one person can pick them up, and they clamp to the...

Based on the WCH model EB fabricated flipover derail, our derail kit is 100% to scale, and fully operational.  The kit includes one base, options for left or right derail.  We also included a double ended derail (prototypically, this double...

Wheel skates are a small device used for chocking freight cars at industries, and are also used in some switching yards to stop slow moving cars.  The wheel rides up onto the skate, and pushes it letting the friction slow and stop the car without...

Made by the Burlington Rerailer Company, these are a ramp style rerail frog.  From what we can tell, these appeared in the mid 1970’s.  Rerailers are used in pair’s – with a specific inside and an outside frog which do differ...

Smudge Pot style switch heaters are the most basic type of switch heater.  A small tank holds kerosene and a protected wick on the end is lit on fire.  Each switch typically would use 4-12 of these under each point rail and would last between...

Used by track crews since the beginning of railroads, the basic track jack has a multitude of uses, from lifting track and ties, lining rail, setting gauge and anything else the crew can think of.  They have both a lifting foot and an upper lifting...

Also known as Portec Anchors, are to help prevent rail creep from expanding and contracting, anchors are driven in place on the rail next to the ties.  While they will fit Micro Engineering rail, these are more for “track clutter” around...

Scale tie plates. Includes 32 single shoulder tie plates, and 32 double shoulder tie plates, without spike detail. These plates will fit on Micro Engineering Code 70 and Code 83 rail, or can be used as a lineside detail. Plates are ...

Scale tie plates. Includes 32 single shoulder tie plates, and 32 double shoulder tie plates, with spike detail. These plates will fit on Micro Engineering Code 70 and Code 83 rail, or can be used as a lineside detail. Plates are .008″...

What every train needs to stop! This is a generic locomotive/freight car brake shoe.  Common all over – shops, ditches, freight car end cages, the list is endless.  Our set includes 20 “new” and 20 “used” brake...

Also know as a bin block. These are cast concrete 2’x2’x6′ interlocking blocks.  Used to make retaining walls, product bins, counterweights, driveways, all sorts of uses.    12 per package.   * Please contact...

A must for every layout! The first accurate, 100% scale switch brooms in HO scale.  Includes 6 brooms with .012″ wire for the handles.

Bethlehem Steel 1222 “Parallel Throw” Switch Stand. A very common industrial switch stand used in close clearance locations where a regular stand would not fit.  Sometimes mounted in-between the switch points. Includes 6 non-working...

Very basic “flopover” switch stand, used in industrial areas. Includes 8 non-working stands.

Fairbanks-Morse model Z, 3HP hit and miss engine.  A very common rural engine from the 1920’s through the 1960’s.  These were used for all sorts of things, including driving pumps, washing machines, generators and anything else that...

Lincoln Idealarc 250 welder.  A common light duty welding machine from the 1970’s and still used today.   Includes two pieces of wire that can be used as welding leads.  3 per package.

8 volt locomotive batteries.  Can be used in a locomotive shop project, or added to a pallet (not included) for scenery around an engine house. Includes 8 unpainted batteries.

This is just the cylinder head from an EMD engine.  This style is common to the 567C, 645 and 710. Includes 12 cylinder heads.