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Well, being somewhat of a dinosaur myself, I have never understood the internet. I have marveled ever since I got my first computer at all the information & fun I could access on the web at no cost to me. I have asked many people how it is that somebody is willing to go to all the expense to set...

Time to remotor it. Get a good coreless motor & it will run smooth as glass.

If you plan do do much modeling it will be a GOOD investment. You can buy one at harbor freight & places like that for 60 -70 bucks that will be fine for it. Take along a # 80 bit & see if you can find a chuck that will hold it , some do.

You can find a pin vice at most any hobby shop, Walthers, Micro Mark & many other places. However, drilling with a pin vice is a slow , tedious process. A better soultion would be to get a chuck adaptor as Ezdays suggested and use it in a drill press. Properly used even a # 80 bit will...

Used my six pics before I got to the Engine! Here they are. I just noticed one hand rail has slid out of place! Nuts !! Next time I'll solder them in!

As I'm getting out railroad stuff long in storage I'm coming across a few I built over the years. This is a Tank engine I built on a modified Mantua 0-6-0 chassis. I had been given the engine needing a motor, & the clear view tender had a crack. I remembered a plan in Locomotive...

I can see how that would work. I spent some time attempting to find something flexible to simulate water that I could put a moving "paddle" , for lack of a better description, under to move back & forth to make waves or ripples washing onto a beach. Had some luck with jello as a medium...

In another thread I had mentioned using powdered tempra paint mixed with plaster of paris flicked onto a dampened surface with a tooth brush to make splattered mud. Here is how that looks. Tell me what you think of it.

OK -- I had an E mail wanting to know where the motors came from & to see them close up also. The motors are scratched from mostly plastic. The big dents in the trunk of the Ford came from parts of the dealership roof falling on it, a piece of wood from that is inside the car. The ashes are...

Thats pretty much the idea I had, something along those lines any way -- it could revolve either laterally or vertical behind the silicone falls. Probably one would want a bit wider WF than we usually build . Often they are a very narrow stream.

Some of the grime on these is a result of that same process --age -- sitting as long as they have the dust has coated them & I just leave it there -- easier than cleaning it off & then trying to "Paint it back on." :-P

Here are a few more --- if anyone wants a closer look at some of them , just holler. I plan on building --one day -- a S scale diorama of a junkyard, some where I have a small box full of parts for it -- a bunch of early Ford ( flathead type) transmissions, made from pop rivets mostly ...

Hah!! Thought in meant BAD junky --not Junkyard junky -- right? Here are a few closer shots of some of them. They are mostly Hot Wheels Cars. The model A pick up was made from a sedan, like the red one next to the deuce roadster, the bed was made from pieces of a radio vacuum tube...

How about a scale vehicle thread ? Yes , some really NICE vehicles . Now for something completely different (Apoligies to Monty Python) How about some junky stuff? In S scale .

I didn't say I was going to do -- at least for quite some time. I am just hoping for a brainstorming session. Of course it would be fantastic if someone who was about to add a WF would try it! bounce7

Just to clarify this, I better add that I am not suggesting painting a WF on glass ---we make WF's quite often out of clear sillicone gel . I was thinking along the lines of putting something behind that in a similar fashion to the beer signs.

I have had an idea floating around in my head for some time now about how to add "movement' to a waterfall. NO!---- it does NOT involve real water-- :cry: because we all know ( or should) that real water never looks right in a model. I'm thinking along the lines of this: We have probably...

I'd still like to know if he saved the engine?

Happy to hear that, especially in light of the fact that I just discovered that there is yet another car ( besides the unbuilt boxcar ( that belongs with this train, I had it stashed in an odd box, & it is another shade ! I also stumbled across an OLD brass Mantua 4 wheel bobber caboose...

I'm happy you undersood what I was trying to express. I like to build models a lot more than I do operate a railroad. I had planned on building another railroad ( one that won't get torn down because of adding a baby to the family & needing the room!) when I move to Colorado next spring to...