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I posted this on RR-line too, but thought I'd pass it on here too. I bought four Branchline Yardmaster USRA 40' boxcars at the Montvale show yesterday, and I thought I'd offer my first impressions of them. I didn't build any of them yet, so these are just kit impressions. I did't compare...

I've got an '89 Mustang 5.0, I bought it brand new in '89 for the princely sum of $14,000. I called it my five-liter Chevy-eater. I had the car about two weeks when I dusted (and I mean DUSTED) a 300Z turbo, which cost twice what my car did. The guy pulled up next to me at a red light, gave...

Shamus, Didn't you say you were looking for the copy of RMC with your article in it? Did you get a copy? If not I'll try to get to a magazine shop that might have a copy and buy you one and mail it to you. (Sorry, you can't have mine!) :D

I've never tried laying a stub switch, but one thing that comes to mind for throwing them, especially the three-way, is a manual screw-drive. Attach a nut to a rod, attached to the "points" or whatever you call them on a stub turnout. Thread a piece of threaded rod thru it and anchor it so...

I have "Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching" on the wall of my cubicle, I need the reminder sometimes. Put another way: The best time to plant a shade tree was 50 years ago. The second best time is RIGHT NOW. Thanks for the...

Welcome Newtrain! For track and turnouts for a beginner, it's hard to beat Atlas, they make good track at a reasonable price. There are other brands, some are more expensive. There's also track and roadbed together, which I've never used so I won't comment on it. Stay away from the old...

Pat, It's basically a tractor (like on a payloader) with rail wheels, you could drive it on the road, put it on the rails, lift the road wheels and use to to move cars around. There was an article in the May 1985 MR about scratch-building a trackmobile in HO. IIRC they used a flea to power...

Congratulations, good luck, and whatever else!

Val, I'll help you out here if you'd like, I'll research how to kitbash a NW2, get all the required parts, sound decoder, etc and start building. Before I get halfway thru the project Broadway Limited will release theirs! It works EVERY time! Just like my Dad used to make a bus come by...

Dash, I LIKE that idea, and never thought of it. Perhaps even a small push-button SPST switch attached to a vent, push, lights go on, push again, lights go off. Kinda like the button on top of a pen. Since, given my layout plan, I'd sometimes have to reach a bit to get to a car, it's best...

For the record, my MDC Harriman cars will take a pair of AAA's side by side in the roof without showing thru the windows, and I could probably hide two side-by-side pairs, one at each end. AA's are a tighter fit and they'd hang down a bit, and the holders couldn't go on the sides of the...

Like so many of my ideas, this seemed like a good one until I got into the details. I think I'll put my effort into the layout for now, maybe sometime down the road I can worry about installing lights so my LP commuters can read the LP newspapers on the way to their LP jobs.

I guess I didn't know as much as I thought I knew about reed switches, I thought you could touch a magnet to it, turn on, touch again, turn off. Sigh.

I guess my question involves the connections to do the recharging, can I just hook the dead batteries up to a voltage source to recharge? What voltage? As I said in my original post, this is well down the line for me, I still have to get the layout built, but I'd really like to see lit...

I'm just thinking out loud on this one, have enough other projects to keep me busy, but I hope what I'm thinking of is possible for the future. I'd like to light my passenger cars, but don't want to take power from the rails to do so because I'm doing DC and that means when the train stops...

Looking great Pat! Did you scratch-build those steps to the loading dock or are they pre-fab? If scratch-build I'd love to know your technique, mine always seem to come out looking like something on a haunted house.

Pat, SS Ltd also has some windows, at least in HO (are you still doing N or did you make the switch?)

Brakie, Kinda reminds me of a story my father told. Bear in mind that he told this when I was maybe nine years old, so I may not have the details correct. He worked at a warehouse, and they got a carload of steel in. The engine spotted the car, but they had to move it with the crane so...

You can also buy PC board ties from the same place you get the fastrack jig: http://www.handlaidtrack.com

Ah, gentle hearted ladies like Val and my wife are the reason I always end up boiling the lobsters...... Personally, I have three cats, so my mouse problems are limited to cleaning up afterward on the rare occaision one comes in (I think it's happened twice in the past 10 or 12 years)...