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It may have been either a rep that the Vegas dealer didn't like or a misunderstanding that caused him to just give up on dealing directly with Horizon. Thanks for the clarification, I didn't realize that they would sell retail. I do appreciate that they protect their hobby shop customers. My...

I suspect that the Getty Center is probably built on some of the most expensive property in Southern California.

No problem, Josh. I sent you another one in response to the one you sent me. As you have probably noticed my pm's get kind of long. Any questions or comments you have, just ask away and I'll try to answer.

The Central Valley tie strips I'm referring to are actually the tie sections that they put under their ready made turnouts, so they are the correct length. It is a bit less expensive to buy the pieces from them and build my own switches as well as the fact that I want to use code 55 and they...

Looks good. I see the cattle car has metal wheels, as Gus said, plastic wheels will leave black gunk on the rails, but even going to metal wheels might not correct the problem. One of the disadvantages of building a layout in the garage if you are not able to seal off the garage door is a...

Thanks for the response. I have one more question specific to my own layout plans. I intend to use Micro Engineering code 55 flex track on a switching layout. There are no commercial switches made with code 55 rail, so I am going to use Central Valley plastic tie strips for the switches with...

I have 3 modeling friends that work for Athearn, and all three tell me that Horizon sells wholesale only to dealers with proof of a retail store. They don't sell to the general public, except for replacement parts, they don't sell to individuals dealing out of their homes or at train shows, and...

Josh, I sent you a pm with more info about the Orange County Module Railroaders including our web site. That was before I saw your latest post in this thread. If you are going to make a module or more than one module of the M&ET, I would encourage you to check us out. Modules work best when...

I'm curious about some of the comments on hand laying with cork. I've used cork with flex track, but found that nails did not hold in cork at all! I had to get the longer nails that Atlas offers and nail through the cork into the plywood sub roadbed. I am not sure what I will use to hand lay...

I can see where that stripe fading from one color to the next would be hard to duplicate. You might be able to take a picture with a digital camera and put it on your computer and photoshop the stripe off of the locomotive to print onto a decal sheet. As far as your problem with the logo and...

Mikey, They were doing a bunch of traditional California music from the 1850's-1900 on the stage. My wife watched that stuff more than I did. I suspect it was the Spanish dancing and music that you would have heard and danced had you been in California in the middle 1800's. California won...

Mike's problem for the bay window caboose is that he lives in the Philippines. Horizon protects their hobby shops by not selling complete products to individuals (they will sell replacement parts to individuals). Apparently there are no hobby shops in that country that sell model train items...

This past weekend the club I belong to, Orange County Module Railroaders did something we have never done in our history which dates beck to a few years before the founding of N-trak. We participated in two shows simultaneously on the same weekend. Part of the club set up and ran trains at the...

I've heard of a lot of clergy being involved with model railroading, but I don't know if the percentage of clergy who are model railroaders vs those who are not model railroaders is any different than the percentage of the general public that are modelers vs the percent who are not. I suspect...

Welcome home, Herc. Thank you!!!

I'd vote for 16x48, it's like hot rodders talking about power, if bigger is better, too much is just about right! Kidding aside, at least 13 x 48 would make sense for resale value. A long room that wide would allow for room for a hallway along one side and space to put in 4 10x12 foot rooms...

I think you want the magnets to attract so that the added magnets strengthen the magnetic field.

The "gizmo" in the passenger window is an "swamp" cooler. They were popular in the desert before mechanical air conditioning became a popular option on new cars.

I just got back from vacation (2800 miles round trip) and noticed that most trucks continue to have split windshields, very few had external sun visors. The difference between the modern truck's split windshields and the older trucks is the modern trucks have a split windshield with either no...

When I got back into model railroading, it was the Bachmann John Bull and Dewitt Clinton that got me interested. I bought a John Bull set, and tried to run it. I came to the conclusion that it is better as a static display. Keeping the tender (powered) coupled to the locomotive has been...