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After reading McGilliCutty's thread on stuck trucks http://forum.zealot.com/t158364/ I felt that I just had to share this that I received in an email from a friend. Here is a truck driver looking for a job. Know anyone hiring? hamr According to the person who sent this, the driver has only...

I was doing a bit of research for Les who had posted a thread at http://forum.zealot.com/t158173/ and while paging through some consists of Fallen Flags at http://rr-fallenflags.org/atsf/atsf-41pax.html in hopes of finding something useful for him I came across this car classification: Page 8...

The Darwinism theory states that there are those around us that should and will be by a "Stupid" gene be prevented from reproducing. This is an obvious example of that theory. :-o I have debated three days whether to post this or not, the right to know, the tastefulness; all right, there is no...

Don't you just hate it when they overbook on the holidays? :eek: :eek: :eek:

Unfortunately I don't live where I get to see a large number of trains, but I can't remember seeing any cattle cars in the ones I do get to see. Are they there and I just never see them or are they from bygone days? In my excursions on eBay I ended up as the owner of a number of said cattle...

I like the new look of the Forum, but a couple questions: Are we still the Gauge or are we now Zelot? I've noticed a few unusual new forums, RC Aircraft for example. A bug in the new system, or are we branching out into combined hobbies? :confused: :mrgreen: :D One suggestion I'll...

Hello all. I have a challenge for you. The first picture is the upper level of the N scale layout I would like to build, and the second is the lower level. Transition is via two helixes on either end of the benchwork. There are a number of features that I really like about this layout. First...

I was looking at web cam sites for my links pages and happened to catch a string of close to 100 single and double stack intermodals going by. The strange thing was that they were backing up. I know this because I caught the first car (not an engine) and watched the whole train go by. The...

When were you born? This might be easier to keep a running tally of how old our members are for the next few years. :D :D

I was surfing around and came across this site that used old flatcars for bridges. I was wondering if anyone else has seen or modeled anything like this.

I was reading a book (early Christmas present) of Sci-Fi Christmas stories when I came upon a poem by John M. Ford called Winter Solstice, Camelot Station, and immediately thought of the Gauge. It was a bit too long to copy out here, plus there's all of the copyright mumbo-jumbo but I did some...

I need an electrical substation for my planned N scale layout. I hunted for the one made by Con-Cor that is discontinued, but had no luck. I found a substation on eBay by Tomix. The photo didn't show much detail so I have no idea if they are any good. Has anyone had experiences with Tomix? Is it...

Are there any problems with running an unmatched consist with DC? (and please don't tell me how much easier it would be to use DCC :D :D :D :D )

I got the following in an email recently. I've seen it before, and got to wondering if it has any basis in fact or is it just another internet myth: The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used...

I've seen these around several different places, and now through the serendipity of a lot purchase on eBay I now own one. My question is: what the heck is it? Is it just a flat car with three tubs as a load? They work out to about 10' in diameter x 10' high. Who or what would use tubs that...

I picked this little (N scale) item up on eBay for about $11, but have been unable to identify what it is. It looks very similar to an RS-11, but it's got six axles instead of the RS's four. I've run every kind of search I can think of and some came close but still no cigar. Does anybody have...

After I don't know how many months I finally came up with a solution to the last section of my layout plan, the switch yard. Got the staging looking good with a lot of help from Train Clown, thanks TC. The industrial area now works like an actual business instead of the spaghetti strewn time...

Glory Hallelujah! I just read in the latest MR that Atlas finally came out with a "Y" in N scale. :eek: :eek: Now if they would have done that before I spent months working out a layout that could have used them. :curse: :curse: :curse: I wonder how long it will take then to come out with an...

I was going back through some of my old MRs and in the April 04 issue there was an article on different wireless systems. I'm going to go with DCC at some point and wireless sounds interesting. In the article they reviewed the Lenz XPA which uses a cordless phone for the CAB. Does anyone have...

Finally got my lower staging area figured out (Thanks Train Clown!) but then got to looking at my main level industrial park and the more I looked at it the less appealing it was. I don't even think that it qualifies as a "timesaver" or even a time waster so I set about trying to figure out how...