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John, that new ballest looks wonderful! Yours too trainwiz;)

Let's see, my MDC Roundhouse 3 truck shay, before retrofit, pulled 40 cars at 55% power on a flat grade. I ran out of cars to test it's full capacity, but i figured it would pull 100 on flat before slipping, not bad at all. haven't regeared it to run better yet, but i'm suspecting, by what i...

See that's the problem when you put that dang cab on the front. ;)

Looks good, you could always mist spray the ballast with a brown color, make it look a little older, looks like fresh laid right now :) Put a few small pockets of short grass here and there in the ballast, maybe a flower or two along the sides. Just a few suggestions.

This is sad, 3 paramedics died as they tried to back off the track to avoid a train on an unguarded rural crossing. Read the story here: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/20/train.crash.ap/index.html

I belive he's refering to the throwbar, try here: http://www.troutcreekeng.com/bkho.html they have a throwbar(2 in a pack) for $3, scroll down to OTHER ITEMS and as you'll see by the page, Kit's are not dead, even for rails and turnouts.

Brakie, the thing is, the light turned green, the truck proceeded across the rails, the light turned red and the driver stopped for a red light, with his rear end partially on the rials, the gate arm came down on the truck as he was about half way across the rials. seems to me the intersections...

forgive me here, but the gate is not big enough to have a modern train go through it (it's about 1 person in radious, aproxx 6 feet). you would have to scale the train down to support such an opperation, then yuo have to make sure all the track on both side is exactly perfectly lined up. and...

Connor, the new MRC prodigy advanced is getting good reviews, i'd be tempted to get it over the Digitrax, as you'll get both a Knob and button control on the same throttle. Course I already own a NCE, so I won't be getting another system for awhile.

cool, sounds like a winner, might have to get one myself, been eyeing them for awhile now. let me know how many you can pull. I'm betting about 60-70 cars on a flat, maybe 100. ;)

Frank, didn't the A&P's also operate Malt shops in their stores in the 50's? I remember my parents talking about how they would head out to the A&P for a shake. Course we don't have any A&P's left here, they all were gone by the mid-late '70's. Oh And BTW, the building really looks good, time...

so how's the atlas one run? since it's a new product, let's get a review of it going ;)

Ok, was doing some looking for unique looking stations to build and found some interesting pictures of some. I really love the look od the LA Union Station, but I think it might be a bit to dull over all (but a good challenge). But taking into account the design was what caught my attention...

he's meaning either 1 of 3 things (of course i could be totally wrong, but i'm guessing), either the arrival/depature tracks, the mainline track or the lead track.

Look's like a few I've seen around here. door, what door, who needs a door to go to the bathroom? ;)

Hey didn't say it was wrong to put the old time car on a modern, just different. I'm a firm beliver in model what you want, looks like you've got a lot of good stuff running there.

Actually, it's FREE, the $5 is to cover S&H, and $15 for an all new manual, otherwise you just get inserts for the old one.

Nice, but umm....isn't that a 36' boxcar? I love the idea that somehow a baby ruth 36' boxcar somehow made it long enough to be pulled by a modern diesel.

I have to agree with Val here, I like the second version though. But, i'd say replace the hibiscus flower on the second one with thepalm tree again, make the trunk the same yellow (preferably a duller yellow) as the center and put the green leaves back in. the palmtree can be trimmed in a light...

Ballast now before appling trees and junk. As for what to wear, well your engineers outfit of course.