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Hey - your LPBs really have been lucky that the adjacent houses didn't catch fire, too! Imagine all your camp of eight houses burnt down.. :eek: :eek: :eek: Great modeling, Bill! :thumb: Ron

This detailing work is awesome, Bill! And this in N scale- WOW! :thumb::thumb::thumb: Perhaps you could make the roof easily removable by adding some stiffening rafters and/or crossbraces. It really would be a shame to hide this fine craftsmanship permanently. Ron

My father-in-law was born in the RR station of Därligen, at the shore of Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland. where his father was the station master. When he was a kid, their dog died exactly at his 10 th birthday. This very aqfternoon he and his brother buried the dog in a small meadow between...

Here in Switzerland we probably have one of the most dense RR nets in the world - and still they are building new lines. These are either high-speed lines (mainly for passenger transport) and even new LOOONG tunnels through the Alps (also for high-sped freight). The political objective is to...

Phew! And I wanted to congratulate you for your BIG luck that your 'old' film still produced pictures with such a snappy b/w contrast! :confused: I once did a b/w documentation of a sawmill in a neighbor village, but then somehow forgot to develop the two films. About three years later I found...

Wow, this is a fantastic website - and not only for Santa Fe fans! Thanks for the link. :thumb::thumb::thumb: Ron

Combat, I think I found what you need: http://www.87thscale.info/wheel_works.htm Hope this helps! Ron

A beautiful example what can be done in a small space! And your landscaping techniques are just great! :thumb::thumb::thumb: Is the little green steamer freelanced or is it a commercial model? (And it is British, I presume... :D) Ron

Another method to light a room is to use halogen spotlights. IMO, in a model RR room they have their place and even can be great to highlight interesting spots on a layout - but they are expensive, need a heavy transformer, and they become extremely hot. Now you can also buy LED replacements...

Thank you for showing us your video. I love your scenery and especially the trick with the mirror. As for the music - it is very interesting that Honegger got the inspiration for his work "Pacific 231" from a French Pacific engine, class '231A', which was used for heavy freight trains. (The...

Although its almost Christmas, there's still no snow on the ground! The bleak morning light reflects from the boiler of the weary C-25, leased to the TC&W from the D&RGW. She is drifting into the Trim Creek yard with the morning ore train, and the crew sure is looking forward to a hot cup of...

Taking the liberty to present something special... Since my other big hobby is collecting and modelling racing cars from the 1950s and '60s, I thought, at Christmas I might count on your tolerance and deviate a little bit from the railroad scene. Here's my favorite, the Ferrari 250 GTO. No it...

It's just fine that everything went well with the installation of these stints. And it is even better that you are at home now for the Holidays. Merry Christmas and all the best for the new year! Ron

Happy Birthday to The Gauge!!! Wow - six years?? I missed the first third of these years - but until now I didn't realize that this happy bunch of model railroaders has been working together for so long a time! Like it has been said before by others - for me The Gauge is still THE forum for...

I love those pics, Chris! The snow on the engine looks simply great - the right amount in the right places! :thumb: We had our first flurry of snow two days ago, but it melted away in no time. (And I'm glad about it! :D) Ron

Oh - that's where these babies are awaiting their end??? I still recall the fuss that was made in the '70s when they repainted those D&H sharknoses in a blue adaptation of the Santa Fe warbonnet scheme and ran exkusrion trains with them. For my eyes these were the most attractive of all the...

Living in Switzerland means that I only see electrics (perhaps apart from very few diesel switchers). Perhaps that's why I prefer diesel and steam on my layout - about 1:1 on the standard gauge division. My H0n3 narrow gauge line obviously is running almost steam-only, apart from one single...

Hi to you all! I had a complete crash of my computer stuff and lost also my connection to the web. :curse::curse::curse: Since my pocket money isn't THAT big, I had to save money and wait a bit until I got a new system together... But now I'm back online - it's like I found a long lost friend...

I'm living in Switzerland, and my native language is (Swiss-)German. Now take the name of my hometown Trimbach: 'Bach' in German means creek, and 'Trim' sounded English enough for me - so the geographic name of Trim Creek was born. Back in the 1970's when I started model railroading in earnest...

Due to room shortage I stopped model railroading in the mid-1970s and went into a 27-year hiatus. At this time I had bought a lot of structure kits for a planned layout - which was never built! :( Whe I restarted a few years ago I laid out my track plans which also included all the (mostly...