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I really like the Old Town area. It looks like it has real potential. What type of a bridge are you using to span the waterway on the main line near the car float? What did your grades and radius finally turn out to be in the helixes?

BigSteel guessed it... Henry Ford museum in Dearborne Michigan (near Detroit).

Awesome and informative review. Thanks for taking the time to put that together.

Ditto the last three comments... I like choice number 1 without the click through as well. BIGGER IS BETTER.

Wow, that's a heart wrenching story!:eek: What if you were to call Athearn and see what they would charge to "fix it?" Might take a while but it also might not cost as much as you might think.

Wow, it's been a while since I last visited this site and boy have you made some progress. I especially like the schematic you came up with. Nice job using Visio. I'm also interested i working N scale signals for my next layout and found yours interesting. Thanks for the update.

My first layout in Phoenix was also in my garage. While I did experience the temperature swings between winter and summer, my track seemed to handle it allright. I did not glue my track down to the cork and only nailed it in every other hole or so. During the summer, due to expansion, it looked...

Funny how the only thing that changes are the people in the picture! August of 2001...

Kevin, At Michaels, I use a product called Candy Tuft. Check out my tutorial here to see how I used 'em.

We took Amtrak from Toledo, OH to Flagstaff, AZ several years ago. We got held up 4 hours someplace in Kansas due to snow on the way there. We went coach there and had a private room on the way back. A trip I won't forget.

Sounds like maybe you need to think about putting a low mirror behind the layout so you can see the back side of it while you sit and work. Make it low enough so that you can not see yourself but just tall enough to come up as high as the bottom of the monitors.

Sounds like you need to design a floor layout... something you can work on with your feet!!!! Hey, don't laugh, there's people that do that! ...work with their feet that is.

Wow! I'm not sure I'm worthy of the level of praise you have given me but I'm definitely grateful all the same! For quite a while, I was building my scenery with a shotgun effort. A little blast here and a little blast there to get by until I could come back and super detail mini scenes...

Beautiful! I just installed one of those in an F3 A unit and I couldn't be any happier with it.

I'm feeling technologically challenged as I have browsed through both links in your signature and can't seem to find either of those items you are referring to. Can you post a more blatant link for me?

What I'd give for a decent storm. All we ever get down here is sun and heat. I think it's been a month since I even saw a cloud. My wifes in Honolulu on business till Wednesday and my two boys are going to vacation bible school every night this week sooo... at least I get some relief from...

Good eyes! My initial response was, "Well yeh, it's a 2-6-6-2!" Then I got to staring at the pictures a little bit and noticed the trailing truck was not there... DOH! Then it occured to me that when I reassembled the loco last time, I did not put it completely back together as I intended to...

I'd love to have it out on display but I don't want it to be a dust collector as I don't have one of them fancy glass display cases. I've got plans to have a working HO loop soon. Perhaps then, I can run it in DC mode and perhaps that will motivate me to pursue the conversion.

And along the same lines, ...if you hurry to get across the crossing before the train comes.

As is the case in most model railroads! With that said, those are the cleanest streets I've ever seen! I also think you need some traffic bollards around those signal lights 'cause they will probably suffer the wrath of the first drunk driver to pass this way! Nice scenes.