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Absolutely awesome! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

If you're looking for a bit of whimsey, how about mounting an outhouse on it for the comfort of your train crews. Maybe with a sign on the door saying "Use only while crossing trestle". Or how about a small crane car?

DC for me, for a few reasons. Mostly, I have a bunch of old steam engines that would be a pain to convert to DCC, and I do want to use them. Plus, my layout will be a single-operator layout (me), so multiple trains running at one time isn't an issue. For those reasons I can't justify the...

Looks great! I just have to tell this story: My Dad, who was a joker (and the apple didn't fall far from the tree), was doing work on his house once and rendered the bathroom inoperative. For the few weeks the bathroom was out of order, he put up an outhouse in the back. This was in the...

I'm basically doing post WW-II era. I really wanted to model the war years, but my major problem has been vehicles for that era, I can find plenty of 50's era stuff, plenty of '20's era, but no late 30's-early 40's. Still, I may just imagineer it, that way I could run some troop trains...

Pat, I'm doing OK. During the summer I tend to do less train-related stuff, seems I spend most of my weekends doing yard work. Plus I spent a week in the Poconos last week with my in-laws, a total of 17 people ranging from 2 months old to 76 years old. Went fishing every day for six days...

Count me as another craft paint user. I get them at Michael's for $1 or $2 a bottle, the colors I use more of (like black for weathering washes and brick red for, ummm, bricks) I get in the bigger bottles for maybe $3 or $4. Whenever I've needed a specific color I've always found one that's...

Iron Goat: Go to www.bachmantrains.com, go to "ask the bach-man" and post your question there. It's a safe bet someone's done it.

I have a question for you folks who've done resin casting. I'd like a moderate number (say six to twelve) of each of a couple types of passenger coaches to haul my LPB commuters to and from work. I found a couple prototypes in Carston's book on passenger cars. There're no commercial models...

Trainclown, Another method is to solder the rails to ties made from PC board material, you don't need one every tie. Look at www.handlaidtrack.com , they sell jigs but you can do without the jig, just use gauges to keep everything where it belongs.

Hey, I had the Chattanooga Choo Choo when I was a kid! One thing I recall was there was a little gear attached to the motor shaft which would sometimes spin on the shaft, and the motor would run but nothing would happen. A VERY small amount of ACC (super glue) will hold the gear to the...

While waiting for my 12-inch-to-the-foot commuter train this morning, someone I see there every morning was wondering how close the tolerances are on standard gauge track. I know the gauge is 4' 8 1/2", but how far off can they be and still be considered "in gauge"? Anybody know?

Micro Mark (www.micromark.com) has chain in 20 and 24 links per inch. It's not bicycle-type chain but ordinary link chain.

Hey Pat, if you find a good one let me know, my Chopper is getting a little worn. All that balsa you know! I considered getting a Chopper II (the one with the aluminum base and the relaceable self-healing pad to cut on). My biggest problem is I have a gouge in the base so I don't always get...

I got some responses from RR-line, basically saying "don't waste your money", so I won't be getting them. I'll stick with hand tools.

My wife wants to know what I want for my birthday, and I came across these two saws: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=42307 and http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=46379 Does anyone here have either of these saws? How are...

I posted this in RR-line too, if this looks familiar that's why! Well folks, I just built the first of my Yardmaster boxcar kits, so I thought I'd tell you about it. I got four of these at a train show last Sunday and on another thread I said how nice they looked, but I hadn't yet built...

Sorry I didn't catch this sooner, belated happy birthday Robin! :wave: :thumb: I'll bet you'll have more fun with the boxes your presents came in than with the presents! :D :D :D :D

As I said in another thread on this forum, I'm impressed with the Branchline Yardmaster kits. Those are the less expensive kits, I paid $8 each for my boxcars and they come with metal wheels and knuckle couplers. Haven't gotten around to building any yet, but they don't seem to be much more...

IAS604: I have some P2K gons, and I'm impressed with them too. What impresses me most about the yardmasters is the combination of nice detail and low price, a combination you don't find often. I could easily pay the $30 I paid for my four kits for one kit from another manufacturer and really...