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Since this is going to be something used at Christmas time, you should consider making it a snow scene. Then that gives you an excuse to build or buy a snowplow! That is all. Tyler

My first attempt of casting turned out to be a failure. I decided to experiment instead of using the kit supplied cast material, the substitute being gasket RTV. Needless to say it just clung to the plastic door I tried to make a copy of. Lesson learned there. The wonderful old eBay has...

It seems like lately that my life is the song from The Guess Who, "No Time". At least stuff is selling decently on eBay to buy future railroad products. Enough venting for now... I did make a recent purchase on eBay, a old (possibly) Varney or Roundhouse cast metal outside braced boxcar. It has...

Doc Tom, That ol' boxcar looks amazing! I love the weathering job you did to it. The huge Kadee's look pretty neat on it too! I might just have to bring a note pad and take notes on how to weather cars. Some of my previous attempts were not so good, and since then I really haven't tried it...

Since the weather has been favorable lately, lots of non model railroading stuff has been taking priority. Slowly I'm getting my truck fixed up after years of neglect (some of it my doing, mostly my parents lack of maintenance when I was gone to Korea and Afghanistan), things around the house...

As of last weekend, only the two short ones are left. I ended up selling the tall one. Tyler

Gary, Glad those links worked for you. I've considered making one just for fun, as it looks pretty straight forward and relatively simple. Mine may be made from a steamer instead of a diesel since that's what I prefer. To me, diesels are boring since all of their action is internal. Besides...

A year and a half later and I finally produce results. I apologize as at that time I was about ready to deploy to Afghanistan, so I had a lot on my plate. Anyways, here's the links: http://www.carendt.com/scrapbook/page80/index.html http://www.freerails.com/view_topic.php?id=1813&forum_id=45...

This section of Zealot is strictly model railroading. Back on the main Zealot page they do have card modeling folks and forums where you can download stuff. As far as a Coke machine though, I'd love to have a real-deal one full of glass bottle Cokes. The one feed mill my grandpa and I would go...

AHM Boxcars I got a little work in on some of my more unique rolling stock today, that being my pair of AHM double door wood sheathed boxcars and my tool car X51. I don't have any pics of the tool car at all yet, but to inform you it's just a plain jane Mantua clearance car minus the thing that...

Since last time I've reported in, very little has been done. Apart from the usual things that keep me from train time, my truck needed a oil change and coolant flush, I had CQ (charge of quarters in the barracks, for you non-military folk), and we've done some family stuff out in Land Between...

Bill, I have heeded your advice prior to reading this as I studied the hell out of the destructions on hoseeker.net and still was apprehensive to rip into it. I did get the Whiskey River's first locomotive lettered today, pics soon to follow on my page. Also since I've cleaned off a good...

Bill, I actually got around to the Southern locomotive this morning and spliced in another motor onto the motor out leads. We do have voltage and amperage enough to run a motor coming from the decoder as when it was hooked up it turned the motor in both directions. If I get time this afternoon...

I made up for yesterday's disappointment early this morning. Since I surprisingly decided to wake up at 7:15 I put that early start to use, first with real world productivity such as laundry, cleaning my boots and giving myself a haircut. After that I got four more cars complete, two more flat...

I've completed two more cars for the WRRy today. The first one is the company's ballast car X56, a slightly reworked Tyco operating hopper car. I say slightly reworked because it originally had Talgo trucks on it which had to be converted for better in train handling, so what I did was drill a...

Bill, I can try cheating in another motor into the circuit to see what the issue is. I do believe I have a test light somewhere also to test amperage coming off the decoder. I'll see how it goes later on today, some more stuff from eBay sold so I have to run to the post office and drop some...

Doc Tom, I don't have any on my computer, but when I go through my storage unit one day I'll try to remember them. I have to go in there anyways, I hooked one of my buddies onto R/C cars who now moved to Korea and I have a load of R/C car mags and books that are just collecting dust. Just a...

Bill, No need to ship it off to Soundtraxx, your decoder has motor voltage coming out of it. And I'm not gonna lie, not many things bother me in life anymore after being mortared, shot at, and driving down 41A, but a huge rat nest of wires does. One thing I'll try to do for you and this loco is...

Zathros, I considered leaving the FT alone for about two minutes and then scrapped that idea. Since my railroad is set in the late 30's and early 40's the FT would have been on the scene, but such a small railroad as the Whiskey River wouldn't have bought anything new like this which would...

Last night I got wild with it and busted out my Super American project to see if Bob's old Bachmann FT mechanism would be something I can use to power this beast. Short answer is no. Long answer is that the FT's axles are about 1/4" too far apart from the Rivarossi ones. Now here's my decision...