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I switched from HO to N scale in the 7th grade and never looked back.

I'd be interested in them and I live close enough I could probably arrange pickup. ~BS

Because it's a toy train made by Bachmann?

Camp Washington Chili in Cincinnati makes a damn fine three way as well! ~BS

Different railroads have different systems. Your best bet would be to acquire rule books for various railroads you are interested in learning about. (Spending money for information?! Unheard of!) ~BS

So far just two books, Remembering Midwestern Alcos and A Passion for Trains. Still waiting on a few more cartons from lazy friends, however. ~BS

There are plenty of shortline mains that look worse than that yet, too. ~BS

Careful there, Don, I'm half your age and also think YouTube is worthless. I don't even click links people send me. ~BS

A Chicagoland get-together would last about a week with all the railroad sites in town. Even then, you wouldn't get to see half of them. ~BS

Facebook was wonderful before they tried to be like MySpace. It was a great way for college students to keep in touch with each other. At one time, when I joined, they required an e-mail address from a participating college to join. Later they allowed high school students to join if they were at...

What's realistic depends on the era. A 1950s era layout could have some structure flats nearby and look completely realistic. A YMCA would be entirely appropriate up through the 1980s, though the vast majority of modern crews are housed through contracts with local hotels. Most modern yards...

I don't have any of my Erie or Erie Lackawanna books handy, but I believe the Walthers car is very close to, though not an exact match for, a couple classes of Erie or EL cabooses. ~BS

NJ International used to have a large line of signals, are they still in business? ~BS

As old as the Walthers caboose model is any undecorated models probably have been purchased and painted by now. Usually it's cheaper to buy a painted model in a road that was overproduced and strip it yourself than to purchase an undecorated model when it is first released. ~BS

Because high speed trains in North America have a snowball's chance in Hawaii of ever getting funded. ~BS P.S. - Send me PM if you want to talk anime and manga. :thumb:

Rockland Clockwise Belt Line

The Men Who Loved Trains by Rush Loving, Jr. This deserves to be on every railfan and modelers bookshelf, regardless of where he or she lives. ~BS

Hasn't been updated since July, but it's a start: railohio's railroad book list

Except that it's filed as a Norfolk & Western book. :mrgreen: That's when I was shuffling my collection around a bit. All the small books are on the top shelf now, All Aboard, The Men Who Loved Trains, etc. In fact, nothing is filed right right now as I've just gotten a pretty big chunk of...

I found these photos on the digital camera tonight and thought I'd share. They were taken back in July and I've filled all three shelves completely with books by now. Recognize anything in there you have? ~BS