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I can't think of a better place for my 4000 th post, than here. Your photo of 1630 shows all her drivers in place. The last time I saw her, the rear driver set had been pulled to repack the journals. She may now be ready to steam again. The IRM's Shay, had all her tubes and flues pulled last...

I'm hoping to see the 1630 running again this year. She's been in the shop for too long! Very nice shots! :thumb::thumb:

The Y-3s the Pennsy got, ended up in switching service. The book, "Norfolk & Western Railway's Magnificent Mallets the Y Class 2-8-8-2s", by William E. Warden, TLC Publishing, Inc. , Route 4 Box 154, Lynchburg, Virginia 24503-9711, has lots of information, and some great photos of the Ys...

Well, I finally found my way here. That farmer back down the road a'piece, couldn't remember whether to turn left, or right at the crossroads with the white picket fence. wall1 I'll have to tell him, next as I see him,that you really can get here from there! :mrgreen: The MILW MP15ACs, as I saw...

Viaducts, and trestles, can be built on a curve, but bridges have a tendency to always be straight sections. A "bridge" that carries a curve, may be something like a double track bridge with a single track curve through it, and relatively short. To carry a long curve over a wide valley, or...

I haven't had much of an interest in ore cars, never did a mine, so I'm not completely familiar with the MDC ore cars. That said, there are always things that can be done to "dress up" cars. Replacing cast on details with separate castings, and wire hand grabs and ladder rungs, is a start...

Timber Times, is apparently not a high volume sales item, and most hobby shops do not carry it. The one I worked at, until it went into bankruptcy, carried it, which is how I came to be aware of all the good stuff it had. It is a quarterly publication, and the rates depend on location, and...

I looked at some of my unbuilt kits, and there wasn't much there that would be helpful. The MDC/Roundhouse 0-6-0, has the right length boiler and cab, but is a straight boiler, rather than the tapered boiler of the B&S. The stack, and dome locations are very close, the sand dome just forward of...

I can't remember the exact difference in feet, and inches, but the MP15 wheelbase, and therefore, chassis is about two scale feel longer than the SW1500. To use the MP15, you will have to lengthen the kit body, either by extending the frame, or by adding an extension to the carbody.

These words, though spoken repeatedly over many years, are the real secret to successful model building, and are only realized after many trials and errors. We each must learn that wisdom in our own ways, in our own times, and we each will come to repeat those words again to someone, in answer...

I recall seeing an article on sugar plantation railroads, where there were photos of cane being harvested. I believe it was in a Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette. Photos such as that would give you the relative size, and shape, of the cane, compared to the people harvesting it. You would then...

:cool: but climbing a pile of gypsum, in a "bobcat like bulldozer" isn't any less insane. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Not well enough to earn a living at it, but, yes, I can. :wave:

Fun, is what you have, doing the things you enjoy. As long as you can keep a roof over your head, and food on the table, you can have fun. When I first got into this hobby, not only did I not have any money, there wasn't all the finely detailed locos and rolling stock that there is now. Brass...