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On Tuesday, I went on a ride with my family on the Royal Gorge Railroad in Canyon City, CO. My father and shelled out some extra bucks to take a cab ride rather than sit in the passenger cars. The CCRG (Canyon City & Royal Gorge) is a tourist line that runs a 20 mile round-trip run (10 out...

Well, as predicted by several retailers, Lifelike has announced that they will be making the GP60 in several roadnumbers. This is a long-anticipated locomotive for many people. Lifelike will also be using the Accurail (accumate) couplers instead of Rapidos (another first for them). No word...

I had some locomotives custom painted for me by Blaine Bachmann and I wanted to show them off. For those of you that may not recognize the scheme, the Southern Pacific and the AT&SF (Santa Fe) railroads tried to merge during 1985-86. The application was denied, even though both railroads...

http://www.mdcroundhouse.com/general/N2-6-0Loco.htm MDC/Roundhouse just announced recently that they're making a 2-6-0 loco, apparently based off their 2-8-0 Connie. It looks like it could be easily kitbashed into a respectible 4-6-0 as well!

Well, since it seems that everyone's posted a doctored photo but me, it's time to fix that. Just your basic nighttime shot, although the stars seem a little different tonight.

I was driving through Vernon, TX on Monday when I saw a fellow using a farm tractor (regular John Deere-ish tractor) to move covered hoppers around a grain silo. He had a cable running to a tie-down point on the hopper and was pulling it down the tracks towards some other hoppers in the...

IM announced today on the Atlas Forum (and supposedly in the N-Scale Railroading magazine in the mail right now) that they are working on a new production runs of SD40-T2s, SD45-T2s, and SD45-2s. No formal details, but roadnames should include DRGW, SP, UP, CanPac, and others. Now if in-house...

OK, so it may not be that important, but we just set another online record as I speak, err... type! Now all I need to do is run around to a couple more of these vacant computers to really raise the bar!;)

While perusing another forum, I was pointed in the direction of http://www.ttx.com . This is TTXs website (the guys who lease all that yellow intermodal equipment and railbox stuff). Click on the equipment overview button and your're given lots of information and pictures about the freight...

I finally got my P42s in today and they look incredible! I know, they were available for awhile, but I'm a late bloomer. I decided to put the Kato Superliners and MHCs on order to go with the locos. Then I can feature a four-line passenger special: The ATSF Superchief (circa 1940's), Rio...

The 'most ever online at one time record' was broken last night. Hmmm... A bunch of model railroaders sitting around on a Saturday night staring at the computer. Are we a bunch of party-animals or what?:p ;)

While traveling around lovely Ft Sill, OK, this morning, I noticed three GP-38s pulling in. All the were from the K&O (Kansas & Oklahoma) RR, which I had never heard of before. They were a solid black, with black and white slanted stripes on the nose & tail(same pattern as the BN stripes)...

Finally got a package I had waited all month for, and the anticipation was better than the real thing. Two of the 6 items ordered were discontinued (although still shown on the website) and the MT 6-wheel trucks were the wrong color (silver vs. black). So, back they go. At least the MT boxcar...

BLW has started accepting reservations for the new 2-8-8-2s by LL. Roads are ATSF and N&W with two numbers each, along with the Undecorateds. Glad to see more N-scale plastic steam, especially for a lot less than the Con-cor Bigboy!:D :) :cool: :p

Kato has posted a undecorated photo of their upcoming P42 on their website. I wasn't planning to model Amtrak, but I may end up changing my mind. Especially with the new Superliners that Kato is producing. Those, plus a MHC from Con-cor and a couple of Road-railers from Deluxe, and I've got a...

What's the reasoning behind all the variations steam locos had with their lead and trailing trucks. (ie 2-6-2, 4-6-2, 2-6-4) I understand about the number of drivers and the need for power and traction, and that lead and trail trucks helped guide the loco but why the differences? If more axles...

I just recieved several Athern dummy loco's that I want to use in a display. Being that this is the first time I've dabbled in HO for about 15 years, I have decided to seek help. Does anyone know who makes a nice wooden wall mounted display for locomotives? I'm thinking of the kinds with...

I'm looking at purchasing a DCC starter system in the future and I was hoping to get some opinions. I'm primarily considering between the Digitrax Chief II and Lenz 01 Professional Set. Cost really isn't an issue as I will have a couple of months to save for it and I would rather err on the...

I'm looking at building my first semi-permenant layout (been futtzing around with Kato track for awhile) and I would really like to incorporate a hump yard. Does anyone know if this has been done before and if any references are around? I am also planning to put down some circular/oval loops...