The Model Railroad Resource

11/13/2025

From Rick Steele
LaBelle Woodworking Co.

RP

This is the status used next to your name by the Crew Management system on Union Pacifc when an employee is going to retire. It means “Retirement Pending”. Now it applies to me, again.

After having owned and operated LaBelle Woodworking since 2001, I have been in the model business longer than the original or subsequent owners, I have decided to call it a day. I will be closing the doors and turning out the lights on LaBelle after 25 years on June 1, 2026. I have posted this as a courtesy to you, my loyal and well received customers, so that there will be no future surprises.

If anyone is interested in getting into the Model Railroad business I am not adverse to selling LaBelle to someone who is interested in purchasing it. I will be entertaining serious offers for LaBelle and the all of the equipment used to make our kits. I would love to sell the business so that the names and products that we produce, such as LaBelle, Silver Streak, Mainline Models, Ye Olde Huff and Puff, OnTrack and Valley Car Shops don’t disappear from the modeling scene.

Please contact me at [email protected] for further information. If there is any further information about the future of LaBelle, I will keep you informed here on the website’s introductory page.

10/30/2025

The November/December 2025 issue of The O Scale Resource is now ready to read. Over 110 pages in this issue of Scale O Information. As always, free and easy to read or download!
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This issue is over 110 pages!

A Fleet for Operations 6: Steel, Tanks, and a Parting By Brian Scace

The Indianapolis O Scale Show By Dan Dawdy

The Strasburg O Scale Show By Dan Dawdy

The Story of Pitts Cut and Environs By George Paxon

Kit-bashing a Southern Pacific F-50 Flat Car By: Santiago Pineda

Passenger Car Building By David Schultz

Canadian Forest Product Converted Steam Locomotive to Internal Combustion (part 1) By William W. Davis

New Tracks and My Build

All this and more!

10/23/2025

We are finishing work on the next O Scale Resource Magazine due out near the end of October. It promises to be another great one!
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10/15/2025

Sad picture from our trip East, Belington, West Virginia

08/30/2025

The September/October 2025 issue of The O Scale Resource is now ready to read. Over 120 pages in this issue of Scale O Information. As always, free and easy to read or download!
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This issue is another big one, 137 pages! Starting with the beautiful modeling of Boyd Reyes. Next we check out the night scenes of a Quiet Night in Celestown July 1935.

Martin Brechbiel is back with a scratch build called Sethian’s and Sons.
Next is Building a Southern Railroad 36’ SU Boxcar (Part 3) by William W. Davis finishes out the build.

A Fleet for Operations 5: Lowering Some Transition Era Stuff by Brian Scace and finally some On30 narrow gauge action from William Longley-Cook and his Structures for the Cumbres and Cat Shed Railroad with bonus video. All this and more!

07/31/2025

Hey, we'll be this many years old next issue!!!

12 Years
144 Months
4,382 Days
105,189 Hours
6,311,424 Minutes
378,683,424 Seconds

We are beginning work on the next O Scale Resource Magazine due out near the end of August. It promises to be great one!
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06/28/2025

The July/August 2025 issue of The O Scale Resource is now ready to read. Over 120 pages in this issue of Scale O Information. As always, free and easy to read or download!
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2025 March O Scale Meet Notes
By Brad Kowal
A Fleet for Operations 4: The Elephant in the Room; Lowering Atlas
By Brian Scace
A Trip Through O Scale Modeling: Bob Anson’s Remembrances
By Glenn Guerra
The Model Railroad Club of Toronto
By David MacLean
Tell House
By William W. Davis
New Tracks 04/23/25 My Build
New Tracks 05/14/25 My Build
New Tracks Modeling
By Contributing Editor Jim Kellow MMR
What’s on your Workbench
By Robert Fredrickson
And More!

05/27/2025

We are beginning work on the next O Scale Resource Magazine due out near the end of June. It promises to be another big one!

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05/03/2025

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04/28/2025

The May/June 2025 issue of The O Scale Resource is now ready to read. Over 130 pages in this issue of Scale O Information As always, free and easy to read or download!
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March Meet

March Meet Contest and Display Models

A Fleet for Operations 3: Lowering Domestic Weaver By Brian Scace

Finishing a PRB Santa Fe Heavyweight Chair Car Part 2 By: Santiago Pineda

A Car Blocking Strategy for the Mountain Electric By George Paxon

Traction Action: Building a Substation Car for the CG&W By Martin Brechbiel

Backwoods Coal Dealer By Phil Camp

MODELING VEHICLES: Trucks By William W. Davis

What’s on your Workbench By Al Oslapas

New Tracks Modeling

New Tracks 02/26/25 My Build

New Tracks 03/26/25 My Build

And so much more!!!

04/14/2025

With the March Meet and all my allergies behind me, we are getting ready to publish the May/June issue of The O Scale Resource Magazine.
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As always free to read / download / print!

02/26/2025

The March/April 2025 issue of The O Scale Resource is now ready to read. 110 Pages of Scale O Information. As always, free and easy to read or download!
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March Meet 2025 what You Need To Know

News You Can Use - New Items of Interest

Cocoa Beach Prototype Rails 2025

A Fleet for Operations 2: Some Fixtures and an Easier Conversion
By Brian Scace

Finishing a PRB Santa Fe Heavyweight Chair Car Part 1
By: Santiago Pineda

Building a Southern Railroad 36’ SU Boxcar Part 2
By William W. Davis

Traction Action: Finishing a Brass Freight Trailer
By Martin Brechbiel

Super Detailing the All Nation Line NW2 Switcher Part 3
By Greg Viggiano

New Tracks Modeling
By Contributing Editor Jim Kellow MMR

New Tracks 12/21/24 My Build

New Tracks 1/22/25 My Build

Show Schedule

And so much more...