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What's in your toolkit?

Another add-to post to keep things fresh here. What do you keep in your tooll kit for modelling? I'm sure everyone have the essential but perhaps a few of us have a few tricks in our toolbox for modelling. My other post summed it up for the glue depa...

I got the surprise of my life tonight!

To all, My son made it home on leave from Cuba tonight before the big hurricane hit. It took him several trys for a new flight but he arrived here (by surprise) and will be here for 2 whole weeks! Dot

Gene's new layout

The rudiments are here but much work needs to be done! The Mine will definatly be different but you can see the switches, Mountain and bridges.

Train Bibliograhy: Our Group Library

This is Our Group's Library. Please post the names of any Books, Videos or Webpages on Trains or Model Railroading, that you would like to recommend to the Group. If you could include some information, such as author, publisher, availability, and a b...

Greetings from Winnipeg

hey there folks. Good to see that this group hasn't disbanded. I finally have internet. I am more or less moved in our house and went to work long enuf to clear in and take leave. Holy crap home ownership and TLC is a lotta work. I havn't stopped sin...

Virtual Modeling; The Ultimate Arm Chair RR

Have any of you seen the computer softwear available for virtual model railroading? The August and September issues of Railroad Model Craftsman have the first two articles in a series about this type of program. I call it the ultimate arm chair model...

Design your own structures

I picked up on this site from another board. It looks interesting for the stuctures that they now have with the ability to add or delete different features. I ran the station through the procedure and it came out 35.85 plus 8.75 for N scale. A little...

Making Water

I'm going to mirror Dave's discussion here as it is a good question. There are many ways to do it and there has been a lot printed on it too. I do suggest a little research and experimentation on your part to see with which method you are most comfor...

How fast is your train running? Do you know?

I ran across an interesting article yesterday in an old magazine of mine about how to make a "Speed Trap" for your trains to determine the scale speed. I can't believe how simple it is. The formula I'll give you in a minute looks weird, but it someho...

Brass vs Nickel Silver Track

I recently won a bunch of used HO track switches which are supposed to be nickel silver. I have been soaking them in water for a week to soften up the old ballast and paint; so far, slow progress with the ballast but much of the paint on the track is...