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I'm not sure how to ask but I need help and or direction to paint a backdrop on a bare white wall. First off I'm no artist by any means. I'm just looking to break up my tree line that borders around most of the layout , I'm not really even keen on clouds at least not right away. I just need...

Hi Everyone The family is perhaps heady down to the Southern Ontario ( Toronto) , Niagara and all points in between this up coming long weekend. My wife suggested my son and I get our selves lined up for any kinda train show going on over the long weekend as her and my daughter want to go...

Hi folks Here's my take on how I mounted my tortoise switch machines to the peco turnouts. I could have changed all the standard sized tortoise point throw wire to a heavier guage as I found with the peco springs the tortoise was not reliable so I simply removed the peco spring . I'll make it...

Hi folks Has anyone got digitrax ds64's on there layout or are familar with them? I have one of 11 that is very hot and doesn't respong to switching the tortoises although it did originally work fine and I didn't change anything. I was wandering if someone is familar with them how they wired...

ok guys as here's is the final plan :o By the way the grey matter is roadway ( yes I know what it looks like ) the perimeter rail starting in the lower left is a 3% grade going up then leveling off at the top left inside then declines from the top right to just below the sawmill then there's a...

Hiya Folks I'm trying to figure out yard operations here that will work the best for the amount of room I have on the layout I made a couple yard versions up and I'm wandering which would be the more effective. When a train comes off the main line pulling the train into the siding which is...

Hi folks I have boughten the following HO Scale steam engines and there all dcc ready and all spectrums.I have the digitrax chief ( not sure if this matters) Can some of use fine folks tell me what would be my best bet for the following things I'd like to accomplish as I trust that many of use...

I'm wandering is it a common practice to have an increased grade and then ease it off a bit once the bench work cross members have been cleared this is for decending to below bench top elevation to a below table staging area. I have my staging area descending track going down to a -18.5"...

Hiya folks I'm wandering if anyone has some links for reference for early 40's too late 60's era. I'm looking to match up some diesel and steamers in HO scale. The diesels and steamers will both need to be dcc ready or dcc sound installed already, more than likely bachmann spectrum or...

Hi Folks I was down in Toronto over the week end and one of the hobby shop guys had said something to me I thought kinda strange .He had commented that it is better to use the peco electra frogs compared to the peco insulfrogs because over time the points would get dirty and what would happen is...

Hi Folks I'd like to learn a bit about steam\diesel engines and I have a few questions if use can please give your input I'm going to be shopping for a few stean engines DCC is an absolute mus in HO. 1. I've seen a few popular manufacturers of steam\diesel engines how do they all compare...

Hi I'm shopping around for new turnouts for my layout it is DCC run and I would like to know which type of turnout is going to perform better and look better a peco , walthers shinohara , or NMRA I already have used the Atlas turnouts. My plan was doen in xtrkcad program and most of the...

Looks like I have another of many hurtles to jump over down the railroad hobbie way of life so the next task to learn... I have 4x4 feet of bench work on the right end and over 4x4 feet on the left end of the benchwork. I would like to make 2 helixes for each end to drop the track down to 12"...

OK this is a sort of poll\questionaire and is for those of use that have had or have now a DCC system. This is not for those who have heard something was good or bad but for those who have had direct hands on with different dcc manufactures systems. I would like to know what your honest...

Just give the image a click to go big Ok so here's the plan green obviously marks the bench work I'm thinking of moving the bench work out to 34" on the West side wall and the North side wall to gain abit more area for scenery. The entrance to room has no door or actually has a bar style...

What would be the differences in differnet types of benchwork and plan other than the obvious an island layout is an island type where as a shelf layout is a shelf. Can you get better operations on one type of layout compared to another or can you lay more track on each different type more...

Hi I've been researching dcc for a few months now I was introduced to it before christmas at a train show and of course everyones is the best out there. I was told at the train show that sometimes Atlas switches will cause a problem with dcc but just the other day a guy that owns a hobby store...

Hiya would any one out there have the book 18 Tailor Made Model Railroad Track Plans (Model Railroad Handbook, No. 19) (Paperback) by John H. Armstrong in there pile of books I found the book on amazon but it can't be shipped to me here in Canada or I'd buy it in asecond I'm interested in one...

Well I thought it's about time I post some pics of my layout seeing as alot of u guys have been a great help then came the benchwork plan printed 1:1 in xtrack WS risers glued down yes you can see I had to tweak the plan a bit as can be expected testing the radius and lining up...

Ok here it is just trying to narrow things down a bit for a double rail bridge over the gorge. As you can see on the styrene template I made up there are 2 rails outlined or actually the edges of the ties are outlines , then the lines outside of that are the min clearance according to the nmra...