Just to be clear, I have absolutely nothing against our wonderful state of Texas and hope to visit there, someday. :D In fact, Texas and the...
In OUR context, I believe this represents the REAL Lone Star: [ATTACH] :D Doug
Red is my favorite color for locomotives and sports cars. My 1989 Firebird Formula: [ATTACH] Well, not mine. exactly, but just like it except...
Trackwork is my favorite thing building a layout and one of my favorite things on the prototype. too. Doug
.015" is about the same as fifteen thousandths of an inch. :D Doug
Methinks Big Jake is advocating against soldering everything so the rail can't move. When MR constructed the NY&Q N scale layout in the 1968-69...
Thanks Jim and this actually reminds me of a shortcoming on the Rivarossi motor page, I should have addressed the different configurations of the...
I bet those rails would have stayed in place better if they had put some ties under them. :D Doug
I have soldered joints on layouts in the past but I didn't on this last one and it's about 10 years old and trains run fine. I just made sure the...
Gotta be pretty dang close! Doug
Where's Stanley and Ollie when you need them? :D Doug
Do they call them "rocks" over in Jolly Old England? :D Doug
Real ballast is typically about 2" in "diameter". Doug
The same motor was used in the MRC Berkshire and the Y6b and perhaps the big Y6b was a bit too much for that motor? The one in my Berkshire still...
You showing those cab cars reminds me, The GP15s must not be equipped for use with cab cars because when a GP15 is backing cars into the sheds,...
Yup. I believe it was in an old Model Railroader where they had an article about how to model them. Doug
Time was when I didn't think twice about soldering wires to the tabs on those old Mehanotehnika (Atlas, Life-Like, Model Power, etc) trucks. Now,...
The CNW made the structures for order boards, semaphores, etc. out of old rails. Doug
Scrapping those SD90s already? Sad. Doug
Wow! Fast is right and its great to see the Deltics going that fast! Dpug
