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Belg, I recommend switching over to MT's as more and more locos and other equipment are coming equipped with either MT's or MT compatible couplers such as Atlas' Accumates. It can be an expensive proposition and can produce "wallet-shock" if done in large amounts at one time. I would also...

Scooby, I found myself in the same position during this past year. Something I had build caught the fancy of several other modelers and I ended up building three more and selling them. Consider it a tribute to your modeling skills and benefit from the interest of others.......... sell it...

I have a Fleischmann 4-6-0 and I would like to replace the Rapido coupler on the tender with a Unimate coupler. However, access to the coupler pocket remains a mystery. There is a plate covering the powered axles, but no apparent screws holding it in place. Before I do something which ends up...

Blake, That is one fantastic looking milk car! Great job. Dick

I have three of the Spectrum 2-8-0's with nary a problem. Dick

I guess, I too, would have to credit/blame several people for my railroading habit. When I was a wee lad, my Uncle Bill used to take me train watching. He was more a railfan than anything else but he stirred the interest in me. Then, in 1949, when I was 9, my older brothers and sister gave me...

That would be great for people who didn't like heights!

Thanks, Sumpter.... interesting to note different locations for the BAR and number. Dick

TC, styrene plugs fit the bill, for sure. No photo of it on a train but, here's a crew on their way out to pick up the Searsport consist and head for the coast. Dick

Sumpter, I'd love to have that B&A 4-4-0 on my layout! Dick

Great news, Dick, that it all went well. Speedy recovery! Dick

Oops! This is the other side. Dick

And, another.

I rushed and it shows in places but, nothing that can't be touched up. I need to get a decal set to finish the lettering....... of course, the appropriate decals are no available in N scale, so what is available will have to do. The most important result is the proof that the troop sleepers...

Congratulations to you both. Dick

Almost done. Needs paint, decals, and couplers. Dick

Thanks for all the suggestions, friends. After much thought, I opted to plug the windows with 1 mm styrene. Each piece was cut almost to size and then (painstakingly I might add!) filed and "snadded" to the point where they could be pushed firmly and snugly into the opening. There appear to...

Thanks, Jim..... I have that issue and I have been "studying" it for a couple of months. A lot of the construction methods will work well in N scale. Dick

Welcome to the Gauge, Alan...... a great place to be! Dick

David, I have some of that Squadron Green putty (white too) and that was one of my original thoughts......... or even trying to fill in the entire opening with it. But, I dismissed it out of hand because, (1.) experience has shown me that I do not work well with the stuff, and (2.) I would be...