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I have a 11 'x 14' HO layout and i am going to run a coal train to a dpm power plant i have on the layout . I now have the chance to get the Apalachin flood loader for the layout heres were the problem starts . The flood loader will have to be put were i had planed for the power plant because...

My friend and i just got 3 more u330c in the d&H lightning strip my question is how hard is it to just renumber a unit? we now have some of the same road numbers. we have 2 .#262 3 .#260 and 1 .#254 i am trying to talk him into renumbreing them .and he seems to think its a hard job .and i...

i was on my way to pick my girlfriend and seen this train i pulled into a gas station and got a camra to get the picks of this D&H GP38-2 and then happend to pass this litte switcher working at our local freto lay

hi all just need to vent and maybe get some tips. i am bulding a new layout its 11'x14'x3'w . i am not verry good at laying flextrack so my buddy is helping out and i am gratfull but he is a truck driver and is home verry little and i want to run trains already. so tonight i went down to the...

I was doing some wireing on the layout today i ran the bus wire around the layout getting it ready for when i instal the feeders. i got all the way around the layout back to the starting point and wasent shure what to do with the end of the bus wire. do i tape them off and leave it or do i wire...

i am running dcc i have no revirse loop but a good number of switches. i am useing the atlas coad 100 mark 3 #6 switches thay have insulated frogs do i still need insulated rail joiners so thay dont short out? there is one part on my layout that my sideing track croses over my main line but i...

ok i have most of my roadbed down and am getting ready to lay track. but i am unshure if the white glue that you can buy at walmart . that i used to glue the roadbed to the foam bench work will hold down the track to the foam roadbed . so i would like yo know what you guys have used and think...

can anyone help me out i got the testors airbrush and compresor kit at walmart. i get it home and the compresor seems to work the brush blows air but no paint.anyone got any ideas or tips for me i tryed every thing from thinned paint to just thinner and its not blowig any paint just air. i tryed...

i want to run a dubble track on woodland sceanics 2% risers. but as some of you may know thay wont fit two ho scail tracks on them .should i just buy 4 sets 2 up and 2 down. or is there any other way to do this . and just some info the trackes are on one big curve so the risers would have to...

ok guys this is not a canada railway well wasent C.P owens it now along with track rights with C.N and N.S itS the D&H BRIDGE LINE http://www.bridge-line.org/

i just got ant put together the valley growers grain tower and i want to weather it what color do you guys use to dry bursh rust on metal roofs .and maybe a dirt color to for the side walls i dont have a air brush so it will have to be done by paint brush.

i am useing woodland secnics 2% grade and i want to run a dubble track will i need two sets of the risers or will one work and if i need to use two will the inside grade be longer because the inside run is shorter than the outside

if i insulate the hole loop and and give it its own power do i still need the dpdt switch. bye the hole loop i mean insulate both tracks on the turn out the and give the loop its own power so the swich will have a diffrent power sourse than the loop. i am using mark 3 atlis switches insulfrog

ok guys i have narowed it down to two track plans just looking for some input on them both and wich one looks better/works best sorry about the images but i had to take a pic with the camra i dont have a scanner. if you need to see the bench work here it is pay no attion to the riseres i...

ok guys i got my track plan laid out on paper with some help from a friend hopefully i can scan it in and post it here when he makes them alittle bigger. :thumb: we are thinking of putting in a scenery divider to make twice the main line run than if i had just open bench work. but nether of...

but i thought modal railroading was suposed to be fun. as some of you know i am the prosess of rebulding my HO layout with the help of posters here:thumb: and some verry "helpfull friends" :curse: that think my ideas arent as good as theres.but what gets me is this. one of them is relly good...

ok i got all my bench work done this weekend for my HO layout and all i can say wow its bigger than i thought .its 11' by 11' overall mesurements with a 5'hole in the centerand the bench work is 3feet wide. i will post pics in the gauge party #5 when i can probly next weekend but this is...

do you modelers have any good tricks on how to bury track and still beable to use it. in part of my yard i am making a intermodel yard for contaner trains and trucks and i want to run the track under the truck loading lot .kinda like a at grad crossing but i will make it cover the span of to or...

the rail grinder just went by my house i look forword to this time of year when there is snow they run the grinder if you have never seen this its a sight to see if you have ya know what i am talking about.nothin like lots of noise and sparks to make my day:thumb:

:wave: Hi i am new here i am in the prosess of takeing down my old ho layout to bild a new one. because i made some mastakes like not being able to reach most of my track to clean or scean easy and not planing for a dubble main. so this is my new layout plan its made of 1/4"plywood cut to 3'...