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Your top 5 best running locomotives...?

Hey gang! My name is Tom and I have been in the hobby for about 17 years now. I had a HO set when I was 11 that my brother built (he was into quite a lot of scales growing up). It was great to have the detail in HO. After high school my Dad bought a ...

Paper or Plastic: Air Brush, Can or Bottle ?

To broaden the discussion going on elsewhere, How about spilling your guts on your preference and/or experience with the different methods of applying paint to models and cars. I prefer spray cans for painting plastic kits. Having used them for so ma...

Building Structures

I just received and built an N Scale DPM Gold Jerry Riggs service station. It was a new shrink wrapped kit and after opening it found that many of the white metal items were missing! DPM says they will replace them but I questioned their quality cont...

LL FA1/FB1 performance

That thud you just heard was the good old Breeze fallin' off the wagon. I just bought(won?) a Life Like FA1/FB1 set for $22.57 brand new in the box. I have a couple questions. 1. Are these an "older" design? (see item # - 5912244448 for speecs) Both ...

A Christmas Tale

Christmas At The Garage; The old man sat in his gas station on a cold Christmas Eve. He hadn't been anywhere in years since his wife had passed away. It was just another day to him. He didn't hate Christmas, just couldn't find a reason to celebrate. ...

Dry Transfers

Every time I get a building kit that has dry transfers in it, there are never any instuctions on how to apply them. Decals we've covered quite a bit but never the transfers. Soooo just how do you apply the things??? Punk

BUD'S PROPANE TANKS

Made from Dentist's Amalgum Containers

Turnout Controls

One of the LHS has some electrical stuff. I am planning on making my switchboard (switches for the turn outs) with toggle switches with the track schematic overlayed on that and get rid of the slide switches that come with the Atlas turnouts. I will ...

Sound for your pike

If you have been wanting sound for various locations on your pike or a sound card that travels on your consist try this site on for size. Read all the various pages they have here especially the APPS page and listen to all the various sound boards yo...

Chuck's freight yard in Taff FL.

This yard is just So. of Orlando.

BUD'S NEW YARD

Red Train is Fire Fighting Unit

Books about N scale trees

I want to direct this question to our beloved, learned, leader Pete. There are as many articles and techniques of building trees for a layout as there are... well... trees in a forest. You have a lot of experience and I know you like to do your resea...

Fastest First or Last

In a double or triple header, which engine should be first? Powered "B" units do NOT go first.

Digital cameras and model RR photography.

Help! I am tired of waiting until I have a 12 , 24 or 36 frame roll of film finished to develop it just to get some pictures to post here. I have been considering a digital, but I find them hard to learn and very limiting in scope. Realize that in my...