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Found this great site, blogspot with awesome prototypical photos and info. Even has consist loco numbers, etc.....Both CN and CP http://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com/

I've looked in the recent Walthers Catlg with no luck. Has anyone found a good resource for a street/sidewalk mailbox? I'm not referring to the individual house mailboxes, I know Woodland scenic makes lots of those, the one with the small newspaper box on a post. The one I'm referring to is the...

I'm wanting to remove the sideframes of my SD40 so I can weather them. I was told a while ago about the fragile small clips that keep them together. Are there 2 clips, one at each end of the truck that keep the sideframes together? Does one use a small screwdriver to separate the clips so the...

<P>Just got my beloved GP9 back and had the old sound decoder swapped out for the Tsunami sound decoder. </P> <P>All I can say is WOW!!</P> <P>Finally I have a Geep that really sounds like a Geep. With the right tweak from the equalizer you can really get a very high quality sound from such a...

Hi all, Need your help on a "should I" "shouldn't I" situation regarding oiling the external rods, joints and drivers on a HO brass locomotive. Surely metal on metal can't be good over a long time. Not that I'm running it at hi speed, never would, or for 3 hours of constant running every day...

Hi folks, Just thought I'd get some opinions on if anyone is putting passengers in their passenger cars. I have the Preiser seated passenger people and was wondering about putting them in my cars. Then the other question is alot or just a few. Was concerned that maintenance by lifting off the...

Hi all, When I used to travel from coast to coast aboard the CN Super Continental, I used to spend most of my time looking out the upper half of the open vestibule door. I use to watch the engines out front and listen to them as they took me closer to my destination. This movie here was taken...

Hi all, I happen to shoot one of the first test's of my CN Super Continental passenger train today. YouTube - CN Super Continental YouTube - Super Continental I say test's as I still have some homework to do on the diaphragm's. Different manufacturer's with different heights and tension can...

http://forum.zealot.com/t119252/ Have a look if you get the chance and hope you enjoy. Thanks, Heath:-D

Here's a few video links of my trains in a friend's layout. Just got my new Pt. St. Charles caboose professionally painted and weathered. All painting on caboose by an expert model craftsman who does great work. Caboose is a Van Hobbies, brass model. I know it's the same engine and train...

Hi all, Was just wondering what you all are using for making road's/street's/highway's? Store bought "rolls" of street's with highway divider lines, etc. or use other material? Wood, plastic? Heard a few people mention about using styrene, paint it, weather it. In addition, what about sidewalks...

CN GP9 movie & pic Ok, here we have 2 chop nose Geep's with a hi nose in the middle. Technically the lead and the last are supposed to be a Geep 9's but are really a GP18's. As I do like the chop nose's, Tyco and the like were passing them off as GP9's. The lead is my very first Tyco locomotive...

With a trip down memory lane as I wanted to get my original Tyco GP9-18 hybrid on the rails again. This loco was part of the Tyco train set that I got when I was a kid back in the early 1970's. You should have seen what the shell of the poor HO loco looked like after I had finished using it when...

I searched around for quite a while for a CN RS18 and came across only two versions in the P2K brand. One was in the green and gold scheme and the other was in the stripes scheme. I really want to keep my loco's in the CN noodle scheme. So, what does one do if the paint is wrong but you love...

We've all had them as starter kits when we were just wee folk. I still have a majority of mine and decided to do something with them. Cars are all at least 30 years old (am 40 now) so I enjoyed them upto 10 years old. Some were a bit beat up but thought nothing I couldn't fix. A few stirrup...

Hi all, Bought a few Sylvan models. I've researched the posts here in regards to cleaning the mould release agent from the parts. I have called so many stores and no one has an affirmative answer, or I get "don't knows". Of course no one stocks the Diosol or the Resin Prep that Sylvan says to...

Hi there one and all who have the PC Canadian National Hudson 5702. Just thought I'd add that I finally was able to take my Hudson over to a friends fantastic layout on the May long weekend. He has quite a large layout with a twin track helix. Great guy and a spectacular layout. For starters...

Those who are looking for additional info on the PC Can Super Store CN Hudson 5702. I bought one and had a friend install a decoder in it. Pretty quiet machine I must say. As the engine only pickups were quite finicky going over switch frogs I rewired the tender for pick up. Upon opening up the...