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I made the mistake of buying some Hotwheels for my train set up and got hopelessly addicted to collecting hotwheels. Man it is worse than a cocaine addiction. http://henryslureworld.com/hotwheels/hotwheels.html

More pics. I have 3 ho trains and one o scale running on this 4 by 8 ft setup. Thats why no natural scenery.

Ok I haven't updated in a while so here goes. No ryme or reason to my setup. God bless this mess. I got tons of stuff but haven't decided how to arrange it to make the streets. If I ever get it right I will wire lights in all the buildings. I have several boxes of Ho stuff with no where to...

cool. Thanks

What is the best way to cut it?

What styrofoam is best for layouts? I am thinking of raising part of my layout so I can have a couple tressels and some better scenery. Do I use just plain styrafoam or the kind with plastic impregnated into it?

My setup is all 18 inch eztrack. I have two new Athearn U28C six axel jobs that go through the curves and over the switches smooth as silk. They go around the corners like greased lightening. I think I will grab about 6 more of them while they are onsale. I have tried several other brands and...

Gus I am going to use velcro to wrap my wires and stick then to the bottom of the table top. This should keep them nice and neat. Also I will put tape labels on the ends of the wires so I can identify them. Will bind them all up nice and neat in one strand with velcro entering coming into my...

Thanks Gus I just bought 6 of them from the website. Now soon as I get my awitches from Ebay I will go nuts on turnouts. HAHAHA

Also can I operate the electronic switches without DCC by switching the buttons on the control panel or do I need DCC.

I want to put two electronic turnout switches on each side of my 4 ft by 8 ft layout and have all the switches on my control panel under the front of the table. The wiring instructions says plug this into that but they only give you about a foot of wire between the plugs. I need over 4 ft. Do I...

Not much scenery here yet but this is what I see in mind as I watch these trains for hours and get lost in thought. A big red Santa Fe engine is just leaving the Colorado mountains heading out across the desert headed for a small saw mill near Santa Fe. Sleek and fast it hammers the tracks...

I am still rather new at this but right now I would say Athern. I bought a couple new engines and two 5 pack build it yourself kits of 2 bay hoppers for coal cars. I am adding Kadee couplers and Nickle silver Proto wheels. They run smooth at glass and the athern engines are smoth and powerful.

Jules I sent you a message about the ez track but you did not reply?

Are thos HO scale flatbeds or O scale? Looks cool.

Thanks for the tip jules. Wow Les. It looks awsome. I have plenty of logs to put at the mill and at the edge of the woods so not planning on loading and unloading any. You can only do so much with HO scale. I wanted to tie them on but too tedious and what ever I used it would probably drag on...

I was just playing lumber jack today. This is my first setup and just started it and have no scenery yet. But I made up this log train today. http://www.the-gauge.com/showthread.php?p=193700#post193700

I had to reduce the size of the load on the first longer car. It was too top heavy. I just have 5 logs on it now and that Model power SanteFe engine just rips around the track with no derails. I want to get some more red flat cars and make about 8 more loads to make it look real. Log trains in...

Ok one more try here. I want to add a coal house, a cattle yard and a sawmill as soon as I can get the buildings. I also want to get about 8 ho coasl cars in black to add to the middle train and remove the other junk. I have a ton of cattle cars already, I will just have to put them on a side...

Ok I give up. THe links to the pics work but how do I post them to open like the ones above?