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Best way to clean wheels

I am wondering what is the best way to clean freight and passenger car wheels. Loco's can use power to clean their wheels in a variety of ways. After many times of running my passenger and freight cars I have seen a build up of black film on many of ...

Precision Craft

I just received a shrink wrapped brochure from Precision Craft. There steamers look to be (especially in HO and their brass stuff) extremely well detailed. On their website they state that the N scale steamers where to come out in the later part of 0...

New Products News

Just a heads up guys on some new products: Precision Craft Models has announced a summer release of their first N-Scale diesel engines with sound that will operate in either DC or DCC. This incorporates the QSI sound system that I have in my On30 eng...

Helpful Links

Do you want to check someones negative and neutral feedback real quick? Use this site; http://www.toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs CJ]:)

Some artwork for your boxcars

Thought you might like these amazing illusions - happy painting. http://www.jibjab.com/JokeBox/JokeBox.aspx?Id=91744&JokeId=34330 Gene

new guy to this group. question about motors

Does anyone know where I can get lima "boogies" (I think that's what there are called)? I have a couple loco and they have broke parts and was thinking about combining to repair. Better to repair or to trash? Thanks! Richard richwyre

MT conversions

I'm looking for some practical experience to help me begin my quest to convert many of my favorite cars from Rapido to MTs. I'm thinking it might be easier and better to just "swap out" the whole truck, rather than engage in hand-to-hand combat with ...

Recipie Sharing

Don Pedro's Baked Mexican Salsa Chicken Boneless, skinless chicken breasts (one per person) crushed cornflakes chunky salsa Pam cooking spray Shredded Monterey Jack cheese Small portion of cooked linguini Spray Pam on the chicken and roll each breast...

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Model Train Shows

FYI Just found this on-line last night and thought I would mention it here. http://www.allentowntrainmeet.com/ This train group puts on a rather large train show 2 times a year and opens it to the public. Ed & I are hoping to go on Saturday the 26th,...

New structures

I just ordered this water tower for the layout. It is unusual and I believe it will add interest to my layout. It should work well even though it is HO. I can always lower the stands it is on. After all the steamer needs this. http://www.walthers.com...

MOW Loco's

I a currently looking for a loco or two to pull my track cleaning aztec car around the various tracks to clean them when I don't want to do it by hand. I am looking/ bidding on an Atlas VO 1000 and thinking about also the LifeLike SW series maybe 120...

Where are we going?

When I started this group a few miles ago, we were a small yet comfortable group of friends who were sick and tired of the crud that was going on in the other group at that time. We had a mission I thought to stick together and learn from each other ...

Turnout numbers

My questions are: How does a turn out number relate to the turnout? Is it an expression of the radius of the turnout? And is there a single place that I can find all the numbered turnouts and their application? Gene

Railfans check this out

For you folks that aren't in a railfanning area like me where I can shoot videos and send them to pete, check this out. Found this site thru a link sent to me about vettes. I started searching thru it and it is great. Found lots of train vids. diesel...