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0o0o0o0o0o0 *drooling eye's* :) Ugh, I'm ready to restart my KCS fleet. Gotta love that road. It look's as if the yellow strip is reflective. I tried doing that on a few but it didn't turn out. I'm trying to figure when KCS stopped using the yellow and black stripe on the step latter's and went...

No, I don't know what is wrong. I'm able to get the wires soldered to the motor contact strips which are brass but I can't get solder to adhear to the wheel pickups. I've tried light sanding, filling, I even used a small file and scratched it full of grove's to give it some "bite" but still...

I'll try that. It's a Kato so I have removed the pickup's from the trucks so I wouldn't damage the trucks from the heat.

Thanks trainnut. I tried that but it's not working. I'm sitting here working on it right now but it just doesn't want to take.

I'm working on a locomotive problem and I'm having trouble getting the solder to adhear to the truck pickups. The pick up's are brass and I have no flux and no way to get any. Any Idea's?

I like a lot of the new locomotive's coming out. There just a bit over priced like the MP-15AC I bough a couple years ago when it first came out by Atlas. That hurt. They are nice. I put mine though a lot of work and it's still going strong. Plus Atlas locomotive's look fantastic with Sergent...

Well, I don't know about a design on hand because I threw out all mine after I moved and lost a 11x17 foot room. Something to say sense no one else has replied on it yet. 6' would be better because of the 50+ foot locomotives and car's so 22" curves won't fit in 4'. However, being 6x16' there...

http://ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=6099678&nav=menu50_2_3 SHREVEPORT, LA Man Thrown From Car After It's Hit By Train Shreveport Police and firecrews are at the scene of a car/train accident that happened just before 1 PM at the intersection of Hollywood Avenue and Mansfield Road...

You know, I saw in one of the MR issues on a layout with a car scale. The scale works on the same princeble but a little different. Those actually use full switchs but the four rails are very close together like above. I don't know why they did it like that because it doesn't really do anything...

I can't get any of my SD40-2's to take 18's. It's mostly the leade wheel on both the front and back trucks that jump because of the lack of side play and/or turning play. If I can't get those to run then I surely can't get anything bigger to. Besides running long 6 axle units on anything less...

Jr., I found out one of the prefered methods is taking the car and completely cleaning it in warm water with dish detergent. Make sure you don't leave finger prints on the car so try and wear some gloves if you can. Let it air dry then spay a coat of dull coat on it. This will give the car some...

Well, not to jump the gun but models are built somewhat like the real thing. Gears have a reduction ratio. Smaller locomotives has smaller reductions because of their size to move heavy load under slow speed and larger locomotives pull load under faster speed. I know I am wrong but someone...

Yea, as an HO modeler I buy typical out of the box Athearn kit's then dress every detail I can find into them then add weight. It really makes a huge difference. Take an AC4400 then add 6 1/4oz lead weights and you end up reducing a train that would take 4 untouched Athearns to 2 without putting...

I strongly disagree with elastic thread. Over a short period it will lose it's elastic-ness (it's always been hard for me to say the right word for it) and sag which will then look bad. The best way with the best results are the regular black thread with ACC with an accelerator. There is a...

ROF LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's cute. Thing is the word "cute" doesn't exsist in my vocabulary.

Well, I know there aren't any trains in wrapping under the tree but the trains are rolling notch 5 under the tree this morning.:thumb: Merry Christmas everyone.

Well, I've seen a couple and they are prety much plastic brass really. Of course as stated they don't have every single detail that brass does but better than most. Tower55 is just the plastic division of Overland brass models. I hope to get one of each of the heritage units one day.

Well, here in the Shreveport/Bossier City area SW1500's were used to pull a string of about 30-35 loaded gon's across town and deliver them to a concrete plant. I've mostly seen only two of them on this run for many years and on occasion they would run GP30 or 38's to do the service but now it's...

I dunno. I like Proto 2000 wheels but then Kato came out with their roller bearing rucks with the spinning end caps. Nice. Yes. But as I venture father into prototype modeling I'm thinking seriously about changing out to Proto87 true scale wheels and sprung trucks. I have one pair and I like...

I'm surprised I didn't get in trouble today at work because they opened up one of the rail dock doors and they were switching cars at the plant I didn't know it until I saw two guy's wearing safety vest's were standing there talking to the guy who had hired me and I saw the sitch list laying on...