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Bachmann Ez DCC

I just went to a train show here where Bachmann had set up an area running their HO scale ez command system. While I know it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the more engineer specific dcc systems. It operated easily didn't need to have a s...

High priced collectabe cars or are they??

To all; I see today that one of the regular sellers on the bay has a Box Car up for Grabs at $1200.00 USD. The car he has is a MTL 40 Foot "New York,New Haven and Hartford" and says it was first put out in 1972. My little bit of investigation shows t...

Fun question time

Time for a less technical ,more fun question....or two. A) What is your favorite RR Car? B) What is your least favorable RR car? C) What is your Favorite Loco? D) What is your least favorable Loco? Have fun :S Dave

Searching... RR photos or information NJ Zinc

Hello Group, I added this to a thread, but thought better to start a new one. We are searching for any rr photos of NJ Zinc from Ogdensburg, NJ or Palmerton, PA if anyone has any. We want include some of this in our layout and have only found a few p...

Resin structure painting

I just received a resin structure of Dixie's Diner. I used an exacto knife to cut some of the flashing away but I need to know if there is any special preparation that should be done before someone begins to paint it? Gene

Tell Us Your Date Of Birth-Year Optional!

I was born in Rochester, PA, on 3-18-65. CJ]:)

Warped kits

I was wondering some of the methods this group uses when the parts of the kit are warped. I have tried putting them between heavy books (but that takes too long!) and gently bending them but sometimes it seems like more persuasion is needed. Any sugg...

High speed water pans

Anyone ever see the high speed water pans used on the 1:1 RRs? Has anyone ever tried to model this water pick-up system? I grew up with the NYC water pans not too far from my house. I always wondered how the train just didn't come to a dead stop with...

Union Pacifc Stinks...or even Worse

Have you seen the April edition of Model Railroader? UP has filed suit against MTH for not signing up with their licensing requirements. And no, it is not their April's fools article. Now, I really don't know much about MTH nor have any of their prod...

Terminal joiner question +

I have a number of terminal joiners ready to put into my layout (eventually) and the thought came to me that I could stagger each terminal joiner. In other words put a terminal joiner on one end of an atlas snap track and on the opposite side put a r...

MT new collector series.

MT has another new series of box cars: Canadian Privinces and Territories. 13 in all will begin in June supposedly with British Columbia. I suppose they will eventually have a caboose and maybe an engine too. Update: Spoke to Joe at MT R&D yesterday ...

Small trains

check out this site. then check out the price of this tiny train!! http://www.tiny-trains.com/ Gene

Athearn N Steam Engine

Has anyone seen the new Athearn N scale 2-8-0 up "close and personal"? The ads say "...crisp detail..." but when looking at the out of focus; bad sales pitch in my opinion; full page ad for this engine, I see a very sparsely and not very well defined...

Black and Gold!

One for the thumb baby! GO STEELERS!!! CJ

Kit building

Most every structure on my layout has been made with plastic of some sort.(except for a scratch built wooden fire tower) I now have won a lazer cut kit and was wondering if it will go together like the plastic buildings or what problems will I run in...