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Some quick background before I put up my shots. My wife is crazy about knitting. We just got back from a cruise for knitters. She asked me before we left, "What are you going to do, dear?" I said, "don't worry about me! It's a cruise to Alaska! I will think of something." Then I read an...

I have a whole roll of tar paper from a small sheep shed I put up. I had to buy a whole roll, even when I only used 16 feet of the stuff. Would that work?

I don't know how to scale you want to go, as some of the models I have seen really scale down the cooling towers. The average height of cooling towers at Hanford, Wa are 500 ft tall and roughly 300 ft in diameter, while the tallest at the N Reactor was 700 ft tall and 400 ft in diameter. Put...

Shaygetz, I really like the idea of using LEDs to light things up. I am not sure, there was no sound when I played the video, but I could have sworn I heard some thumping music coming from that clotheir. Seriously though, nice job. When I get to the point of lighting my layout, I believe I...

I worked at a feed lot for a summer and the scale house was nothing more than a portable house positioned between the loading pens and truck. It had a scale in it, a desk and a door way on both ends. Then when I was working at an apple packing plant, the scale house was an open air/lean to...

jawdropThat is truly worthy of WOW. I have been thinking of an old style wagging signal. I hope I can find one as nice as this is!

Around here, once someone gets their CDL, they are constantly called for hauling steers/hay/sheep/whatever... My wife's cousin got hers to drive the school bus in a very rural area, now she gets called almost every other day with requests to help taking stock to the Tuesday markets. Extra...

Besides the laptop, you should invest in a small Z scale. I have seen 'em for sale, complete with briefcase and scenery for ~$150. Set it up in the passenger seat and let 'er run while you drive along. Or... take along your best engine/rolling stock and a 3 ft piece of track then take pics...

I used some different pieces of track on my last layout and I noticed the same thing. I took my ... I call them my duck bill pliers, they look like needle nose pliers but are flattend out... and crimped the joiners to the smaller track then laid down as small a bead of solder I could. If you...

You know, this sounds alot like what happened to me. In my case, I had mistakenly gotten the wrong foam (beaded) on top of 3/4" leftover tongue and groove flooring Chip Board. Overkill? Just a bit, but the beaded stuff was moving my track all over the place with our wild swings of temps. I was...

Does this count as Working on the Rairoad? I was installing braces on 2 of my 4 sides when I realized that I had not plugged in my battery last night... OOOOOO!!!! I really get upset at myself sometimes.

Sorry to say that I missed it. I joined the forum about a year ago, so I didn't see any changes. I do know that this is the 1st place I go when I have questions regarding any aspect of the hobby. Happy Birthday to The Gauge aka Zealot! George

I do miss not running my trains, but I have such good feelings about this new benchwork/layout. And I did put in a hole in the backdrop of my last layout. I figured I would need something like that as my arms aren't 4 feet long! lol... This time, with the tunnel, I am going to have access from...

A group within our club here have decided to learn scratchbuilding. We count ourselves lucky to have a really good group of builders to learn from. Even though I am not 1/4 of the way finished with my 1st scratch built project, I am already more proud of it than any other building for my RR...

I believe the turnouts are #4 snap switches. If you get a #6 turnout from Atlas, it will match the same curve and everything as from, say, Peco. At least this is what I have been told. The only difference is the switching mechanism.

As for an eye, well, I may not know a lot yet, but I know what I like. As for talent... well, that is most debatable. We kept going back to the book because the benchwork was going together TOO easily. I kept telling Ted there is no way it can be this easy. We have to be doing something...

Oh wow. I would think Front and Center would be a good place.

This is one of the reasons I love this place. Anytime you have a question, not only does it get answered, but it gets answered in 2 or more different ways. Now that I am putting in a lift out, this thread is going to come in VERY handy. Like you, Josh, I have printed out Doc's pics for a...

Thanks for the encouragement and the foam idea. I have 2 full sheets of the blue stuff (the RIGHT stuff this time!) that I am thinking of using. I just went out to the garage to get some icecream out of the freezer and I had to just stand there for a while smelling that wonderful Fresh Cut...

Well Folks, we have started. A buddy from the train club came over this afternoon and we put up some framework/benchwork. First, let me delve into my choice of book... This book is a must, if you are thinking of building L-Girder style of benchwork. I consider this the Holy Grail of...