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Did you do anything to fix the oversize boxy front part of the tender?? A lot of IHC engines that would otherwise be pretty good looking are ruined by this totally unprototypical "Vanderbilt" tender.

I remember shaking my head when a British writer in "Railway" mag complained that there were only five engines of a particular class preserved !! Still hard to believe no NYC Hudsons were preserved. Northern Pacific 4-8-4 2626 (the "Timken" engine) was scrapped (were any NP Northerns...

CNW had them - oddly, they also had some RS-3's with a high long hood (but low short hood).

I'm sure I have some pics somewhere?? Actually I thought the Mantua 4-4-2 was pretty good looking, the MDC one always seemed a little scrawny by comparison. Here's a link I found to some video of what I'm 99% sure is a radial boiler Mantua 4-4-2 in action...

This is the only pic I could find online. The firebox here is a belpaire, or you could get it with a radial firebox. The parts were interchangeable, the firebox was separate from the rest of the engine. I bought one with a belpaire back in the nineties and ordered a radial from Mantua for a...

Model Power bought Mantua a couple of years ago. They are reissuing at least some of the Mantua engines in their "Mantua Classic" line. Right now I think the 2-6-6-2 is the only one available, they are planning to do the 4-6-2 and I think 0-6-0. These are DCC ready. No word on whether they will...

I used to have orange hair, now it's orange and gray.

Generally for HO, 24" R is considered "convential" curves, 30"R is broad, anything 36"R or greater is "superbroad". Most everything in HO will take a 22-24" curve except for full length passenger cars with body mounted couplers, which need 30"+ curves (and maybe a few large steam engines). An...

With Digitrax system, I start the first engine going forward, then call up the ID of the second engine and start that engine going backwards - so they're both going the same direction. Then I call up the first engine and go thru the steps (as explained in the manual) to add the second engine to...

My granddaughter loves to play with her plastic Thomas and friends, it's made to the same size as the Brio wooden trains. I think I would go with that for your son to play with on his own, and maybe get the HO (technically OO) Thomas, Annie and Clarabel to run on your layout with him (under...

BTW Great Northern used smoothside streamlined passenger cars, not the Budd-type with corrugated sides. Generally railroads that bought the corrugated cars left them in shiny stainless steel and didn't paint them (like the Burlington or Santa Fe for example.) You could check out Con-Cor and...

Ya your local hobby shop will have a number of different colors of paint in spray cans (I like Tamiya myself). The entire seating section on those cars is removeable, just take it out and paint it whatever color you prefer. Tan or a dull yellow would be good, or even primer gray. Apparently...

Al Kalmbach did something similar with his pioneering Great Gulch, Yahoo Valley & Northern, which served "Mintario" a country located between Minnesota and Ontario.

There's always ebay, you can usually find a good deal if you're patient. Don't overlook the plastic Life-Like cars, if they're not right at the edge of the layout they look pretty good. In like a parking lot I'll maybe use a CMW or Busch etc. car or two where they're clearly visibile, and fill...

Ya but 40 years from now you'll be showing off to your grandkids with video and pictures you took now..."Wow Grampa, you really saw an engine in BNSF 'Heritage I' paint scheme running with a warbonnet BNSF engine?? And is that a CNW C-44-9W running with those UP engines?? That's so cool!!"

One of the best paint schemes on the newer widecab diesels was the last 1990's CNW paintscheme like on their C-44-9W's. Too bad there's only I think 3 units left in that paintscheme, rest are UP now. I like the AMD 103's especially in their first Amtrak silver mist paint scheme - reminds me a...

I'd say for a non-brass RTR engine the DMIR 2-10-2 pictured in the Bachmann site looks pretty close to the real DMIR No. 508. I have one on order from when they were first announced, hope to get it soon !! http://www.missabe.com/santafe508.html

Model Power makes some inexpensive furniture, might be worth a look. http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/490-5550

Bachmann yes Spectrum no. Spectrums first steam engine was the Pennsy K-4 4-6-2 that came out in 1987 or 88. The 4-8-4 pictured here was offered for many years by Bachmann but never was upgraded to the Spectrum line.

My concern is that from what I've seen/heard, like on TV programs, books etc. about trains, hoboes etc., is that in recent years hobo's have become much more violent and destructive. Their 1930's counterparts were often just unemployed men looking for work, often as migrant workers in...