Came across this new German / Japanese trolly Kato is putting out soon: http://www.katousa.com/N/JSE/hiroden.html & seems like a very cool...
Here's my almost-midnight-on-Labor Day Weekend salute: I call it "Still Life with Turnout" [IMG] No matter how chaotic or mess yr life...
Thanks for the inside scoop! Just ordered a copy & it's on the way! I look forward to reading your methods & insights. While I'm here, I might...
Anybody model an operating scale track? By "operating" I mean it diverts the cars onto the scale track while the non-weighing cars stay on the...
"Spaghetti Western" "4x8 Full of Dollars" "Once Upon A Time 'N' The West" "The GB&U"
Just found this thread, here on this site, of all places! http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?t=90914 Wondering if advances in...
Not sure if this was already discussed here, but Atlas says they're reissuing their 2-truck shay. http://www.atlasrr.com/nloco/nshay2.htm Yeay!...
There's a LL saddle tanker at my LHS for $25, still in the blue box (& still with rapido couplers). Thanks to this fab thread, I'm thinking about...
Groovy scene! Where'd you get that 2-6-2? It looks great!
Was browsing the Seattle city archives & found this nifty lift. Here's the bottom. & here's the top. Might not replace a helix, but could...
Very fab shots this week! Setting the bar high! I'm at the other end: just completed laying a wee bit more of track down to the end of the first...
Next big section of track laid! Built a fixture of two turnouts & a crossing: [IMG] then a wye & siding almost back to where I started: [IMG]...
If I do go with toggled blocks where I have the red rectangles (with an idea to move towards circuit breakers as the $ come rolling in), is it...
New to DCC & currently I'm building the layout below. Been thinking more about the fact that, unlike DC, DCC is sending a signal constantly to the...
Like I said last post, the closer/forward/lower/to the right turnout had frog issues (not sharp enough / extended enough so there was too large a...
The good, the bad & (mostly) the ugly. Carved out the space for the throw mounts: [IMG] The left side is ragged & ugly because I had ripped up...
IT'S ALIVE!!! After some issues with gaps (or lack of) in the pcboard ties of my facing turnouts, it's all resolved & trains are running!...
Got it! The gap right where Gats was pointed wasn't clean enough. I cut a good groove in each, & the thing worked! Yeay! We have a section of...
I cut the point rails to isolate the frog, but it seems there's still a short somewhere. Here's the setup: [IMG] The Red & White are the feeders...
I think my frog is touching / connected to the point rails. I made them pretty snug, & dropped some solder in underneath the frog to secure it...
