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I have a Stewart F-7 A-B set in Clichfield livery and I have recently installed a MDC AD370 Sound decoder in it. I had to put the speaker in the B unit due to space limitations and the fact that the huge metal frame of the Stewart Locos (great for pulling power mind you) takes up all availible...

MRC makes a 60 dollar sound decoder in both steam and diesel sounds. I have not used the steam decoder as of yet but I have installed three of the diesel decoders and the sounds are not all that bad. However I do dislike the engine sound itself, it is just a bit too tinny for my tastes but...

another of the tyco crowd here, way back in 1976 when I was 3 years old no less Mine was the Tyco "Spirit of '76" diesel train in Seaboard Coast Line markings that came with 4 or 5 cars and a figure 8 of track. I would love to one day find one of those on Ebay and put it on display...

Well I did a major cleanup of the layout table so I could actually see what I was modelling for a change. I also glued down a few trees , I picked up a coupld of new Cars and my new Clinchfield 4-4-0. (I traded in my old Chessie Equipment for credit). I am still trying to get IHC to...

Clinchfield #32 rounds the bend

I was curious if any of you out there have ever bought anything from our LHS that was a non standard item such as a locomotive redone in a different railroad or the like. I just purchased an IHC 4-4-0 relettered to be Clinchfield #32. The LHS owner knows a person who occasionally will do...

Don't laugh, I have actually tried something similar. Believe it or not it actually does work pretty well. I used a bucket with some dirt in it though instead of the yard

I used a brownish grey tile grout followed by Aquarium charcoal on these three cars to get these effects. Total time to weather all three. maybe 30 minutes. BTW if anyone could help me identify the type of hoppers these are I would appreciate it as I would like to get about 8 more of...

and one lasrt one to show the various random effects that occur

Photo #2 of another coal hopper

Photo # 1 A coal hopper

I like to call this technique the Shake and Bake method. What you do is take a powder such as tile grout or aquarium filter carbon or some other suitable color and put it into a gallon size freezer bag. Add you item to be weathered such as a piece of rolling stock or a loco shell...