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Mine's freelanced, but based on the northwestern edge of the Black Hills in South Dakota and into southeastern Wyoming. Two prototype ng lines in particular have served as inspiration: the Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railway (owned by the big Homestake mine, trucked timber in to Lead for the...

I was thinking about this today while driving my wife nuts singing along with Johnny Cash and doing some landscape work. :thumb: I often listen to a special mix CD I made up of Johnny Cash songs (all obtained legally, thank you) when I'm working on the layout, all of the songs are about...

Thanks everyone- this thread generated so many good ideas in a really short period of time (not only great answers to my question, but inspiring modelling from Shaygetz, a link to bnfhobby- can't believe I haven't run across that yet, etc.) You all have been really helpful and has given me a...

Hi everyone. I'm at the point where I'd like to start building some HOn30 rolling stock for my late 19th century mining layout. I've got a question about trucks though and am hoping that I can get some opinions. I know that the Grandt Line HOn30 archbar trucks with NWSL wheels are the...

Trainwhiz- I use a product called Durhams Water Putty for roads and actually a lot of my scenery stuff, especially transitions from ground cover to roads, gaps between buildings, etc.. It's available at hardware stores (Lowes, Home Depot, etc.) and pretty cheap. Mix it up to a slightly...

Thanks for the comments everyone. Jasbourre, the basic overall layout sketch is attached plus a eagle eye view of the current module. The big layout plan is basically a dream and based on the assumption of more space than I'll probably have access to. I can already see lots of room for...

Two More. At some point I'll get a better shot of the Climax and an overview shot up.

I've been lurking on The Gauge for a couple of months and posting for the past couple of weeks, and finally decided to get around to publishing some pics of my layout. Some backstory and info on the layout first: Backstory [all of this is completely made up, although based in a vague way on a...

They showed the full footage of this accident on the CBS evening news last night, including the events that led up to it. The way it looked was 1) a traffic light about 20-30 yards past the RR crossing turned green at almost the same instant that the lights and warning bells started at the...

Bachmann makes a "Brill trolley" in N-scale. I think it retails around $30, but I picked up mine for $15 on ebay. It is a great little runner, from what I've seen. I've attached two pictures -- one with shell and one of the guts. The length of the chassis is 3 1/8". The problem I've had...

Shift Change at the Rose Quartz Creek Stamp Mill My first shot at posting a pic to the Gauge...hope it works. The LPB employees of the Rose Quartz Creek Stamp Mill comiserate about the new mill foreman (owner's nephew) during a shift change on a late summer afternoon at the turn of the...

Cookie- I've been working on a lot of scratchbuilding for a HOn30 mining layout set in the Black Hills in the 1890s-1900s. In addition to some of the sites noted above, I'd highly recommend the History of the American West component of the Library of Congress American Memory collection...