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I actually have a short storage siding on my layout I am setting up to be a MOW storage track for my Wathers Work train #1. I have put a couple of small shacks nect to it for the MOW crews to use.

I discovered a handy little technique for getting the spacing from the car body on the wire grabs on my caboose that may prove useful to others. I put a spare x-acto knife blade under the handrail between it and the car body before applyng the CA glue on the inside of the shell. I hold...

I am curious as to what the best techniques, Materials, etc. for scratchbuilding Scale Handrails on HO scale locomotives are. I want to replace the handrails on my Athearns with closer to scale wire handrails but I am not really sure how to do the vertical supports on the handrails. The...

Well I decided to start small. I brought my CSX caboose with me to work tonight as well as my x-acto and some extra blades. I have successfully shaved off all the molded on handrails with little extra to be touched up. I also picked up a few hundred Tichy brass wire grab irons at my...

I actually use acryllic airbrush paint sold in the small bottles like the Ceramcoat Wal-Mart sells . The brand name is Createx Opaque Airbrush Colors. I mix mine buy putting roughly 1/3 of the mixing bottle with paint and adding in rubing alcohol and shaking it until thinned nicely. It...

Actually it is HO. Don't really need any install info, it already has the stock Atlas Decoder in it. The nice thing is that it is the typical Atlas motor mounted circuit board type that digitrax makes a drop in replacement for if it ever goes bad. I am actually running the...

Those wheelchair motors are designed for extremely high torgue but low speed. Ever seen the comercials where they tow a fukll sized ford econoline van with one of the power chairs? Those chairs have one motor per drive wheel and usually only have two drive wheels.

I actually found what it was. Roco made the locomotive for Atlas, not the decoder as far as I could find on the Atlas site.

I actually found the problem. And yes it is a Proto 2000 BL-2 in Western Maryland paint with many extra detail parts added that she picked up on ebay. It ran fine on DC and it ran fine on DCC for a while. then I ran i one night and packed it away for the night in it's box and the next...

My mother has a beautifully superdetailed and weathered BL-2 loco that unfortunately will register a direct short even with nothing but the truscks and frame on the track (with the wheels of course). Is there any way to get this loco to run on my Digitrax system short of spending 3 times...

It's more the "Leaning tower of tiny little parts I hate tryign to find int he parts box". Having vision worse than 20/400 definitely is a pain in the rear.

Thank you so much Tom. I assume the mail portion of the Combine is the end with the Large door on it? I rearranged the traina bit to be Combine, Sleeper, Dining Car, and Observation car. I still have a little detailing left to do on them like installing the windows and putting...

Well I am sorta modeling a range of eras with the town really. but it is a small Eastern United States sort fo town like what you find in the Smokey Mountains of north Carolina or similar. I am modeling Upt o around the GP-38 days or so. I currently have CSX , Clinchfield and B&O all...

And an Added bonus for you all the 4-8-2 Mountain I bought her to go with them.

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I haven't the foggiest idea what the differences in Pulman cars are. I bought my mother a 4 car set of pulman cars by MDC Roundhouse and I can't identify which one is which to save me now. I know the one with the funky yellow handrails on the back is the observation car, but there is...

Well the box definitely has a date with my dremel tool later. Right now I decided to go ahead and begin the painting of the car while I try and decipher the undercarriage details for it. The instructions for this thing are text only with some really fuzzy black and white images of the...