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true, they were using 3 letter codes up till about the late 1970's early 80's. and yes there is a braddock, PA, but no MN. odd though, the arcitecture looks to be of a southwestern colonial type, but in PA.

that looks pretty New Mexico-ish, not sure if you'll get an exact look, but how about this: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/322-639 or this one looks like it'd fit the general architecture of the area: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/578-320204 Edit: if you read the fine...

welcome to the club.

Actually, by definition, Old west refers to area west of the MN, IA, MO, AR, and LA line after 1870 and before 1900. Once you know the "Old West" refers to the 1870-1900 timeframe and that it entails the western states, you can then narrow down your landscape into Desert, Mountains, grass...

why are you planning on getting divorced anytime soon?;)

OK, i think i got the basic Idea now, Let's see if this seems decent: This is just the one General Goods Dock I decided to do, based on your info and some other photo's i found of active systems. Would love tyo find a picture of that strange crane, that would be a great scratch builder...

LOL, i think he meant his camera. as for that, the pic seems a bit out of focus, but otherwise fine.

Ralph, the first is the tanker, a bit shorter and a little different design. Yes Larry, I understand they carried (and still carry) any sort of bulk cargo, although not sure if they carried General Cargo (odd sized crates and other items) before the advent of stacks and uniformed cargo...

Hmm...when is that? Really this sounds wonderful, to bad I'm not up there to lend a hand.

Greta Jeremy, those images do show I'm on the right track for designing a Port the way I was thinking. And i found Historic information on a Tanker built in 1921: http://www.cinms.nos.noaa.gov/shipwreck/dbase/montebello_2.html for ocean going operations, and studing the data and pictures, the...

Russ, the discription says "patterned after ships built in the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s", and yea, I know the friegther is more ore/coal orientated and was a great lakes version. but some minor modifications and it can look like a general cargo freighter as well. they have it shown here...

Here's the catch, I saw an add for an HO scale frieghter and tanker: http://www.historicrail.com/historicrail/product_info.po?ID=7738&product=models and http://www.historicrail.com/historicrail/product_info.po?ID=7739&product=models Now here's the delemia, do i do a frieghter operations or a...

extruded foam is the way, 2" is good enough for a base, Linn H. Wescott's book "How to build Model railroad Benchwork, 2nd ed" has a section in the back explaining how to build a setup for foam, suggest you pick it up and check it out.

scary, dang near scary, love to model that though, should look good on my 1880-1900's setup

very good product, definatly a must for several aspects of modeling.

Welcome to the club, we all burn at least 1 or 2 decoders. Lyuckily, if you use Lenz or NCE decoders you can get them replaced for free (or very little cost). Now for the questions, what locomotive was it you were trying to put a decoder in and what Decoder was it you were trying to install...

Ditto, the NCE system is great, and the New ROM adds alot of new potential that they're working on adding that will push them further over the other competitors.

Chris, In the US (not sure about canada or the Europe) the system was intially very costy and very few had Cell phones. This caused companies to recuporate the costs by charging the Users for both incoming and outgoing calls. unfortunatly, now that cell phones are well saturated, the US...

Hmm..sounds like someones speaking from expirience. :p

both are right. 1" over 100" is a 1% grade