I'm trying to understand the trackwork at the bottom of this photo. It looks like a switch (turnout). The reddish rail seems to change from being...
Put castors on one end and a handle on the other. Then just pick it up like a wheel barrow. The legs without wheels will stop it from rolling around.
Lookin Good! What's the radius on the helix? It looks a little tight to me.
I've seen 9104 and 9106 a fair bit on the Galt Sub, along with a mess of repainted GPs, the new Genset 2101. My restaurant is located 150' South...
I have had locos running on the track. Layout is okay, just the alignment in and out of the switches needs to be worked on. Next step is gluing...
Luan is a 1/8" mahogany plywood. Back in the days of working in theaters, we loved the stuff for building set flats as it was smooth, light, cheap...
To be honest, I would love to start with all new "stuff". At least it would all be the same size and I wouldn`t have to spend hours with the...
Thanks for all the alignment tips so far! I was thinking I should put in short straight transition pieces. BarstowRick: Yes we are talking HO....
One thing to remember about the Atlas switch machines, they don't want a continuous current. The Atlas slide switch is a momentary switch designed...
I'm not sure if this the right area to post this but I'll give it a whirl. I am in the middle of building my layout. I generally have track...
I grew up 2 minutes from the CP's Lambton Sub and 10 minutes from Lambton Yard. I used to go watch the trains for fun. Further south, I have the...
As a remote for my Pentax ist-DL, I converted a Kodak slide projector remote ( you know the one with forward, reverse and focus buttons on a...
Another vote for xtrckcad. I use it on both Linux machines and Windoze.
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The most prototypical way to turn the loco around is dependant on the railroad, how much money they had and how much land they could use. A...
As a complete novice, my thoughts might not mean much but... The yard seems awful large for someone who wants to run trains without too much...
Neat ideas. I'll play around with them. Thanks!
Thanks. Scenery will be pretty sparse as I am in it for the Switchin'. Just enough to make it look meaningfull.
Ok. I may be able to talk the real Estate Manager into more space so I have scaled up my previous layout. I know the stretch to the upper left is...
