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Printing onto sticker stock instead of making decals is a great idea! What a timesaver.

I scaled the images in Photoshop. There wasn't any distortion, but when printed with the inkjet onto the decal paper, you can see a little pixelation from the printer, if you look really close. I'll probably use homemade plates for the majority of cars that get plates, and the Microscale...

I've made HO license plate decals, just sized em & printed on white decal paper. Pretty quick & easy.

A great tool to use for shaping foam is a curry comb. These are used for grooming horses, and can be found at tack stores. There are a few different kinds, the ones we want for model railroading use are metal, with serrated rings, like in the picture. Also, another excellant option for foam is...

I agree with Russ - if you really want to be prototypical, try to find a similar instance on the prototype you're modelling. The UP / former SP that I model around Colton & Fontana, CA has plenty of examples of the switch stands located between the tracks, as you have drawn, though I've noticed...

I would go with warm-white LED's, though O-scale is large enough you could use tiny incandescant bulbs, too. This months RMC (Railroad Model Craftsman) has an article on passenger car lighting, with surface-mount LED's, and the article highlights their usefullness in replicating the even...

Speaking of recognizable (and dated) silouhettes, how about this one still in contemporary use: the road signs indicating a nearby train station.

Here's the info from MR, which should be applicable for whichever location you decide on: this is a B&M (not B&O) standard from 1960; on tangent track, low switch stands would be mounted 6'-9" from track centerline, and high stands 9'-3" from centerline. Since you are looking at a curved...

If someone were to use diesel as the fuel in an oil-fired steam locomotive instead of fuel oil, wouldn't that make it a steisel fitting the above description?

Good point about the false choice

Or you could add the 3rd option and keep things prototypical and use gas turbine as the other option. I doubt the vast majority of the population has heard of UP's Big Blow.

I imagine that if a survey were done which asked a random sample of the population to make a quick drawing of a train, they would draw a steam engine, though the majority of participants had probably not seen one operating in real life. It would probably be a (really poorly drawn) 4-4-0.

I don't have the issue in front of me, but the November '07 (most recent) issue of Model Railroader has part one of an article by Paul Dolkos on detailing the right of way, and there is a chart with standard distances for lineside items, from the centerline of track, for the B&O. Due to...

Great pics - all the more reason I need to get my modules started soon

The only actual trains I plan to model (and they'll be shortened) are a few of the MOW trains I see regularly, which don't seem to get broken up much (and won't be on my layout). These are a ballast train (2 engines on each end, and a lot of 'Herzog' ballast hoppers), and a continuous...

This site offers thin plastic fluting: Pullman-Standard Fluting they also have Budd style fluting. Chris

Using a putty knife with a nice clean blade, wider than the sidewalk, will goo a long way in helping you achieve a smooth surface from the get-go. For the cobblestone effect, I would look into Brawa's texture materials.

Sounds cool, I can't wait to see the pics. As for you getting outta' there pronto & not wanting to hang around for an hour, I don't blame you :)

Since you've seen these pools in person, maybe you've seen otherwise, but all the photographs I've seen of the pools for spent fuel glow bluish-purple, from Cherenkov Radiation, like in the attached photo. Maybe a white LED, tinted with appropriately colored 'stained glass paint' could achieve...

They come with the gold honeycomb rims, and I have 2 of 'em that still have those. As for the smokey...take a look below. Now I just have to add some drivers (as has been discussed in another thread here) :wave: