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I am a rookie to modeling compared to the rest of you, but my gut instinct is not to use real water for model railroad purposes. I can imagine far more problems associated with the use of real water than can be overcome no matter what skill level you have.

I would go with this as well. I had TS installed on an old compter running on 98SE without any problems and then I converted to XP and reinstalled and have not had any problems. I have heard of some that had issues with the SP-2 release and once uninstalled TS and reinstalled all worked fine...

Val, you are clearly far more advanced than I will ever be but thanks for the inspiration.

What shortline railroads operate in this region and what class ones?

I have to agree with this. After numerous designs, everyone that saw may plans said I had way too much yard for what needed. Thankfully I caught on to what they were saying before it was too late.

What is the unique attraction to Edaville. JD - getting out the atlas now

Hey, Eric - thanks for the link. Now I need to find one of these cool toys. JD BTW - I will bring some termites to the June ops session to eat your wooden skewers<g>

In a few weeks, my wife and I will be in the Providence/Warick, Rhode Island area for a dog show. While I may like dogs, I have no desire to spend an east coast road trip looking at hundreds of Irish Setters for an entire week and thus need a small diversion. That being said and having never...

Russ, do you have the product number for this? Sounds interesting and I may just have to get one if I twist my arm hard enough<g>

Bill, the question I have is whether or not it is absolutely necessary to use magnetic couplers in your application. They do have their place in model railroading, but if you can switch out cars without the use of a magnetic coupler why bother with the cost?

Got the below information via another website of which the poster is a member of the FRRS museum (Western Pacific Railroad). For those not familiar, this translates into a movement of historical museum pieces between the FRRS museum in Portola, California the Western Railway Museum in Rio Vista...

Ralph - thank you thank you thank you. I have always wanted to know the answer to this but was afraid to ask. Rookie in training, JD

I have to go with the real stuff - cardboard recycler. Receives Hi-Cubes and tank cars and to scale works out great on a pair of modules overall 8 feet by 30 inches. I would attach a track plan of my module but have not figured out how to compress or convert it.

Good point, but I remember when the Alaska Railroad received another round of locomotive purchases and they went all the way across the country out in the open for all the world to see. Call me suspicious, but whatever that is under the tarps could be a "camo" job to disguise what is really...

The obvious question is why would you even cover a locomotive in the first place especially with what appears to be very loose covering.

Does anyone know if there are any webcams installed or planned to be installed in either of these yards?

How specific does the measurements have to be??? I can use a ruler to get some rough numbers, but if you are looking for microns...

Tis an engineering design that leaves a lot to the imagination as to what the heck they were thinking. Perhaps the various design sections were an experiment to see what loads could be supported???

I learned something about using white glue and ballast to create a "tar and gravel" roof. Great job and looking forward to seeing more from your shop!

Absolutely YES, as I belong to the Sacramento Modular Railroaders and my home track plans call for a modular design.