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Hi everyone its been a long time since I have been here and have a thought for you all! Anyone remember when the Gauge car was making the layout circut with its load?? Well my Club has made a club car and I was wondering if it would be of intrest to do the same with one of ours?? For those that...

Ok my fellow photogs I want to take a photo of some train cars with the full moon in the background I am shooting with a Canon Rebel XT 28 to 200 lens and I am still pretty new to taking photos with the creative settings so go easy on the techno jargon LOL. I messed around taking photos with...

I am a big fan of depots and {UP's} freight car thread got me to thinking what about a depot thread? Only one rule it has to be a depot that you took a picture of!!! It dosn't have to be used as a depot today and I think it might be more intresting if it wasn't but any depot and road any...

I was given about 10 boxes of old model RR mags by a lady from her late husband they date back as far as the oldest I have so far is a June 1936 Vol. 3 No. 6 the binding is a little bad and torn on this one but for the age its in really good condition the rest go from the 30's 40's on up to the...

I was out in the yard today and heard the whistel coming into town when I got to the tracks with the cam this is what I saw

Hey I am in need of help from the photographers on here I bought a rebel xt on Ebay with the tax money and would like to get a external flash for my cam for when I go to swap meets and whatnot as I might be taking over as the web host for the region. As I am still in the beginng stages I am not...

Try this I think I am addictid to it already it is trains and shooting all in one and you have to think where you switch your train to and what you attach to it for weapons and just all around fun Play Rail Of War For Free on FreeArcade.com takes a lil to load but a dang neat lil game

I was asked by the other club members if it would be possable for me to make a map of the Club layout to hand out explaning what is what and where as visitors walk throught the layout I am not looking for anything real fancy just somthing that would do the track work like maby in the pages of...

What ever happened to the Gauge box car and did we ever have a N scale version??? If it is no more would somone be intrested in starting it again I would but I'm not that far in the decal and painting part as of yet.

I would like to add a scale house on my siding and have no idea how to go about it I am going to try my first card stock scratch build any plans for what I am doing I can use ? Like I said I have never built a scratch build so go easy on me:mrgreen:

Working in a scrap yard I get some intresting finds today I came acrost a a brass padlock for a switch I am assuming. It has the C.M.& St.P.RR on the back the latch cover is missing but all in all in good shape. Now for the question who were these guys I know I have seen the initials somwhere...

I was walking the local yard the other day and there was a bunch of orange tubes sticking up between the ties didnt get any photos of them maby tom but any idea what they would be?

I bought some Caboose Indus. ground throws at the LHS the other day and didnt know I had unsprung throws, after reading some posts in here I see that I will have to add springs to these but how is this done.wall1 I try to thow the switch and the throw is moving almost as much as the turnout...

I found this track plan in MRR Mag last month and decided to make it to take to the local museum and swaps at times finished the mail line track work tonight and all is running well here are the begining pics:thumb: 1 Track plan from the mag 2 my layout 3 my layout

Hey working on a new model for the layout and was wondering since I cant make to the LHS cept maby once every three months is it possable and recemended to paint a model with say Folk Art Acrylic paint like you can buy at Wally World I am building a Cornerstone Clarksville Depot and will be...

I am working on this track plan for N scale in Model RR'r Oct. issue but when its all cut and I placed temp blocks in place that 4" elevation in the top left corner looks really really high does this look right to anybody else or do you think I should change my elevations. It is 21x42inches

I want to make the N scale track layout in the Oct MRR'r and need some help if intrested in helping me get a figure on it pop in and give you'r two cents worth. Thanks Mike http://forum.zealot.com/t152400/

Hey been a while since I posted but I have need of some help from yall if you can.. I was looking in the new Oct. issue of Model RR'r and fell in love with the feature Great Northern layout in less then 7 square feet. Now the questions? [1] I have always freelanced my layout so when it says...

I put in here a while back about some dumb guy pulling a fishing boat going around the crossing arms in town here but tonight I have seen it all !!!!! I was stopped at a crossing and pulled to the side to watch the through freight as it picked up a few cars, sitting on the hood of the car...

On the way home from work tonight I saw this up on my faverite bridge to take pics on it was heading towards Mps. StP. I have seen it modeled but never relized it was proto. :thumb: If you see it pop one off or just let us know maby we can track it acrost the United States