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here he is - A Future Model Railroader seeing his first Z scale layout. Just look at that G scale Grin! (Photo by Jeffrey MacHan, Montreal Canada, Chief Imagineer of the VECRR)

Hmmm.. link doesn't work. Let me contact Jeffrey and get the original image and try again.

Didn't know about this, thanks for the headsup. Will have to get a copy. The little redheaded kid was almost 5 years old. He could look at a steam locomotive and tell you the wheel arrangement. He could easily rerail HO, and managed N OK, Z was little too small, but with some practice I'm...

Hmmmm... Maybe it depends on the weight distribution and the way the truck is mounted to the frame, if it can swivel may change all sorts of things. TC, could you make it so that the trucks are swappable back and forth, at least for some initial trials before the final work is done? Then...

I have to agree with Cidchase. Bikes have rear wheel drive. The reverse happens when braking, that's why the front wheel brakes are more effective than the rear wheel brakes.

You don't think so? Very well done! Thanks for posting these.

On this forum we discuss everything from train tunes to train cats to train ghosts. Oh yeah, and all aspects of trains too. And post hi-res photos of some of the most beautiful modelling work ever. But mainly we do this with a great deal of respect and appreciation for our fellow modellers...

Probably the 'outright bloody stupid' applies. Send out 100,000 emails and some sucker will respond. More and more junk mails all the time - the last 2 weeks have been getting many emails on the enhancement of male function and anatomy. Would like to jokingly respond 'not necessary', but...

Wow! You really have researched this. Two known deaths in a house with a 'history', 1 RR related. Too bad it was torn down. A wood carver is a modeller and probably would be interested in model trains as well. Cigars could explain the sudden heart attack, maybe he chewed mostly but...

The finished train. Next time I will use black wire, you can see a little bit of brown where it comes out the bottom rear of the locomotive. Also should have narrowed the drawbar in the middle so I can glue down a scanned and printed image of a mated coupler pair so it looks a bit more...

The other end of the drawbar ready to go into the wagon draft gear pocket.

Needed a drawbar to permanently couple the wagon to the loco and provide the electrical connection. This is made of 1/32" thick double sided printed circuit board stock.

wiring and hole clearances for one side to prevent shorting. Screws are 00-90.

closeup of wiper contact

here's the underside

Tough call where to post this - kind of a technical scratching and bashing, done to Z scale but can work on other scales. Just won a Marklin Z scale Freight Starter Set. Comes with one 0-6-0 tank loco and a 2 axle freight 'wagon'. The locomotive electrical pickup is only on 4 wheels and it...

Maybe #5 could be called a 'funnel'

Beautiful! I especially like night scene with the lighted store windows. These are great examples of modelling which cannot be distinguished from the actual prototypes.

Brakie, Did you ever try to find out from the neighbours if a previous owner was a model railroader?

Just got a scam mail tonight from chukwunna@tiscali.co.uk claiming to be an Africa banker (with a UK email?) and needing to find someone to take 30 million dollars off his hands. If not, the money will "be donated to the trust fund for arms and ammunition to further enhance the course...