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Chad, Hi! Stumbled on "Tips on Modeling Wood Trestles:How to Avoid Common Engineering Mistakes" in RMC for May '06. It looks to be a source for anyone to trestle design, if you can access a copy (pages 84-91 with bibliography). Hope this helps now or later. Bob C.

PWRR, Just a guess/observation; the angled members seem to be the same size and material as the verticles, much heavier than sway braces - could this be a simple form of TRUSS bridge as opposed to a classic bent-trestle ? As the piers support each truss unit, a lower tension member need not be...

Josh - Shame on you ! Big Boy, indeed ! I'm a PRR guy, and once thought of re-doing a C&O H-8 for the PENNSY - What a brutiful loco ! Bob C.

Hi, NKP ! You made me LOOK! Yes, that is a 4-2-2 loco !(hard to see from the available photo angle indoors) Most unusual engineering. Thanks for the tweak ! Bob C.

Larry, didn't Kaydee advertise a variant of this - uncouple/seperate/shove - for their "Delayed - Action" magne-matics? Just have to shove a little harder, and be sure the air is bled out ! Bob C.

Lester, Hello ! This move was done by locals under PC and ConRail and was called "Swinging" a car. With the quality of most industrial track, it was often a "Puckering" move for all involved, and required a 2 or 3 man crew (Conductor and 1 or 2 brakemen), one to ride and cut off the car in...

Loren - EXCELLENT !!!! Remember seeing that one on the website - yours looks BETTER than their sample !!!! OUTSTANDING - by the time you get it on the layout and detailed in, no one will know, unless they see Tony the Tiger through one of the doors ! Bob C.

Aberdabr, Greetings, and welcome to the Gauge ! Please forgive us and have a little patience with our "Train-Brains". We all want to HELP, but don't know how to see things from your viewpoint, perhaps. Some good basic info on scale/gauge of your new trains, and basic technical data can most...

MKH, Greetings - Welcome to the Gauge. For what it's worth, when I was 12, talked my Dad into letting me quit the Xmas LIONELs, and go scale modeling. HO was my choice ( O was too expensive, space and $), and the basement had room for a 5'x8' twice around layout. I don't think N even existed (or...

Hi, Folks. The Western Pa. Mopdel Railroad Museum Holiday Show is now underway. It's a dandy group with a beautiful display and a fine layout. The main web site is The Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum and the show schedule at Annual Holiday Train Show . If you'll be in the Pittsburgh...

Thanks, both Bill and Chris. Neat looking cars, Chris. There' one remaining example of these in the Pa Trolley Museum ,but it is ubder or badly needs resto work. Think these are sufficiently different in length and detail, may need a serious kit-bash or scratch. It's on my back burner for now...

Hello, Barry ! Welcome to "The Gauge" ! Don't know where you're located, but "O" scale outdoors seems rare in the U.S. probably due to weather and durability issues - we get some nasty months in most of the country that would limit Garden-O to a seasonal hobby. Lots of "G-gauge" garden stuff -...

Can ANYONE pass up the chance to be PUBLISHED somewhere besides the back of a milk carton ?????

Rob, yes, you're on the right track - the $800+ models are mostly brass (hand assembled and painted). Even with lower wages in the nation of manufacture, (Korea, China, etc.), the small production runs justify (?) prices beyond the means of most. The more affordable die-cast metal/plastic models...

Steve; Thanks ! That site's AMAZING ! The mining and RR stuff, all the old photos, and the stories of the folks who lived and worked there. Bob C.

Welcome to The Gauge, Martin, pleased to have you with us. There are a lot of good folks here from all over with questions and (almost as many) answers...a friendly and helpful group. Bob C.

Triplex, did you see what's coming from MTH in February ??? Dec. ad in MR, in HO, DCC, Proto-Sound 3.0 - and somewhat less than your first-born $$$ !! Three Erie and 1 Virginian version ! Mike must like you ! Bob C.

Hey,Kyle ! NICE panorama ! Though I'm still in armchair mode, always have liked layouts with visual "depth" so one seems to be looking over/through the scene. Also like the way you treated the level split. Way to GO ! More when you can,Please ! Bob

What a gorgeous model of a spectacular piece of architecture ! Thanks to the craftsman/artist who preserved Kitchener Station intact (shame the prototype's tower couldn't have been saved),and to you, Mike,for showing us this finely crafted layout with your excellent photos ! Bob C.

Hello, All ! Thanks, (bill937ca) Bill! My Googling wasn't nearly as rewarding as your references ! My pic came from the Pa. Trolley Museum. Lots of new info to pursue - am trying to locate some of these pics in my mental map of the RoW. Greetings, Chris ! Yes, have thought for some time this...