Posted by Cap't.Jack Scrymgeour
well folks i did something i never said i would do. took up 95% of my track. i had it all running; 12 isolated tracks, 22 turn outs all powered, and two isolated main lines.It was fun when i just had a few docksiders running about, but as i got more and more engines, trollys and trams. i found that ...
Posted by Andrew Kiely
Gentlemen: You may remember recently I related a story about how my carelessness cost me a nice locomotive. While cutting some track, my hand slipped inadvertantly and the moto-tool I was using made a nice cut into the side of my SF Warbonnet FP45. The shell was ruined. I was...
Posted by Darrin Godwin
I know that model manufacturing companies produce a lot of different locos,cabs,strctures,rolling stock, etc... In order to keep cost down they will pick a generic boxcar(for example) and paint many roadnames on it. Even if the RR had one close to it. For the most part that is OK, bec...
Posted by Trevor Marshall
In Episode 0014 of The Model Railway Show, we speak with Mary Miller about how to encourage more women to join, and enjoy, the hobby. We also talk with Pierre Oliver about why you might want to hire a professional builder for all those rolling stock kits that are tucked under the layout. The M...
Posted by David Lutkehaus
Okay, well, I made the plunge, I purchased the NCE Power Cab system along with two DCC locomotives. A Sante Fe SD45-2 and a 4-8-0 consolidated. So now, even though I don't have a layout, I have laid a programing track with a switch and a siding and I can operate a back and forth. I...
Posted by Darrin Godwin
I have used knifes for years and always practice safe cutting(I have had some close calls). I was using a utility knife, the kind with the screw in the side that holds the body together. The back of the blade kicked out of the handle cutting my thumb and index finger. Seven stitches in the thumb an...
Posted by Cap't.Jack Scrymgeour
had a good night down stairs in the train dungon, as much fun as a guy can have working with 3 link chain and buffer couplers, problems #1 how to link up wagons with out losing my eye sight, and on top of that how to hook chan couplers with exsiting horn hook, well, right off take a big magnet to yo...
Posted by Karl Rethwisch
Track and track details. Since track, on a model RR, is a model, may I offer a few hints and tricks I have used to replicate realistic lookin’ track ? Some of THE most pleasing structures to look at are railroad track and related equipment. The pleasing nature of track structure is primari...
Posted by Rick Phipps
When I first started into this hobby I was gung ho to get started. Of course, since it was to be in a shack that I had been using as a small workshop, there was going to be more work than just to build the framing. Not only was I going to be framing the layout but I was going to be putting in sheetr...
Posted by Karl Rethwisch
To all those REALLY interested in completely lighting up a locomotive I have a question coupled to a statement followed by a proposition. The question: Do you work VERY hard to emulate the BIG RR’s ?? Detail down to the last bolt and rivet - absolutely accurate paint and lettering - all the ...