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The problem in the modern era is that anything interesting is stuck inside the carbody. Even the new experimentals (Green Goats and such) don't show anything unusual to the observer. And what unusual items did we get in the diesel era? K-M hydraulics were a normal design in Germany. Baldwin...

I think those might be places where CP has agents or offices.

I think it matches the turnout up to a number of standard lengths of track or it spaces out a crossover to match a standard spacing. I find that Mr. EZ gives petty poor explanations of what you can do with his track -- the 90 degree crossing has little bits as well, but no explanation of how you...

I have been a railway fanatic/bore all my life. At the age of 2 we spent a summer with my Granny in Edinburgh and by the end of the summer I knew which tram to take to the museum where I could push a button to see the wheels on a locomotive go round. (I'm ashamed to say that I've forgotten now...

To make matters easier, you probably don't need to join the guard rails.

Has anyone been watching Good Morning America this week? They've promised 50 days and 50 states on a train (not sure how they'll do a couple of them). Today was Niagara Falls. (I don't get up that early, but I'm taping it.)

Josh: I've noticed that curves look sharper viewed from the outside and broader viewed from the inside. This is good news for a shelf layout. You may still think your rolling stock looks funny on the sharp curves.

Jaques: There is a shop in Hamilton called Modeller's Choice which does a good business in TH&B models. My second choice would be Credit Valley Railway in Misissauga.

Kevin: did you just install the new system where the old one was? The was an article (MR, a few years ago?) comparing several reverse loop modules and finding that there were sensitivity issues with some of them but sensitivity could be adjusted. Does the system short out or just pause and...

We may be getting Ike right now. The wind is whipping up a bit.

Kevin: the minimum is you need to remove any worm gears. For freer running you'll have to start removing the idler gears joining the axles. This isn't too hard as I had to take out a bunch when I installed the extra-low Ernst gearing. I have an idea that unpowered trucks (where they exist) have...

Thank you! I'll try to keep up the quantity and do something about the quality -- better modelling and fewer typoes. (I see it's taken me 6 ears but Doctorwayne did it in 3.)

Looking at the pictures on CNN, I'm surprised that it's that low. It looks as if one coach took a direct hit from a big UP unit while the one at the other end telescoped on the train's unit. Edit: I couldn't tell from the early pictures. I guess the dark blob next to the coach is part of the...

Wonderful. Same problem as the triplex -- loss of traction as the fuel in the tender is used up. I think Bill Schopp made one of the Santa Fe hinged boilers using the threaded bit of a broom handle.

I have a 2' shelf in HO. With my tendancy to fill with track, my wife complains that there's no space for scenery behind the back track. I feel that a narrow shelf makes the layout look longer. Do you have plans for the middle of the room? You could push a peninsula out there for wider scenic...

Josh: I bought a box of a few hundred 2-56 bolts and nuts a couple of decades ago. I think they were 1/2". I often cut them down -- a few nuts on them all the way, cut with track nippers or wire cutters, then take off the nuts to clear the threads out. I think 1/4 and 3/8 would handle most jobs...

I was talking 42" gauge; I thought EBT was 42". Mea culpa.

For interest, On42 will run on S gauge track. 42" was also the gauge of the Toronto & Nipissing and the Toronto Grey & Bruce, at least for their first decade. (see Rod Clarke's book) I'm not sure if the biggest current system is the East Broad Top or the San Francisco cable cars. edit: EBT is...

Ahhh! Isn't private enterprise wonderful. :cry: