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Veterans Day

Thanks to all our Veterans and their families.

Sparta Train Station (trial storyboard!)

here is a picture of a train station a few miles from my house in its heyday! this is what it looks like today. It is going up for auction soon and has millions of dollars of back taxes for the new owner to assume! No wonder it hasn't been sold. It h...

Power Pack Transformers - Need some help

First off, I will admit that electrical engineering is not this civil engineer's area of expertise. I thought that N power packs were for N scale, HO packs for HO layouts, you get the idea. Now I have test run my On30 purchases with both a N pack and...

Veteran's Day Contest

Here it is guys. The Vereran's Day Contest. Rememberance Day in Canada. Put on your thinking caps. This contest ends at midnight official ebay time on November 11, 2007. The rules are simple. Answer all 10 questions correctly and win the prize which ...

The Q-tip contest

Here we go again guys. New contest. The prize is an N scale starter trestle kit in wood. As you can see in the pictures in Mskimmers album, the trestle bents are already built for you. This is an introduction to craftsman building and will give you a...

Fun with Mergers

I know we have all seen the UPS and Federal Express merger called: FEDUP Here are some others for you: Polygram Records, Warner Bros. and Zesta Crackers: Poly, Warner, Cracker 3M will merge with Goodyear: MMMGood Zippo, Audi Motors, Mountain Dew and ...

train yards

Every diagram I see of train yards including the new Walters catalogue I just got in the mail shows diagarams of yards and the tracks that come off the main track to make the yards seem very sharp and not able for a train consist to make the turnout....

Gene's new yard

Here are at least two photos of what I am thinking of adding to my layout.

Train Trips

Here is a place for trips on trains. If you are in upstate NY or interested in themed train travel in the area here is a link. http://www.adirondackrr.com/index.php There are many different train excursions from wine tasting to Polar Express with San...

Summer Doldrums Contest

Simple contest for the summer months. In Kim's Place album there is a picture of a tool. This is a two part question. 1. What is its proper name? 2. What is it used for? The prize is a rather expensive Bar Mills Models laser kit for Mooneys Plumbing....

Southern hogshead car

Kevin is looking for a Southern RR hogshead car, new secondhand or in kit, does anyone know where he may be able to find one or more, any help would be most appreciated. Barry.....the helper (I hope)

Back to the basement

I have decided it is time to devote more time to the hobby again. I'm getting sick of mowing the lawn and all the other outside chores. I really must finish that hotel....... Received an email from BLI today that my repaired C-16 is on its way back t...

E. L. Moore

My favorite author... I have a scrapbook made up of Xeroxed articles, trackside photos and actual photos he took and signed... it's about 5" thick! I also have in it rare unpublished articles of his. When MR did a tribute article on him after his dea...

A Day on the Green

A couple of photos of the New South Wales railways flagship 3801 in the bush

Photo enlargements

I just found out that if you double click on a thumbnail picture and then double click again on the picture that shows up you can get a larger picture than just the original. Go to the cattle ano album and click on the Mikado steamer then double clic...