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:winter1: An uncommon sight is the random snow flurry in a New Orleans winter. You can imagine the excitement in this town when an inch accumulated on the ground. Suburbs adjacent to New Orleans less that 50 miles away measured 8". Moving in from the west, a low pressure system, unsually...

:cry:Press St. tracks of NS and New Orleans Public Belt RR at Chartres St. in New Orleans' Bywater District. As the train moves from the yard rounding a curve that snakes past the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, these cars jumped the track

:wave:After over 3 years, (since Aug 2005) I am getting back into my model railroad activities and back to reading and posting at the Gauge. I will begin planning the rebuilding of my layout that Katrina's rains ended. Water and layouts don't mix well. Spared portions of the layout have been...

Hello everyone. I evacuated the 3300 block of Burgundy St in New Orleans on Sunday, Aug 28th and headed to a family friends house in Mobile, AL. I took with me my neighbors acorss the street. We traveled in two Jeeps and a 30 year old VW. Loaded with 4 people and 5 cats and 2 dogs we took...

hello, I added some new photos of the break-in run of Locomotive 745 to the bottom of one of my pages. The photos a large so the page takes a bit to load up but the are so clear that I did not want to change the detail. My friend who went train chasing took them for me...

Today I went with two of my neighbors and we took a ride out early this moring to see the break-in run of the newly restored 745 2-8-2 steam loco. The three of us, arrived at the KCS yard just west of the city limits just before 9 am. The old engine was off in the distance backing into a "Y" and...

:wave: Happy Mardi Gras from New Orleans Bywater Neighborhood :wave:

Whats the orgins of this site? Who created this and when? Is the site's history archived some place on the site? Just wondering about this for no reason at all. :confused: It has been of great value to me and I sure do enjoy all the photos, tips and communicaiton of ideas. It appears to me...

This topic may have been covered before, but I need to get a good medium priced ($300+/-) digital that I can also use to take close-up photos of my layout and models. Any brand names and models or must haves that such a camera should have to do close work. Not needing professional type...

A progress photo of the cypress swamp....any suggestions on making water....whats your choice to make the wet look.

Finished up this group of cypress Trees for the swamp section of my layout, part of my modeling goals for this weekend completed. :thumb:

:thumb: The long awaited new streetcar line is in operation. After having been removed in 1964 the 40 year old mistake is finally over. On Sunday, at 3 o'clock in the morning, over 200 people of all kinds and for all reasons, crowded aboard the first 4 regularly scheduled cars as they left the...

The beautifully restored 1920s-era private railroad car bears the name of its new owner in large golden letters: City of New Orleans. Nearly ready for delivery after a year in the hands of restorer Pete Messina, the parlor-observation car soon will be pulled to its new home at 4822...

I am interesed in getting some opinions on a situation that we have going on here in New Orleans. In 1964 the Canal St. streetcar line was removed and left the city with only the St. Charles line. Last Thursday, the first streetcar in 40 years ran a test run on the newly reinstalled Canal...

I am working with some strip wood kits, building 72' Mt. Vernon style flatcars. I want to add some rivets for details. Any out there have a good way of making rows of rivets on a wood kit?

I all, Found these photos that I took back in 1984 or so, of 4501 Southern Steam. Photo was taken in New Orleans behind the old Cypress Grove Cemetary near the intersection of Canal Street, City Park Ave and Metairie Road. The tracks are along side of the Interstate 10. The steamer is on...

Hi all, I will be heading up to Chicago at the end of the month for a visit and the Mus. of Science and Indus'ty will be one of the stops to see the new layout. Was wondering if there are any other Chicagoland model railroad places to visit.

WOW...........A must see for any model railroad fan......Just got back home from a trip out west........I taped lots of cool footage of their layout.....the operators took me under their wings.....gave me a tour inside the display......and stagged lots of cool operations for me to...

Hi, How many model railroaders, who like myself, also include a circus train. My railroad layout is HO scale, but I have a collection of 1/4" circus wagons which I display on specially built circus flat cars. The circus wagon modeling brought me into model railroading where I changed scale...

Hi all, Has anyone seen or used the railroad chat room www.railchat.com ? I have gone to it a few times however never anyone there. The gauge is much more informative, however a model rr chat room would be cool. Best Nick