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You need to pick up the Canadian Trackside Guide available from your local hobby shop or available from Bytown Railway Society. It lists all locos in Canada. Cost is about $25 -$28. A must if you are doing any railfanning.

Yes, I know Tom Caine very well. Spent the whole day with him and his son-in-law on Saturday at the Ottawa Central Railway Open House. HO Scale - I'm also a member of Ottawa Valley HOTRAK, along with Mason Jar. Module railroading has developed well beyond the "good-ole-days" of...

I don't know exactly what you mean but you have the choice of either gluing them to the module, or leaving them loose and lifting them off the module every time you take your modules down. For gluing them on the module, you can use, white glue, carpenter's glue, polyurethane glue...

Uh, "big modern DC-traction locomotives" might be considered to be a contradiction? Uh, I would perhaps rephrase it that "CP only buys big modern AC-traction locomotives". They're rapidly adding a whole bunch of ES44ACs to their fleet of high-horsepower freight locos. Now, if you want to...

If it was an RDC, it may have been on its way to Moncton NB for overhaul.

Methinks you point out one of the main reasons for buying Digitrax. You don't lose all of your investment if you want to upgrade. Handheld throttles can be used on any of their command stations. Command stations can be used as boosters if you decide to expand your layout and need more power...

Yes, the Digitrax manuals are a bit lacking. However, if you lurk at the digtrax@yahoogroups discussion forum, you can pick up quite a lot. Don't get too frustrated about how things all work. Give yourself some time. Take 15 minutes a day to learn something new about DCC and Digitrax...

At the Smiths Falls Railway Museum in "Sensational Smiths Falls", Ontario Canada, our typical visitors are Mom, Dad, and the Two Kids. The Two Kids usually have the wooden Thomas The Train. So, we make sure that our gift shop is well stocked with the wooden Thomas The Train and Friends...

Hey, no negativity here! You dood it! If you hadn't told us, we wouldn't have known. And if you didn't tell they guys in your club, they don't know. And besides, they connected with the next modules in line - right? And the trains can pass from your modules onto the next ones - right? And...

Double gap both rails. Common rail refers to the days of analog. As to whether it's AC or DC really doesn't matter. If you're familiar with the signals in a Local Area Network, then you're well on your way to understanding the signals used in Digitrax DCC. However, this is a study that is...

Of course it passed! Wouldn't you expect it to pass! After all, you built it! Yeah! Right on. Way to go! Did you ever realize that, now that you're the expert in the club, you will be asked by everyone in the club to help them build their modules? Be prepared! Bob M. PS - Doesn't it...

It just received funding and its new designation from the Government of Canada last month under Bill C-340. This will mean more money coming in so that they can do some restoration work on the equipment that they have. For many years, Delson has been short of monies to keep things going...

You can adapt a regular rail joiner so that it will take both Code 83 and Code 100. I used Code 100 insulfrogs with Atlas Code 83 rail and it worked quite well. You can see this mod under a previous thread "Which switch to buy". It was a simple matter of pushing down on the Code 100 (insert a...

If you have a regular N-Trak club in the area, you might want to convince them to add some Free-mos to make things more interesting other than just having the trains go round and round and round. That's what we did at Ottawa Valley HOTRAK http://www.hotrak.ca Bob M.

The key to assembling those pieces of wood is to free up as many hands as possible so that you only need two hands to do the job. This is where some "jigs" come in hand. In this case, our jig are a couple of pieces of 2"x 4" cut to the thickness of our styrofoam - in my case, 1½" x 1½"x 18"...

Getting things square is a piece of cake! And you don't need 4 hands, 4 corner clamps, etc. All you need are a couple of tricks of the trade and knowing how to sequence the work. For starters, visit my website http://www.railwaybob.com/Modules/ModConstr/ModConstr01.htm and read how I put my...

Hi NYNH&H. those PowerPole connectors sound interesting. Is this what they look like? http://www.connex-electronics.com/?url=/html/products/anderson/powerpole/pp_main.html&kw=google{Anderson_Powerpole{powerpole_connectors&gclid=CO7_r73_9ooCFRhmSgodpAbkBA Now, help me out here a bit. Are the...

Looks real cool. A suggestion. Notwithstanding that you want to build your freights on the main line, you might want to reconsider things a bit, particularly if you've got more than one operator running the trains. I would extend the yard lead at Parkdale back into that CPR spur...

Hi, NYNH&H. I find there are two types of rules in this world - those which we call standards (eg the width of standard gauge track on North American Railroads shall be 4' 8½" between the rails), and recommended practices (to reduce weight on your modules, it is suggested that you might want to...

I think it's one of those days when the folks at CN really don't feel like getting out of bed in the morning for fear of what else they might be facing. Freight train derails in Kingston Derek Abma, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Monday, March 12, 2007 A partial derailment of an CN rail...