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Just a thought - if you really want a longer mainline, you could make an oval-shaped helix where the taconite plant is in your plan, and then go up to a second level and have an ore/taconite loading area there. Of course as an iron ore modeller myself, I know long ore trains and grades don't...

Keep in mind there's supposed to be a difference!! Standard gauge rails were much MUCH heavier/bigger than what the narrow gauge railroads used. Part of the fun of narrow gauge modelling is showing the difference in size between the bit standard gauge equipment and the petite narrow gauge trains.

My understanding (from another RR forum) is that they aren't doing one this for 2007.

I've converted their SD-38 with a similar set-up, it's pretty easy. The attached speaker fits in the pre-installed enclosure, and the decoder itself drops right in place. I did remove one weight in the SD-38 body to make sure there was enough room for the decoder, it might have fit in if I had...

I had American Flyer S as a little kid, just an oval of snap-track (yes they used to make S-scale snap track) a 4-4-0 and a couple of cars, then I had an early N scale set in the late sixties that didn't last too long. At 13 (1971) I got a Tyco HO set for Xmas, my Dad was the mailman for...

Lots of different scales, and you left out 1:24 scale:eek:. Many early LGB modellers in the US used 1/2"=1' for their modelling. IIRC 1:32 scale is the correct size for No.1 gauge track (which is what G gauge track is). LGB used 1:22.5 to use the track to represent European meter-gauge track.

Running on DC power your best bet would be to get three Atlas GP's and use them together exclusively, they run great and in my experience Atlas locos all run very close to the same speeds. As Brakie says above, LL models seem to be very inconsistent - except maybe for the E-units.

N scale is great if you want to model 'big time' operations, 2-3-4 engines pulling 40-50 cars. If you're doing a logging line, you might find operating / switching etc. to be easier to do with HO - although the running quality of N has increase lately in the last decade or so. Still, "big time"...

Bachmann was in the US many years before they started making and selling UK equipment. Bachmann Spectrum US models run around $150-250 list price but of course much less by mail or internet (Train World is selling Spectrum undec 4-8-2's for $80 in their MR ad.) Sound equipped engines like a BLI...

Re G scale trains, I suppose it would depend on who we classify as a model railroader. 40 years ago garden railroads were all but nonexistant, with G scale becoming popular in the eighties that part of model railroading has had an incredible boom. However I don't know how many of those people...

That's true - but on the other end of the spectrum, I know when I started in model railroading in 1971, no one would have believed the No.1 gauge boom that took place when LGB started making American narrow-gauge equipment!!

Interesting thread!! Going back to the original question, I think by 1860 the term "Standard Gauge" referring 4'-8-1/2" trackage was pretty well established. I suspect you could find it in railway publications and official rail documents of the time in common usage. In some areas local...

You'll like them !! Just to clarify, Stewart started in the eighties and at that time used Athearn motors/drive train. Around 1995 they started using Kato drives/motors, I believe they lately have developed their own motors etc. Since they started using Kato stuff, Stewart has generally been...

Marklin in Germany c. 1900 labelled their difference size/gauge of trains by numbers, IIRC 1,2,3,4 with No.1 Gauge (the size track LGB uses now) being the smallest. When they came up with a size smaller than No.1, their only choice was to go with No.0 ("zero" or "zed" in the UK), which came to...

Let's say you have a continuous mainline, so trains can go around and around without any "supervision". Let's say you also have a DCC system that right now you only have one throttle for - like a Digitrax Zephyr with one built-in throttle control. You could take control of locomotive 300 and...

What I said (or was trying to say) was you can't control two trains with two power packs in the same block. Of course you can have different engines in different blocks controlled by different power packs - but the original question was about running a doubleheader, controlling each engine...

By "Pullman" I assume you mean the car was built by Pullman-Standard?? "Pullman" generally refers to Pullman sleeping cars, which haven't been around for quite a while outside of museums.

In DC you're not really controlling each locomotive, you're controlling a section or "block" of track. When you put power to the track, all the engines in the block are going to move - all the same direction, if they're wired up correctly. There is no way to isolated and control one engine with...

When in doubt go with the Stones and "Paint It Black"!! I usually take the weight and use a spray can to paint it. The plastic parts under the Athearn car are black so it kinda blends together better, plus black helps hide the fact that the Athearn cars aren't that well detailed underneath.

I'll be on it Sept 15th, hope to get some good pics / video then and during the other movements - some of them will be only a few miles from my house.