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Yahoo!!

I am wondering if anyone uses Yahoo as their email or homepage. I do and it has been extremely slow the last few days for me and am wondering if anyone has this same dilemma? Thanks, Dot PS My memory that I ordered came and I will try to install it t...

How high?

I am in the process of trying to find out the optimum height of the benchwork for a layout. I have gone to some club event/train shows and their benchwork is at around 5 feet off the floor with 5" of clear plexiglass separating people from the layout...

railroad name challenge

Here is a challenge for some of you younger guys and anybody else who wants to participate. I just sat down here and thought of 40 names of railroads that used to exist in the 1950's & 60's. Without any research or cheating of any kind see how many y...

Garden RR

One of the local hobby Stores (CVRR - can't plug them enough it seems) sponsored an open house of one of their customer's Garden RR on Sunday. (He's a neighbour of mine) I thought some of you may be interested in seeing some snapshots I took. He gave...

Kato track

I have a chance to buy a Kato unitrack starter kit and was wondering if this track is any different than Life Like Power-Loc or Backmann's EZ track? It looks like it's the same thing. Gene

A neat lttle video

I copied this off of the forums for Model Railroad Magazine I thought it was inspiring!! Gene www.davidbedard.com/060tsunami.wmv

The Bait Shop

I added a picture (as soon as the moderators approve it )to the Cattle Ano Corral album of the Model Tech bait shop in N scale. It still needs some finishing but I will let my wife finish it as she has the creative eys. Just thought I would post it a...

Pulling power of models vs. real engines

This one is probably for Mike to answer. I just had a thought that we were all trying to put extra weight in the Life-Like Mallets because they do not pull as well as the Rivarossi Mallets. Let me say this. The Riv are Y6b models and the LL are Y3 mo...

Union Pacific - Challengers & Big Boys

Hi group, Just wondered if anyone runs any O or HO scale UP Challengers or Big Boys? I don't really have the room for the O scale, but I certainly would like to have one. I'm just curious as to anyone's experience with either. There is a whole lot of...

Realistic water

I am in the process of using realistic water for a stream that eventually will lead into a good size lake. When I poured the first part of the stream everything looked level but the next day I noticed that most of the Realistic Water had migrated to ...

Scenery

I just tried to 'fix' the mine so that it looks like a mine in the hills not just on a bunch of foam and now I think it looks like a buchaus. That's Italian for just what you think it is. I think I will turn the mine into a waste treatment plant and ...

enjoyable parts of RR modelling

With some new members time for fun questions. hopefully it hasn't been covered.. a) What's your funnest part of RR modelling? b) What's the worst part of modelling? a) best- building industrial structures and customizing locos and rolling stock. b) w...

Kids and model trains

Are there any kids in your life who have been influenced by your trains? Although he is only 2 my grandson would come first. He loves to be able to sit there and pick out witch engine to run, he loves to see them crash too. I'll put on two old Bachma...

Ballasting your track

Here is a site with some good information. http://www.billsrailroad.net/bills-ballasting.html Like the gentleman says everybody has their own way of doing it, but he offers some good advice that may just twig your memory or be new info you can use.. ...

Gauge/Scale Information Chart

With all the confusion created in another thread, I thought I would make up a chart for comparison, if this format will let me do it. The figures given are based on Standard Gauge which is as we know 4'-8 1/2" between the rails. Gauge is the model di...