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You might want to consider adding a second level. I am in the process of doing something like that myself. I just like the idea of having a train running around near the top of the mountain while a couple of others are working their way across the gorge down below. John Allen did this on his...

What do you call the very front of the steam locomotive? You know the part with the headlight? Is it the boiler backhead? And is there a thread somewhere that covers and defines model railroading nomenclature? Like what is a: 1.Truck 2.Driver 3. etc.,etc.,etc., ???????

God bless you Roger! I guess I will have to come to Indiana and buy you a beer. I moved the tender back to the second hole and that did the trick. I didn't even notice there was a second hole because my son-in-law was helping me take it out of the box and put it together. It came with an...

Here's a link to an eBay BLI locomotive just like mine. The seller has some great pics of it and shows it on both an 18" & 22" radius. Hmmm? Thanks for all the words of wisdom. So if you'll excuse me now, I have to get busy and try all your ideas. Thanks...

I checked the play in the drivers and there seems to be some play. Just how much play is needed is hard for me to determine. It's a shame these good expensive steamer models are so "persnickedy."I tried again very slowly this morning and noticed that the wheels begin to spin on this curve and...

Santa Claus gave me a Broadway Limited for Christmas, a 4-6-4 New York Central. It keeps derailing. I tired to run it on two different sets of track: one was a simple oval of Bachmann EZ track that my wife and I have running through her Christmas village in our living room and the second was on...

Internet Trains offers a Walters Conerstone HO Scale Walking Beam "Horse Head." I call it an oil rig pump jack; same thing. I thought about getting one for my layout as it will fit in anywhere. You see the real thing in any field out in the middle of nowhere. $21.73 without the motor.

Gosh Wayne, I almost thought that diesel was real. Good job!

I'm in the 0 to 10% category. I have a 9' X 11' train table that was given to me. It was a plan in some book with a river running thru the middle and 1% grades already incorporated here and there. I am not following the original track plan as I want to add a second level. Not sure how to...

Making rubber latex molds for tunnel portals, etc is my thing. I have been copying John Allen's portals and viaducts by making a HO size "form" out of wood and styrofoam. The styrofoam is the curved shape of the tunnel entrance surrounded by the wood frame about 3/4 inch thick. Cover a piece of...

Oh that is so sad! A Christmas Village without a train. About three years after my grandson was born, my wife finally succumbed to my suggestions for adding a train. Suddenly she had this overwhelming desire to add the train.

Now if you really want to get technical, you can start debating the quality of the different brands of nickel silver track. For example, I purchased 100 sections of Model Power NS flextrack for considerabily less than Atlas NS. When comparing the two, the Model Power has more of a bronze color...

That's a shame that 41 people viewed your photo and didn't acknowledge your time and trouble that captured a moment in time----just like John Allen. Keep up the good work. It's a nice study in contrast.

Oh Gosh! I was just thinking about what could happen if there was a glitch in the system and the stargate functioned. I love the whole idea and especially your lights. I guarantee I will be paying more attention to the stargate the next time I see it on the Sci-Fi channel.

Nice pics. I enjoyed them. Are you going to add the tall weeds growing between the tracks leading up to the shed? No, let's see. That won't work. It might cause problem with your locomotive.

There's a neat picture of a lift out section of buildings in the book Model Railroading with John Allen. Also a lift out mountains in Scenery for model railroads. Some of these pictures will appear in other model railroad books and magazines. I don't think they tell you exactly how to do it as...

I'm an building a HO bridge from scratch and I am at the point to consider the nuts and bolts. I used black 1" panel nails on the last bridge that I built from scratch. I reduced their length as needed. I was just wondering what all you master modelers use for nuts and bolts and rivets. I guess...

I think you should do whatever you want. It's your layout and you have to be true to yourself. I said something to my wife about her using an HO train set in her Department 56 Christmas Village and she said that she did not want the larger On30 scale which would be more in scale because it would...

Hmmm, I wonder what kind of solvent it is. I could buy a quart and refill my small bottle. The same coworker told me to refill my Jet De-Solv with Acetone. It works very well to loosen and remove CA glues when I glue my fingers together or to something. Don't you just hate that?

A coworker told me to try some of the clear liquid adhesive that comes in a small bottle at the local hobby shop. He said you just put it on plastic, put the pieces together and its glued. I found different brand names and purchased Ambroid ProWeld but it didn't work for me. The cap uses a small...