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A switching layout south of Calgary. I drive by frequently but have yet to see it operating. There's an engine house, big one, station and tracksides. Everything is kept in top shape. Can't imagine the work involved in re-furbishing all of it plus all the heavy machinery needed to life and move...

I know (fairly certain) that... Z 1/220 N 1/160 T 1/120 HO 1/87 OO 1/76 S 1/64 O 1/48 UK O 1/43 G 1/22.5 Most confusing are all the n suffixes. What do they mean, and should I fear them? HOn3 = Sn2 HOn30 = On30 = Sn3½ - same as HO Sn3 Sn2 = HO It looks to me like the suffix gauges are...

Betcha a guy with a dremel cable drive, soldering and brass skills could cobble together a pretty decent 'table saw' to rip store bought basswood sheets into 1/32 x 1/16 strip wood if he had "miniature tempered saw blades are ultra-thin at only .005" thickness" from...

I got the PC Big 10 express 2 -10-2 for a handful of beans. But, what is it. What are the hoppers and why are they brick red?

Anyone here built any of the Jordan vehicle kits? They are cheap but apparently well detailed...figgity to assemble. http://www.wewannasellya.com/prods/uhh_jor.htm

Joe Fugate, writing in Model Railroad Hobbyist says hobbyists of today are not craftsman but an 'all thumbs' bunch, so bids 'good riddance' to scratchbuilding, suggesting a new reality. One cannot scratch build and build layouts at the same time.He says you can buy what you need to hurry the...

I’ve been thinking on this method long enough. Here’s the ‘blueprint’ conjured up from various bits gleaned from web searches. I have Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 so I can resize and print to N scale. The cost of importing 1/32 bass wood is prohibitively costly so I’m covering the pattern with...

I just got back at the hobby again, and I'm really ticked at all the MRR sites popping up. I don't have time to spend cruising umpteen 'MRR' sites. Seems everyone who fancies himself a webmaster starts his own. Most are same-old same-old stuff with nothing really new.

Craft ROBO Desktop Cutting Plotter http://www.graphteccorp.com/craftrobo The other is Cricut Cutter cuts vinyl http://www.cricutexpress.com/store.php?cat_id=13175&view=cat Watching demos and reading reviews, it seems like they are dream machines.

I have what I now know is Old Man's Beard moss. How do you dry,preserve and colour it?

I came across a hum dinger of a coal mine to model-the Atlas Mine, a National Historic Site at East Coulee Alberta.

It is absolutely INCREDIBLE. News from Rosetown IMHO

I met a professional engineer/exhibitor at Supertrains Calgary.He designs builds and supplies LED lighting circuitry and componants for N scale from his website at ngineering.com He will email instructions and help on anything you buy from him. Some of his circuitry ; Variable rate...

I'm tinkering with composing N scale building elevations on card stock. The elements are taken from a free download. The weathering/aging of the sign was accomplished by layering it with texture from around around it. I use the Canon Photo Studio 5 clone tool at 30 to 50 % opacity. I really...

SUPERTRAIN 2008 Calgary Soccer Centre 7000 - 48 Street SESaturday and Sunday April 19 and 20, 2008 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. FREE PARKING

Just drove the Rogers Pass en route to and from the Kamloops Cowboy Festival and spotted some very long trains. One with three lead engines,two-could have been three but the guard rail cut the view-in the middle. When there's a couple hundred hoppers, five locos, gravity and friction the...

Which comes first, the bridge or the gorge the bridge will span? If I build a trestle bridge first I have excavate a gorge to fit. If I excavate a gorge, I have to cut and fit the bridge into it. So, what I was thinking is that if I were to make a template for the gorge I will excavated in the...

Well, there’ll be no more driving dusty country roads taking photos of old farm buildings and barns, ranch houses, farm yards, fields, fences, cattle, abandoned machinery, horses, wildlife, sunrises and sunsets, tiny wildflowers, and country roads. It’s railroad season. Did anyone else forget...

I found a digital camera the other day and was able to find the owner from wedding some photos. It was an expensive camera, but what camera isn't these days! As I sorted through the photos trying to identify an owner, I had an idea: I marked’ my camera with a photo of my name and phone number...

UPDATED: 2007-08-15 18:14:37 MST Wed, August 15, 2007 Calgary Sun Train buffs will get an opportunity to catch a glimpse of a vintage 1930s steam locomotive in Calgary Friday. The Canadian Pacific 2816 Empress departs at 8 a.m. from the CP Pavilion at 1 St. and 9 Ave. S.W., said CP spokeswoman...