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Just the other day, I was driving past the local tracks and noticed them drop off new rail along side of the old track. They are putting in heavy rail due to a new ethanol plant 20 miles to the north and they need heavier sidings for all the corn cars now running through here. So I snapped some...

I am in need of some help designing a layout in HO. I have tried using Atlas's program with no luck. So I'm asking for help from the great people of THE GAUGE. I'm not really going to model a specific year, but I would say more Steam era and transition period. Want to keep the wiring simple so...

balloon6balloon6balloon6 Happy Birthday, hope its filled with many trains and thanks for all your help in the past! Terrell

I have looked all over the gauge for a thread that was done on rerouting the wires from the tender to the engine to make it look more prototypical. I believe the tutorial was with a bachmann spectrum. I have done searches and scrolled through majority of the guage trying to find it. So if anyone...

Everytime I hear the whistle blowing, I have to look outside and see what the local RR is hauling. First time I've see anything like this going by.

I picked this box car up at a toy show. It was already built, only identafication on it is on the draft box. It says AFR USA. Also the trucks on it are put together trucks and are really sloppy. Will not stay on the track. They are just held in with a push in stud. Want to change them out. Is...

I have a problem with an old bachmann 2-8-0 steamer. Only the left side wheels get extremely dirty and the right are practically clean. I use rubbing alcohol to clean with, but it doesn't clean the wheels completely. If I scrape on them with a hobby knife the grime comes off. But I dont want to...

Must of been a friday, when this track was ballasted?sign1

This is my first attempt at weathering after seeing the tutorial from deano. It is a quick and easy way of weathering.hamr I'm going to have my two year old son do the next one with me. He's such a train nut already.train97 Trucklover, I see you started a thread using the same technique, you got...

I am building a new HO layout based off of a Atlas layout. The layout says to use #4 custom line turnouts. At the Atlas web site it says that a snap switch and #4 custom line turnouts are not interchangeable in Atlas layout plans. Why is this? Are they different lengths or have different turnout...