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This morning the death toll is at 17 with 135 injured and 85 still in area hospitals. What I find curious is no none knows why the 2 trains were on the same track at the same time. A few years ago when the BNSF freight hit a Metrolink train in the early morning hours, they knew almost...

I've heard numbers from 15 -20 fatalities in the past 1/2 hour on the local news stations, but there are quite a few in local hospitals in critical condition, so the news will probably get worse.

Don't forget to put on some sort of lock on the entrance door from the inside so that no one can open the door when those drop down sections are up and the layout is in operation.

Josh, Micro Scale does custom decals from customer supplied artwork. If you have the Walthers Blue star decal sheet, You could take it to Micro Scale with your permission letter to see how much they charge for a "one off" custom decal run. The other method would be to get the decal film...

Walthers code 83 (Shinohara) has #6 1/2, #7, #7 1/2, & #8. # 6 1/2 uses 20" & 24" radii, #8 is 32" & 36". The others are in between. Peco lists curved turnouts, but they don't give very clear radius info in the Walthers catalog. I think you can use CVT tie strips with the code of rail of...

Josh, I'm not familiar with the LBF kits, but I have been so frustrated with plastic details that I've decided never again will I install a plastic grab or brake line on any kit. From now on I will make grabs and brake rigging out of piano wire or brass wire. Here is a site for small hardware...

I hope the steam engines will be kept in running condition by the railroad. It may be cost prohibitive to run them day in day out even for just the summer months as they have done previously, but it would be nice if they could schedule 2 or 3 steam weekends a year when the steam would be...

How do you get into the room and into the center of the layout?

Steve, you may need to give the solvents more time to dissolve the old glue, or it may be that you need to disslove more of it at one time. If a section of wall or roof is glued on 3 or 4 sides, all of the sides need to be dissolved at the same time. You might also want to try Plastruc cement...

Josh, there is no reason to use 4 tracks for your helix. Putting a couple of switches in to tie the 2 red tacks into one and the 2 blue tracks into one will narrow your helix considerably. Then as you bring a train up from staging, you can use the switch to direct the train to whichever track...

Andrew's idea may be the best one. Super glues will cure almost instantaneously. Then after everything is in place and set up, you can reinforce it with the styrene and 5 minute epoxy without having to try to hold everything together and in alignment for 5 minutes. Somewhat off topic, but...

Sweet model, Doc! I really enjoyed reading through your tutorial, and the pics were great as usual. Of course the setting is one of the nicest layouts I've ever seen pictures of.

There are really 2 reasons why people recommend against the smaller turnouts with larger locomotives. The first is that it just doesn't look as good as it would going through a broader radius curve. This may not be an issue if your layout space restricts you from the ideal or in the case of...

I think your problem will be either in the track or an interference problem with the locomotive. The answer will not be to make 3 axle trucks into 2 axle trucks. A couple of years ago I wrote an article for the "Tips &Tricks" section of the Gauge titled "My train derails at..." I intended it...

Cut a piece of .015 styrene to match the shape of the Central Valley turnout and glue it to the bottom of the Central valley turnout's tie strip. Be careful not to get any glue near the throw rod. You don't need to glue all of the ties, just a couple at each end to locate the shim in place...

I went to both of your links. The first one was not in English, so I didn't understand everything, but it listed the set as a "Rocco Digital Starter Set." I think that probably means that it is a dcc set with all of the necessary equipment to set it up and run with digital command control...

Great to see the progress you are making. Looking really good, so far!

I think we sometimes forget that the Gp 50's and 60's came out originally with turbo charged 3000 horsepower prime movers designed to move mainline freight at mainline speeds. When these older units get downgraded to local switching duties, the extra horsepower is not needed and the savings...

As long as the remote control locomotives are restricted to inside of the yard operation, the only ones endangered by them are the railroad workers. What I find scary is when the railroad brings the remote controlled locos out to work industrial trackage along side of and crossing public streets.

I missed that show again this year. I wanted to go, but just could not spare the time this year. For prototype modelers in So Cal, that is probably the best show of the year in So Cal.