Extra Board
Welcome to Extra Board! This section is updated periodically with short features contributed by our readers, as well as some recent favorites straight from the pages of the Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette. Check back as we continue to add new articles!
Scratchbuilt On30 Water Car
This scratchbuilt O scale 20-foot flatcar holds a wooden water tank car complete with a steam driven water pump.
Locomotives of the White Pass & Yukon Route, Part 4: The Twins
White Pass & Yukon ordered a pair of brand new engines from Baldwin Locomotive Works in December 1898 based on the Vauclain compound design.
Buffalo Creek & Gauley’s Motor A Mack Railbus in S Scale
In 1941, the BC&G acquired a 1921-built Mack Model AC railbus. The chassis was built by Mack, the truck people, and the body was built by Brill.
A Narrow Gauge 1:20.3 Scale Outside Frame 0-6-0
Number 12 was one of four 0-6-0 switch engines owned by the Oahu Railway, modeled using a 1:20.3 scale Bachmann outside frame as the base.
Locomotives of the White Pass & Yukon Route, Part 1: Alaskaʼs First Locomotives
The first locomotives to arrive in the Alaska Territory were built in 1881 by the Brooks Locomotive Works for the Utah & Northern Railway, before coming to the White Pass & Yukon.
Hobo Haven: A Shelter in Place Project
A run-down wooden boxcar becomes a haven for the down and out. Chuck Lind describes how he scratchbuilt this unusual model in O scale.
The West Side Lumber Co. in Sn3: Part 1
My primary goal was to construct a lay-out that would capture the “flavor” of the prototype West Side Lumber Co., but not be another “boring logging layout.”
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 537: A 1:20.3 Scale Three-Foot Gauge 2-8-0
Burlington 2-8-0 537 had outside frames with brake rods exposed under the driver counter-weights, a long smoke box, Burlington-style cuckoo clock headlight, and a bear trap spark arrester.
Building a White Pass & Yukon Railroad Pipe Flatcar in HOn3
In anticipation of hauling materials for the potential construction of a major pipeline originating from Alaska’s northern oil fields, the White Pass & Yukon Railroad rebuilt a flatcar to accommodate enormous 80-foot-long sections of 56-inch diameter pipe.
Colorado & Southern Business Car B-3 in On30
After purchasing a set of exquisite custom-made castings some years ago, I finally decided the time had come to build Colorado & Southern Business Car B-3.
