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Thank you for watching, William, and for the nice compliments.

If you mean the Decoders installed, no. The NMRA, in its Standards and Recommended Practices, has set forth that any Decoder should operate all of the normal functions using any DCC System. Now some decoders offer more advanced feathers, and some Systems make programing and using those features easier. But for your ordinary running of a locomotive any Control System should work with any Decoder. Here's more info if interested. www.nmra.org/index-nmra-standards-and-recommended-practices

@CassidysWorkshop thank You!!

Yeah, they make neat tools.

That's great, Rick. I hope you dig it as much as I do.

@@jcluttrell It is the Fanttik E1 3.7v Max Electric Screwdriver.

@CassidysWorkshop thanks!

@@collectioneur Yes they were. And in fact, they still are. A friend of mine was just gifted one by a friend of his for Christmas. He's looking forward to building it, even though he doesn't have room on his layout for another one. Thanks for watching.

Thank you, I appreciate it. Yes, I felt the same as I was finding out about Mr. Moore. So many of the kits I grew up with came from his designs.

@@tommcg5930 Do you still have it? I have a question about that one. Thanks for watching.

@@CassidysWorkshop it has been gone since the 70s. Many many years ago. I remember the little barrels that came with the kit.

@@tommcg5930 Hard to be a brewery without barrels. 😄

Thank you so much, I appreciate it. I enjoy showing kits like these, they're fun to build.

Yes, I've found it to be an interesting journey, and don't know where it will lead. Thanks for watching.

Yeah, it was hard to tell with all the pieces loose in the box. Now I'm hungry for a snack. 😄 Thanks for watching.

Thanks, that supports what I've read of Pola doing the casting for AHM and others. It makes more sense than the molds being passed around from company to company. I knew that Faller acquired Pola's N & HO kits, I wonder if they still have the molds. Thanks for watching.

@@clearlycaribbeanreb2895 Thanks for watching. I know the feeling, I always wanted the Revell Switch Tower. Did you ever get it?

@@CassidysWorkshop No, I never did. As I aged, my interested shifting to mid-80’s Chessie System WV mine shifters in HO Scale. Not a lot of room for a brewery! Maybe a moonshine still!

@@clearlycaribbeanreb2895 😄 Sounds like a good switch. 👍

Cool, neat idea. Do you remember if your version had molded-in bracing for the legs of the wooden deck? I'm trying to find which one had that. Thanks for watching.

@@CassidysWorkshop - I don't recall my brewery model having the diagonal truss bracing on the platform legs. I still have it somewhere, so I'll look for it and verify if it has bracing.

@@Petemonster62 Thanks, it's great that you still have it.👍

Thanks. Yeah, I've done some old ones, both plastic and craftsman kits, where you had to almost figure out how to put it together yourself. And that's OK, if you have a photo or drawing showing what both sides should look like. Heck, some old wood kits all you get is a photo. Which can be enough depending on the kit.

Yep, thanks Gary.

Thank you, Jim. Art was right, these are great for kitbashing. I think I read in Mr. Lowe's book that Pola was involved in the design or creation of the first kits put out by AHM. And likely the ones for Tyco and Model Power. But I have seen a couple small differences in them, I wonder how those come about. The more I read about these the more questions I have.

It seems the name POLA was often molded on the building's base of many AHM structures.

@@Petemonster62 And I've seen Tyco molded into the underside of the roof on the Tyco version. It seems they could do minor changes like that, perhaps depending on the contractual specifications of producing it.

Thank you, that's some of the fun of building models is thinking what they might be in real life.

@@CassidysWorkshop Thank you very much for responding to my comment, Much appreciated.

@@michaelquinones-lx6ks Thanks for watching. 👍

Thank you. I see you did a kitbash of one of the AHM kits. I watched the first episode, I'll sub and go watch the rest. I respect seeing one of these old kits brought into the 21st Century.

@@CassidysWorkshop Thanks, I started out with the idea of kitbashing a Tony Koester model then went a different direction. I love these old kits, it's what i had when i was a kid.

@@hoscalemodeltrains1221 Same here, except I remember the old Revell kits more. I think I did a bunch of them. I spend most of my time building craftsman and lasercut kits, but these old plastic ones can be fun.

Thanks, Richard. I wish I had read more of his articles back then, but I'm catching up as I can.

Mr. Lowe, I'm so glad you said it was OK to use parts of your blog, and that you found my video. I wish I could have given more information about Mr. Moore, but I hope that those interested will visit your blog for more about a legend of our hobby. Thank you for your research and for sharing it. 👍

No, they weren't stealing them. I don't know all the arrangements yet, I'm still reading some of the entries that James Lowe made, and his book has some of the communication between E.L. Moore, the magazine editors, and the manufacturers. And yes, you're right, these are all great for kitbashing. Thanks for watching.

No, those other manufacturers weren't stealing the designs. AHM manufactured them first, but as time went on the tooling was sold to other to other companies. Over the years some of the kits changed hands several times.

@@30Squares Pola in Germany were responsible for making many/most of the plastic kits for AHM and later Model Power and Tyco, as well as for the UK Playcraft. The cardboard boxes (and instruction sheets) appear to have been the responsibility of the distributing companies using their own marketing sources and individual styles. I can imagine crates of sprues crossing the pond and then being matched into kits then put into the boxes in the US.

@@warminghurst Thank you for the clarification. In my eBook I discussed the events that lead to certain E L Moore projects becoming plastic kits, but had no information on the business aspects of the production of those kits. Your information helps to put the whole story together.

@@30Squares Indeed, I find it fascinating how different companies would be having the same kits made for them, possibly with some minor changes for their run. I saw a kit of the brewery from Tyco with their name molded in the underside of the roof. And I see their kit has the supports molded into the platform legs, where it looks like the other manufacturers (?) just have straight legs.

Thanks, Larry.

Thanks, Gary. I appreciate it.

Thank you, Roger. You're right, I think we've been influenced by him more than we know. I also want to do more research on the old Revell kits, I had built a number of them back in the 60s.

Thanks, Jeff. I'll have to look into their kit as well.

@@BrianRochon 😆 Thanks, Brian. We'll see.

@@Zipidy2Da Thank you. I'm always happy when someone picks up a tip or two from something I've done. I didn't have any problem with warping of the building or any of the platform, constructing the building ahead of time helps with that. But I did have the rafters warp a fair bit when I stained them, and I then had to straighten them as I was glueing them in place.

Thanks for watching. The CSX is an Atlas and the Amtrak is Kato. We had Digitrax then, but have switched to NCE since then. I have a more recent video of building the layout from start to finish. ua-cam.com/video/SnmMItcPwHw/v-deo.html

@ Thank you! Atlas N scale is decent, and you prefer NCE?

@@monkshillpottery I've had Digitrax on my home layout for decades. But the NCE is easier to use in my opinion. One thing that can make a difference is if you have friends using one system, going with that one makes troubleshooting easier, on the assumption your friends can help. Starting from scratch, I think I'd go NCE.

@ Thanks!

@ I’ve got a real problem- model railroad fever- after a 15 year hiatus. (Sold all my ho stuff). I was very good at modeling, weathering etc but the electronics baffles me. I may just save headaches, and money, and go dc.

Thank you for watching, Bob. I appreciate it.

Thanks. All it is is a piece I made for holding Tichy lamps with the bulbs in them flat for gluing on various supports, either theirs or ones I've made. I just drilled a couple holes in a piece of wood and glued on another piece to hold them up while gluing. I use it mostly for HO but it works for N as well. Thanks for watching.

Hi Robert. Thanks, I found these a couple years ago, here's a Short I made about them. I think you can still find them, I had to go to eBay. ua-cam.com/users/shortsxJ93VKZ0jDQ?si=DmejHbA0ETj1I0wZ

@ Thank you…no longer made…but found two wheels on eBay…I’ll make a holder if I purchase…thanks again…😎

Yeah I remember getting the wheels when I first saw them, and then it took me like a year or more to find the holder. Good luck.

Thank you, Darren.

Thanks so much, Chris. As Richard Wissbaum pointed out below, much of the industrial region was settled by European immigrants, so having some Euro flare wouldn't be all bad. But eliminating most of the fancy touches helped a lot in Americanizing it. PS, just subbed, I like what you're building there. 👍

@CassidysWorkshop Thank you.

Ha, thanks. Same to you.

Thanks, I appreciate it. Yep, you can find useful window glass in lots of places. I have a folder of different clear materials, mostly scraps and other salvaged items, plus some actual "window material" that I ended up with somehow. I usually use whatever's on top of the pile that fits. 😀

@@CassidysWorkshopDid I understand correctly that you use dry pigment powder, brush it into the mortar lines and then apply water? I would love to try this technique.

@@jimjohnston7688 That's right, it's one of a few techniques for putting mortar in bricks. Here's the video by Brett Wiley showing it better, the pigment-for-mortar part starts a bit after 8 minutes. ua-cam.com/video/JFnpvykISZs/v-deo.htmlsi=_uzcb_x0PQnTxLoS

Thanks, Todd. That's my hope is that something I picked up or thought of I can pass on.

Thank you, Dave.

Thanks, Paul. Have you been there, nice building they have.

@@CassidysWorkshop Not yet. Met some of them at a show last year, but haven't made the trek from north-side to south-east side yet.

Thanks, I hope you get to build one someday.

Thank you, Dick. You're right, and you can see that in much of the architecture of the buildings in Eastern states. Thanks for the reminder.👍

@@garychestnut6380 Thank you so much, Gary.

Hi Marco. No, it's HO scale. Thanks for viewing.

Thanks, Todd. I'm getting back into adding little details to it, Its been neglected for too long.

@@jimjohnston7688 Thank you so much Jim. I appreciate the kind words.

Thanks, Gary.

I've got some news for you, I'll tell you later.

Thank you so much, Ryan.