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Have a look at our website galleries section and you'll find several photos showing our dam module - West Island Modular Railroad Club

Thanks for your post Ron. Very Nice website and layout. We're the West Island Modular Railroad Club (WIMRC), not to be confused with your WMRC! Our website West Island Modular Railroad Club tells about our club, its objectives, by-laws, procedures and other such stuff plus photos and videos...

Looking good! It appears as if you stripped the original paint scheme before priming. What did you use as stripper?

The Canadian Railway Museum (Exporail) at St. Constant (no longer Delson), across the St. Lawrence River from Montreal is Canada's premier railway museum and is likely to receive national museum status shortly.

Our club (www.wimrc.ca) is planning the introduction of a portable hinged lift-up module to reduce the need for duck-unders, which are becoming more onerous as some of our members grow in size (unfortunately), and all of us age - pitiful cries of aching backs and knees are heard every session...

What materials are used for "underlayment" and for sealing (against humidity?)? It would be interesting to see a photo of the construction.

Here are the Grizzly Northern's smallest and largest steam locomotives - 0-4-0 No. 2 and 2-10-2 No. 5802.

Jon, thanks for the excellent photos. I intend to apply your solution to my Proto 0-8-0, as it frequently hesitates when going over switches. I also intend to install a decoder. Several questions: Do you have a photo of the internal wiring, showing how you wired into the eight pin connector...

Thanks for the very useful DCC information Railwaybob. Over the last several days I've tried to access your website www.railwaybob.com by clicking on your link or by entering the address on my browser, without success. I hope the problem is temporary?

This is an interesting thread, particularly to DCC wannabees like me. Three questions: 1) Under what wiring conditions does inductance become a problem, leading to the need for twisted pairs?? 2) Is track cleanliness more or less of a problem with DCC? I've read opinions both ways. 3) Are...

Can anyone advise the manufacturer, the age of the HO 0-4-0T shown in the attachments, or any other information? The construction is mainly brass castings, raised lettering and riveting, with baked on enamel paint, and may have been kit bashed. The motor is vertically mounted in the cab and...

The brown lines are the famous London Underground (Tube) system. If you Google "London Undergound" (or Tube) you'll find what today's lines look like. Most of them appear on Graham's map link. During the 1930's the LNER and the LMS were fierce competitors, running very-high-speed steam-powered...

My goodness! May I ask as to what so stirs your bile regarding the Great Western, Sir? ;)

Life-Like produces 33 inch Ribbed Back Wheel Sets in their Proto 2000 Series, Item 21259, pack of 12 steel wheel sets (enough for 3 vintage freight cars/cabooses) :)

I've now built and brush painted four Tichy wood sided ore cars for the Kingdom Copper Mines and they look great. They do take time, I've got down the learning curve to about eight hours each working on one at a time, including wet decal lettering and numbering (I'm a slow learner). After having...