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Got the train running. :mrgreen:

I got into a fight with my roomates and I don't know what came out worse, me or my layout. All I was doing was playing my music a little loud while working on my train. :mrgreen: It aint like they were in bed and had to get up for work. I was just having good clean fun. Now I am blind in one...

I have no idea how it happened, but after soldering most of my track I decided to lay it back out on the roadbed and give it a run. The other day it all lined up perfect and the bed is glued. Now almost none of it lines up and I am going to have to redo the cork. :eek: Any sugestions? It is...

Any ideas on this. I have store bought stuff and am very dissapionted with it. :curse:

Does anyone know of a cool site to download pics of trains to color? I found 1 and am looking for more that I can color in with all of the crayons and pencils I wasted my money on.

This is a first for me at least...... Now it is as if I have grease on my tracks. I don't. I have no incline at all. It is perfectly level. My train wants to move and is trying hard to do it. All it does though is sit and spin its wheels. :curse: I do not understand this and it is really...

I hope I ask this without cunfusing you all. Still no camera. I am working in n scale and have a bridge that is going to go over a river. I decided to lay a cork roadbed because I did not like the sound of the train running with the track on the styrofoam. Should I have the cork go under the...

I want to do a 4X4 layout and was hoping for some track plan ideas and advice. Thanks in advance, roch

I am thinking about joining U.P.'s train crew. :cool: I just read all about it and I do qualify. Has any of you worked on a train crew or have friends that do? Roch

Just wondering if it possible to put a light inside a train that has no light already? I want to light up the inside of my caboose. Roch

..........duplicate. I just went out to the tracks to get some ideas flowing and here one is. If part of your layout is in a snowy mountain or set in the winter there is no need to ballast your track or weather ties. The only thing showing on the tracks here right now are the tracks. So just...

Any Idea what it would cost to buy an old caboose to live in? I was surfing for train pics and saw one of a caboose all decked out with christmas lights parked on a short section of track with a train speeding by behind it. I would link to it, but it leads to another forum. Not a model train...

Hello, I am working on my first mountain and could use some tips. There is a tunnel going through it. I started its shape with "GREAT STUFF" foam insulation. That just needs to finish curing. Next I was planning to cover that with plaster cloth. Than I was going to paint it and start land...

What is your favorite tool when working on your layout or trains that you use the most and just can't live without? Mine is a flashlight. No matter how careful I am or how many lights from different angles I have going I always manage to drop something very small that never lands where I...

Is there an "n" scale train club in your area? I found one here and have been in contact with the President of it. They meet down the street from me but are looking for a new place to set up shop. I mentioned the building next door to me that is for rent. That would be way too cool if they...

I think I am ready to start soldering. I have not done this before and am not sure. When do you begin to solder your track? Roch

I finally got some money to start my new layout. :excited1::woot1: My first 2 attempts ended in failure. I had no idea about this forum and all of the cool people here back then. Reading posts and getting advice has given me the confidence that I shall suceed this time. I will buy extra foam...

I just was wondering if anyone has ever thought of or done a layout based on a colonized moon? At first I thought that doing a plain moon landscape would be cool for beginers because of the limited color sceme. Than I thought that with a lot of imagination it could turn into something way...

Has anyone seen train layouts at a museum? The one in Chicago kicks ass. :thumb: roch

I wonder how many movies over the years have had scenes with trains in them. That is some heavy trivea. I am about to watch "3:10 to YUMA" roch