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What do you mean by 'CLOSED FROG'? I only know PECO hast two types of frog: electrofrogs and the insulated ones? Ron

Wow, Josh, your method really produces outstanding effects for an asphalt road! I never saw such realistic cracks in a model road surface so far, and also the pothole looks very convincing. (Poor suspensions of the passing cars! :) ) I think I've seen such foam boards in a handycraft shop - and...

Hi all, for the next four weeks I'm up in the Swiss mountains, doing some hiking, photographing (hopefully trains, too!), painting, reading, relaxing... in short, nothing USEFUL! sign1 Most probably I'll have no connection to the internet (at least that's what I think) :(, so I'll leave the...

The owner of this car (if you dare calling that THING a CAR :D) must be a perfect optimist. IMHO the protection again rain, dust, sunrays and theft it offers seems a bit below normal storage room standards! sign1 But it would be a challenge to model such a car skeleton. And the second challenge...

It's great that you are back, Don! :wave::thumb::) Do what the doctors say and, for the time being, leave those trashbags alone! :D Get well, my friend! Ron

Ralph, last year we had in Switzerland one of the most colorful fall seasons I can remember. Now likewise, for this year I wish to you and your wife the most blazing and dazzling autumn leaves you could imagine! :) Take care, enjoy a beautiful fall together, and hopefully many more to come...

Awesome modeling, Tom! The setting, weathering and cluttering is simply perfect! :thumb::thumb::thumb: Ron

Started in N scale. Then I got into detailing and scratchbuilding and switched to H0 for the availability of detail parts. Got bitten by the Narrow Gauge Bug and so I switched to H0n30 (then called H0n2-1/2) narrow gauge (using up my N scale track). After I hiatus I returned an switched...

Thanks for that great link! :thumb::thumb::thumb: The initial slipping of the wheels shows that the Western Maryland Consolidation is nearly at her limit for that grade and train weight. But the engineer obviously is a real throttle artist. He always gets her to regain her footing on the...

I just discovered that the Tie and Plank Mill, which was mentioned above, just now is on sale at Walthers - today it sells for $27.98 instead $39.98 Here is the link to Walthers again. Just in case! (Don't know how long this sale lasts...) Ron PS: Pretty little layout, John! I wonder how it...

Thank you Hobbes for the information, and thanks to 88fan for the update. Don, my best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery. Take your time to get back to normal life, don't try to enforce something. We all on the Gauge are looking forward to have you back online real soon...

This is a great link - thank you very much for posting it. I watched for the last three hours and there was already half the zoology of Africa on the screen. Amazing! :thumb: Ron

Here's another scratchbuilt N scale car: An antique wooden tankcar. It was used for MofW service on my Trim Creek Southern RR. Ron

For towns and scenic features I use the names and/or nicknames of family members. For most industries, shops and other structures I shall use names of model RR friends (among them some Gauge members). The problem is that I haven't built them yet...:oops: (the structures, NOT the friends! :D) Ron

It looks like the majority of the Gauge members are building their layouts in the basement. That's exactly where my layout is, too. (Funny: Everybody here in Europe believes that Americans NEVER have basements below their houses!!! :D:D:D Now here's the prove that the contrary is true...

The first pic shows the main panel of my former N scale layout. Trains were powered by conventional DC. I used two throttle panels (darker blue-gray in the lower corners) and the power was assigned by selector switches on the track diagram (rest of the panel). Turnouts: They were wired in groups...

On the narrow gauge line there will be a shuttle service for my LPB mine workers between Marian City and the two mines. (Probably with a D&RGW C-16 and/or a T-12 pulling one or two passenger cars.) Two trains up and down daily. Plus there is some tourist traffic, interchanging between standard...

Wow, I think I could fill pages when I should list every train I rode on - and still do. Throughout my life I rode almost every train line in Switzerland, starting very early (at the age of four, I think) with my grandfather who worked on the railroad. Then I commuted eight years to school...

Freelanced, too. Since even the theme of my RR is freelanced (transport and refining of Fantasium ore ;)), the whole layout must be freelanced, too. However, I'll try to model a typical Colorado Rocky mountain landscape, and the operation of the Trim Creek & Western RR heavily depends on...

NMRA Bulletin Car Does anybody remember these? NMRA printed the sides of this reefer on a cardboard inlay in its Bulletin and started a scratchbuilder's contest. This was my entry in N scale. (Why a reefer? I believe that the basic tongue-in-cheek idea was: The NMRA Bulletin is such a hot...