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Union Station in Washington, D.C. has bumpers at the ends of all the upper level tracks. I can't remember seeing bumpers or stops anywhere else.

So how long do you suppose a pole would be? I might have to add one to my 0-6-0. Dave

Poling was used often to retrieve cars from spur tracks when the car would be on the wrong end of the engine when retrieved by driving in and coupling to it. For instance if the car was in a facing point spur and needed to be coupled behind the engine. The engine would proceed past the switch...

I'm usin a Lexmark printer. I will look for one of the Testors kits and try it out. Dave

18" radius is the commonly accepted minimum radii, however I believe 15" will be okay if you are going to operate very small locomotives and freight cars. You also want to keep in mind if the old track is brass it will be harder to keep clean, when brass corrodes/tarnishes the residue is...

Ahh, thanks for the tip, I will go this route. I guess I should have researched that a little more. Mods you can close the thread. Dave

I would like to make a refrigerator car for the Hook & Ladder Brewing Co. This is available from them as a sticker and I have one somewhere, but I need decals approximately sized to fit the side of an HO 40 or 50 foot refeer (without the backround and the edges not cut off like in the picture...

Thanks for the kind words guys. I am definitely satisfied with the result, though in retrospect I may have built it about 6 scale inches too tall. The great thing is I was able to start gaining some experience with styrene. I dream of joining the likes of nkp174 with his completely...

Done. Well, mostly. Rail Graphics decals will finish her off. I will do more weathering after the decals are on. Due to the lack of steel weights, this car will have a live load to make it heavy enough to operate well. "B" end "A" end It is not exactly like the hoppers in Loren's...

I have heard this one as Bomb-bar-d-yay and also as bomb-bar-deer

sign1 Well this turned out to be a pretty fun and interesting discussion! :thumb:

I spent a few years on CSX's Baltimore Division as a trainman, then went to engine school but left the job early in my engineer career. The job is a great amount of fun, I truly miss working with the equipment, seeing different places, and especially the people I worked with. The reason I left...

I never would have caught that! sign1That is ingenious!

Oh yessir!! There are for SURE some PRR and NYC cars still out there. I was just mentioning the recent influx of NYC stuff due to the CR split... Dave

So what is the correct pronunciation of Kato? I've always wondered... Oh, and BTW if you ever come to my house and call my GP7 a GHEEP I certainly won't correct you, I will know what you are talking about. I think what burned my butt was how this person had the "You're wrong, I'm right"...

Please excuse me if this seems petty or childish but I was very adamantly corrected this weekend by a railfan who insisted it is pronounced "Gheep". We all have our pet peeves and this one is mine, the infamous GP-series EMD locomotives, GP7-GP60 all inclusive, the General Purpose Workhorse of...

She chose an excellent model to start with and did an outstanding job assembling it! Be sure and post pics of the boxcar when whe's done. I sure wish my wife would share my hobby with me. If you guys are into the PRR how about suggesting she tackle a Bowser N5C... a little more challenging...

Proto 2000 gets my vote. Their 0-6-0 is magnificent, the bell and whistle even have a pull cord!! Dave

The who??? NYC?? OH you mean the Green Team. LOL. There are plenty of cars carrying NYC marks now, albeit they are not original NYC cars. These are the CR cars relettered for NYC LLC and used by CSXT. As for the PRR, I wish I had witnessed the Mighty Pennsy but I was born an era too late. My...

Would that be an NKP ALCo PA?? Nice choice!