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Walthers HO Scale Cornerstone Series Engine Servicing Facility here is an interesting 4x8 engine terminal diorama picture. its small, but it might provide some ideas. Good luck!

The old athearn blue box kits were awesome, so easy to build, smooth rolling, and with a little extra detail you could make them very nice looking. R-T-R cars will be the death of modeling. lol

'I usually reply, "Just one train set."' sign1 I gotta remember that one.

Living in the Phoenix area in the 120 degree summertimes, there is little to do in my free time but go for a swim or work on the layout. :)

Cattle pens look good. I think I used to have one of those cattle trucks. The side-loading one is by Matchbox, isn't it?

Good to know I'm not alone, lol.

Anyone else out there have a 2:1 rolling stock to locomotive ratio? I seriously have upwards of 30 locomotives and only about 65-70 freight and passenger cars. sign1 Its a sickness, really. You see an engine you really want and without really giving regard to whether or not it fits, you...

My BLI Mikado is a nice running engine, though it came with its tender pickups installed wrong. Once I flipped them around it ran great. I have a Bachmann Plus GS-4 Northern, which is a great runner, but the tender was way too light, so I added some weight. I've been looking at a BLI T1 for...

I would test your coupler heights on a level section of track. If any are off height, a grade will make it very apparent, but if they are all at the same height on level track, then its definitely not a coupler issue. Good luck!

Check out local swapmeets in your area for good deals on flextrack if you need more. Flextrack lasts forever and can easily be reused if it was removed gently. Older Athearn engines are amazing, its a shame they aren't made the same way anymore, hang onto them! Welcome back to the hobby...

Way to go Robert! :)

I love my Proto SW9, it'll pull about 15 cars on a level track. About all you can ask from a switcher.

Some of these may not have documented proof, but they have more than one eye witness. Also, there are instances where a train traveled between two places with such speed that it MUST have been going over 126mph. The Mallard was just the only steam loco to do it in an official capacity.

How long are your sidings? Also, what type of cars are you considering?

I read a story about Pennsy T-1 engineers pushing their locomotives to 140 in the back country of Pennsylvania late at night when they were running late headed to Philly.

Thanks for all your comments. It makes me feel better to hear this isn't an uncommon thing. I've moved on, I'm gonna start a new layout of my own once I have the room. Right now I'm slowly building up an engine roster to keep my interest until such time I can really put them to use. There are...

Its actually close to 3000 square feet. 30x100. Yes, they had enough room in there for anything but an airplane hangar. But bad layout designs put an end to that. Oh well.

Let me share with you all a little story about something that was once very near and dear to my heart. I belonged to a model railroading club in the Phoenix, AZ area, I won't mention which one. I was a member there for over 10 years. Our membership was rather large, but our active membership...

How do you like your Prodigy Advanced? I've been thinking of getting one. Is programming as smooth as they say it is?

The ex-Spokane, Portland, and Seattle 2-8-2 is going to be a really great looking loco when its done. :) Hope I get the chance to ride behind it.