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Inside the helix I found a decent plan for the paper mill inside the helix that should prove to be fun and challenging. It's essentially a modified Timesaver, but has everything the original has. Normally Timesavers are standalone modules, but to spice it up, at the end where you enter the...

Here's better pics of the finished results. Some minor things have to be done to all three, all three need their smokestacks and window glazing reinstalled, C2 needs siderails and the roof ladders put back in, and the Grady twins need couplers and their cupolas dull coated. All in all I'm...

Doc, When I get home I can surely do that for you and the good of Zealot. Right after I completed the cars my wife left with a friend to do some shopping so I had to make my daughter and I some spaghetti. I figured one picture would be good for now to document my progress. Since I have a...

Caboose Frenzy! With the DGCC&W crews working on one of their long, lost cabooses they left in the woods to rot, that story motivated the WRRy shop forces to present a challenge to finish not one, but THREE cabooses (or cabeese, maybe cabii). I did some prep work on C2 and "the Grady twins" C5...

Tom, Even though the real Whiskey River is bigger, they win hands down on the scenery! It doesn't matter the scale or gauge, if it's railroading related I'm interested. Hopefully you could show me this place at some point in the future before I leave, whenever that'll be. Tyler

I don't know how I missed this, but I have a strange love for steam shovels. Every Saturday my Grandpa and I would go to the next town over to pick up feed and molasses in our '68 F100. On the way there was a old quarry that you could see into from the road and close to the road was this big...

Bill, If RedGreen ever made a caboose, that's probably what it'd look like! It is definitely unique for sure, I like it. Tyler

Doc Tom, That's the one I was talking about! I'd like to get more of those unique private cars to add to my collection. Going off of memory I think I only have four private roadname cars, a 40' Zig Zag and Crooked Creek boxcar, a 36' Johnson and Big Beaver Valley boxcar, a 40' Gorre and...

Rowsdower and Bob, Thanks for the kind words. I apologize that I haven't responded quicker, life got in the way with not only my truck being on the fritz but with work also. I was inspired to start the Whiskey River Railway after my uncle's 1:3 scale 16" gauge railroad of the same name in...

Viperious, From how you explained it, there are two ways to skin this cat. You can use Woodland Scenic's EZ Water, which is basically the same stuff a hot glue gun squirts out and dries pretty good and is easily modifiable. Second thing you could do is a old John Allen trick to use privacy...

Mike, Otger than using your favorite search engine, evilBay is probably the best place to search for model railroading goodies. Just recently I went through some old issues of MR and found a engine house I want, but there were few results on the web and none on eBay. I'm probably going to...

Sounds like a awesome project! One guy out there specializes in motors for almost any model railroad application, you can find him at http://www.micro-loco-motion.com/ I've purchased a gearhead motor from him for potential use in one of my steamers or one of my old Hustlers. Be sure to post...

Hello all, I normally squander in the model railroading section here on Zealot and am broadening my horizons. Basically what I'm wondering is if anyone knows of a manufacturer that makes HO scale (1:87 scale) WW2 American figures in dress uniforms or in plain fatigues (no combat load/vests but...

I don't know if you or anyone else is familiar with the website Shorpy but it's a great site. It has plenty of vintage pictures, most in very high resolution. While I was on there today I saw this and it looks similar to your station Bill: http://www.shorpy.com/node/13894?size=_original#caption...

It's always good to see another model railroader on here, welcome! I've been up to Ontario but not to Ottawa, just to Sault Ste. Marie and Wawa. We have a few dedicated model railroaders other than myself, Bill Nelson and Doc Tom are also very active at making things happen. Both of the...

I'm amazed, the wife has left me alone enough to accomplish quite a bit today. C1, the bay window caboose, finally has it's window castings in place and a gloss clear coat on it ready for decals. My twin cabeese (I should think of a nickname for the pair, the Soo Line had a pair of RS-27's they...

Cool load Bill. Laying around somewhere in my desk I have a old Hustler motor I painted dark gray and loaded on a Navy flat car. I also had a few crates from one of my buildings that I painted up that went on that flatcar, pretending to be a generator for a submarine or something. That and...

Do you have any signage from Wisconsin businesses that you haven't put up here before? I noticed all the beer signs, the Case farm implements and... something else too. I model the late 30's - early 40's in mid southern WI but any kind of sign would be neat to see. Thanks, Tyler

Hello and welcome Viperious! I think I know what your asking and I found one of the simplest wiring diagrams you could possibly use. If not, please ask questions. Basically what you have here are two cabs, power packs, throttles, or whatever you call your variable DC power output device, two...

Bill, Con-Cor now makes the coaches, but at $25 a pop for something that's not that unique is not within my budget. I'm still in disbelief that I conjured up one for $3! I don't think anyone else models Green Bay and Western in the late 30's in HO scale, so it looks like I'm a pioneer on this...