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You might also ask Walthers if they could send you a copy of the instructions. Wayne

Thanks for the poll. I also don't hate it but I'm so used to it not being there, I don't think I would use it much. Another thing that I don't exactly hate, though it comes close, is black fonts on dark blue background such as the text of this poll. Perhaps it's my browser, or simply the...

Glad you're back! Got a little panicky when both The Gauge and the Model RR site were down in the morning. Almost thought I was going to have to go do some work. Wayne

Suydam was bought by Alpine Division Scale Models and your kit might still be in production. Or they at least might be able to help in some way. info@alpinemodels.com Wayne

Hi 77railer, I'm happy to be reading about the progress you and the students are making on the club & layout. I know it's a bit early in their club's history to claim success but they appear to have gotten off to a very good start. While donations from members here and from major...

Andy, I don't have a copy and don't know if it would answer your question, but I've seen a book on railroad radios, not surprisingly, called Railroad Radio. The author is Vincent Reh. If you haven't seen it, it may be an interesting book combining your interests. Wayne

If I understand your post, I think you're asking about tracks that cross each other at grade. If so, most manufacturers of track offer a variety of crossings at different angles. To determine what you need, you should measure or estimate the angle which the tracks cross and see if one is...

Yeah, I didn't want to say anything, but since ddavidv brought it up, it sounds more like the local dentists setting up a Limited Partnership rather hobbyists getting together to share their interests and do something fun. Get the fun stuff going. All that other stuff, if needed, will...

The tails of the switchbacks then will be determined by the length of 3 log cars plus your Shay and space for the point of the switch to clear. The width of the switchback module will be detrmined by how many legs you'll be climbing and how close you wish to space the track. The closer the...

Hard to imagine dimensions Jim without knowing scale you're working in, but width & length shouldn't be a factor in derailments unless your roadbed is so narrow trees or rock outcroppings get in the way. Watch the clearance on curves where car overhangs increase, though usually the short length...

Central Valley makes a 150' Pratt Truss bridge. It only spans 21" so it may be a bit short for a duck-under unless the operators are on teh thin side. (Though I say "only," a 21" model span is still impressive. Not aware of longer ones but they might exist. You say you probably will need...

I lived out in Greenville near Slate Hill but drove through your town every day on my way to work down in Suffern. Lived in the area from 1977 to 1993 before starting my migration north. Lots of railroad history in your area. There was a quite a bit of iron mining in the hills around you...

Not sure how I'd model the seedy behaviour of the loggers on my early 1900's layout. Mostly heavy drinking on a Saturday night at a tavern in town. And a fight spilling out onto the street? From my reading, that seemed to be the major form of entertainment after a week in the camps where liquor...

Right now I'm working on the sawmill section and next will be a line up to logging camps. The early 1900's, in which my layout is purportedly set, would have seen much of the area cut for timber, clearcut by charcoal burners supplying the furnaces or burned by massive fires often started...

Well, yeah, that's the aftermath of logging in these parts. Stumpy clearings. Wayne

Well, there are still logging operations here in the mountains, but they're pretty much small scale operations on private land. The heyday of logging here was over more than a half century ago. Some big paper companies like Domtar from Canada still have forest holdings here but most logging...

I've been toying with the idea of building my fleet of logging cars from wood. I've bought a bunch of Alan Curtis metal 25' cars and like them a lot. But the big logging company up here in the mountains in the 1900's built their own wood frame cars so that's good enough for me. Of course, an...

I'll have to check out the issue. I'm still planning to build a similar car in N scale. I'll have to see if I can find a suitable chassis. I hope to lasercut the body from the drawings from the Narrow Gauge Gazette. I have to find an earlier issue, Jan 1977, that has a set of dimensioned...

An interesting aside re: winter logging with horse-drawn sleds: To keep things sliding smoothly over the frozen ground, early in the morning a horse-drawn sled with a large tank of water would be sent out to "groom" the logging roads by laying down a film of water to freeze into a smooth...

Zooming in, it looks like it could say "B & O Station." Which is good because the B&O did run through Braddock, PA. (BTW, the two-letter state abbreviation came into official use on 1965 but they were in common use for ages.) Other than the masonry parapet walls, there really is little...