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Hey gang, Its that time again...what once was a daily event while at Mayewood has unfortunetly turned into a once a year running of the trains. While this doesnt seem to rival the running of the bulls in spain, I feel it is monumental none the less. I will be in Charolette N.C. tomorrow...

Hey gang, Been awhile, life has not offered much time for trains lately. The school year really flew by with all the testing these kids have to do. Elementary teaching is alot different then middle school,lol. Update on the train projects here at KBE...The Garden train track crew layed out the...

Hey gang, Has anyone ever thought about playing a trick on the old noggin and instead of trying to increase the grade of our tracks, making our engines grown under the strain, decreasing the benchwork. What I mean is lower the benchwork on a rather steep grade as it progress to give the...

Hey gang, Im up here in P.A. currently in Jim Thorpe and Tamaqua. Will be here till Wednesday and looking for trains to watch and possibly models to visit. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. If anyone wants to hookup while Im up here pm me your number and I will call, always...

I was wondering if anyone else out there would be interested in starting a thread/area on the gauge of track plans. I know what some of you are saying...we already have a track planning forum which is great...and this could be incorporated in there. What Im suggestion is a library of sorts that...

Hey gang, Anyone out there happen to have the scanner freq's for csx? I was figuring that csx had a se group of freq's it operated on but for the life of me I can hear a thing on my scanner at the house except the cops and fire dept. Help...I cant run to the yard to watch a train roll thru...

Can someone id the engine for me...I dont know how to tell them apart. Thanks...77Railer

Hey gang, Just picked up a Kodak z730 and figured I would try it out. Im impressed so far. What yall think? 77Railer

As some of you know I am mideling a copper company long forgotten about located in Kennecott Alaska. In April of 1943 model railroader ran an article about one of the bridges that I wish to incorporate in my layout. The million dollar bridge. Would anyone happen to have a copy of this lying...

Hey gang, As some of you know Im working on a refrigeraion plant for my CR&NWR layout. I was just sitting here thinking I had read or seen somewhere slaughtered beef in ho scale. Can anyone point me towards them...might just have to break down and carve them out of glue sticks perhaps...

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone out there in cyberland had created a database to keep track of which magazines they had and the articles within them. I just recieved a collection of train magazines and want a way to keep up with them as well as which Im missing. Thanks for all your help...

This begins a huge project...Im wanting to scratch build the Kennecott Copper Company in Alaska. Since I have never ever ever scratch built a single thing this will sure be interesting. This is pics of what I have done so far. Im using polystyrene for the foundation and then I plan on covering...

Well Gang, While I wait on track for the O gauge and G Gauge layouts at Kingsbury Monday starts the 3 week minimum HO layout which is going to be housed in a trophy case. While the layout itself is a simple oval it will feature pieces donated by members of the gauge as well as others by...

Well Gang, I finally took my first swing at making trees. The end result didnt turn out to bad for my first attempt. I used a whisk broom from Michaels and some adhesive spray from wal-mart, as well as some home made ground foam. Hope to get some pictures posted this afternoon. Just wanted...

Hi there gang, The first donation to the Garden Railroad Im working on at Kingsbury Elementary has arrived. The guys at http://www.gohobbies.com/ sent a nice care package for the kids. It contained the following: 1 MDC G2102 "Big Hustler" Missouri Pacific Switcher 1 Bachmann Big Hauler...

Hello fellas, Its been awhile for some and even longer for others...havent been on in awhile. Who would have thought that teaching fourth grade would actually be work,lol. I love the new school. The admins are very supportive in everything that I want to do. They have even let me bring my...

Hello again, 77Railer here. After 2.5 months vacation its that time again. The kids are preparing to come back to school and Im all moved in the new room :). I got a bathroom and a sink/water fountain. Im very excited about the railroading possibilities I see around the new facility. The new...

Hey guys, We finished our rockets yesterday and launched them during first and second period. 15 rockets in all using 2 different engines provided the rocket survived the first engine that is,lol. The kids had a blast. My US ARMY rocket has reached its final resting place in the woods next...

Be forwarned that in the corprate world one must know what is their repsonsibility and what is not. Apparently if you are an educator and you walk out of your room and smell smoke its not your responsibily to find the source of the smoke and if it just happens to be the trash can blazing in the...

Well guys, Ive searched and searched and well you get the point...Ive looked and havent been able to find it. Is there grid paper that has grids which equal 1/87 of an inch. If not how hard would it be for one of the more computer savy members to construct such a "template" that we could...