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I'm building a switching layout as my first foray into On30 and due to space limitations, I'd like to use a small diesel switch engine (e.g., an SW-1) instead of a steam loco (I know it's probably not prototypical). How hard would it be to convert, say, an Atlas O 2-rail DC switcher to On30, and...

And what, exactly, did she give up? :eek:

A lot of my male friends express surprise when they learn that I'm the one who does the budget and pays the bills, until they learn that (a) I spent 20 years as a financial analyst before I changed careers in 1998, and (b) if my wife was in charge of paying the bills, we'd get a raft of...

Here's an interesting turnabout: my wife isn't at all interested in my "choo-choos" (she is OK with the time I spend doing the hobby), but I have discovered that I enjoy her hobby, quilting, even to the point of designing my own original patterns.

The pictures are excellent - can we see more, folks? TrainNut: I like how you've integrated the layout into the room. The benchwork looks like furniture! I'd enjoy seeing more pix, from closer. Roger Hensley: A very tantalizing picture. Could we see more of what you've done? It looks like...

An idle thought as I'm sitting here in the house, 100' away from my train room, the temperature outside is 14 degrees, and tomorrow it's supposed to snow/sleet/freeze: Where's your layout? It seem like the most popular spots are Basement Attic Garage Spare room Detached building Elsewhere No...

Until April of 2005, I had been out of the hobby for about four decades (but who's counting?). One way I've been "catching up" has been by reading every issue of MR & RMC since 1980. After I put away my trains (what ever happened to them, anyway?) when I left for college, I thought many times...

Loren, I just discovered this thread. Your "Version 1.0" looked very good, and if you get into operations I think you will really enjoy running this "Version 2.0" plan. I, too, am a scenery minimalist, so I tend to pack in a lot of track. I have two interchange "yards" and they will really...

If you were a 'prototype' model railroader, you would ask yourself, "Is that what a real railroad would do?" I suspect real railroads like to keep it simple and thus would eschew a DSS unless there was absolutely no other option available. However, if you are 'just' into enjoying your hobby and...

I, too, like to watch my trains run, especially now that with a bigger room a complete circuit at 'prototypical' scale speeds takes over five minutes. I'm building in a lot of switching, interchange, and yard operations -- for when I'm in the mood to do that. And by removing one "domino", the...

I used "Aviary Blue" (Sherwin-Williams 25-Year). A definite improvement over the dirty white the walls were previously. :mrgreen:

I guess I'm lucky in that I'm building the best of both worlds. I have an around-3-walls 24" wide shelf plus several hollow-core-door "dominoes" so I can configure my layout for either point-to-point for pure operations (which seems to be all the rage now to the point of being the only...

If I was building a layout with those specifications, depending on the amount of space I had, I might have a single track for [light] engine servicing -- fuel, sand, water, whatever -- and no yard or a small "branch line" sized yard. If you have interchange tracks, they would be your connection...

Ditto. I had to call them up several times about an order I had placed. I finally got it, but it was like extracting an impacted wisdom tooth from a hippo by using a toothpick. I won't order from them again. Attention all online business operators: If you don't care about your customers, pretty...

Quote: Originally Posted by CSXect :wave: Hi I just now got around to this part of the forum and I like the concept of Free-MOn30:thumb: I am a diehard S-gauger with a serious O gauge habit, who has one On30 train set. Not sure if any other On30 people around my area but it sounds like...

I'm pretty much a 'lone wolf' model railroader & I don't make a point of talking about my hobby and all its benefits to me, but if someone finds out I'm a model railroader, if they ask how much money I have spent on "toy trains", I usually ask them if they have a hobby and how much their bass...

"I now use it as a power supply for my Digitrax DCC system so it is still serving me well." Does this mean that this system can be used without the tethered controller (i.e., can I hook up a different controller to it directly through the DC output terminals)?

Thanks for this information. I had previously purchased a couple of modules of both Sievers and Mianne pre-fab benchwork, and I found both of them to be flimsy and very expensive on a per-foot basis. Also, Mianne's benchwork is not truly modular, as adjoining sections share a leg assembly rather...

I know what you mean about this kind of situation. On balance, however, I have made many more "web friends" through eBay than I've had neutral or negative experiences. Sometimes these correspondences have lasted many months, or longer.

Thanks for alerting me to the broken link. It seemed to be working for me this morning, but here's the raw link you can copy and paste directly into your browser: martinjohnsonmfg.com