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Tyson: everything's relative. Up here we're looking forward to a promised 50 degrees and rain today, to melt the snow we got Thursday when it was 28 degrees. Heck it's almost 40 already, at 8 am, and the snow's all gone !! rgds / Mike

Yes, boxes upon boxes of packrattery. Entire 16 x 13 layout sits on steel industrial shelving , and virtually every cubic inch has a plastic bin or box in it. My wife automatically gives me almost all the things that normal people put in the recycling bin, [or the landfill ]...sometimes, several...

Is part of the Conspiracy to conceal that using HO gauge track in 48:1 scale is really On31, or as close as you can get to it? JUST KIDDING folks....don't want to cause a "Code 100" alert out there. However, keep something in mind....once upon a time, there was only LGB in the so-called "G...

There's an alternative to online auctions [ let's face it, they didn't exist until recently], and that's real auctions. At least you can inspect what you wish to bid on. There are two well established annual MRR auctions up here, in our relatively sparsely populated area of central Ontario. One...

If you're looking at commercial dual gauge HO-HOn3 track, be prepared to take a deep breath, hold on to your chest, and wave goodbye to a great deal of $. You may also find you wait a long time to get it, as there's so little demand, even the distributors don't have it. Most dual gaugers...

The post stating ''whatever works for you, stay with it ", is the best advice. I do weight all my cars to NMRA spec., as I found it best for me to do so...I was having a problem with the odd 50ft express reefer tilting on curves, when directly behind the engine, and hauling fully weighted...

No offense here at all jon-monon, but I didn't know one could fix a LifeLike 0-6-0 at all. A bad 0-6-0 in a train set turned one of my grandsons off model railroading for good. A "Shining" example of why kids don't take up the hobby as much...and you must know a "Shining" when you see one, right...

When starting this thread, I think 'msh' was referring to the ongoing controversy / debate about whether those who do all their railroading on a computer-simulator program are actually "real" model railroaders or not. This is a touchy subject, and other forums have demonstrated that hard...

Fantasy ? Hey, Rich...fantasy to a lot of people, is the Eagles at 3-1, and the Rams at 0-4. Is Norm Van Brocklin back? Just kidding. Another thing...up here in Canada we have the CFL of course, but have to be envious at least of the sheer number of the cheerleaders...you've got 37 of them ...

If you have glued the wood together in it's 'raw' state, you may find that any transparent or semi-transparent wood stain will not 'take' to any areas where any glue residue has seeped out. This is also true of the alcohol/ink mix also, or any other mineral-based coating. There are a couple of...

As far as staining before gluing, it can be successful if you stain the original pieces of wood strips BEFORE cutting them to finish lengths..then you have clean wood where the glue is needed. This works fine with transparent stains like Minwax. I generally put the stain in a wine bottle, dip...

Great viaduct photo For a great viaduct photo, check the B&O RR Historical Society site, at www.borhs.org/images/photo-2.jpg I currently use this photo as my screen saver, [ but then again, I always use a B&O photo as a screen saver. ]

Best article I've seen on building a stone viaduct is J.C Myer's "Crossing Coolie Canyon", August 1978 MR. If you want to access the magazine index in Trains.com for a line on viaduct articles, you can try ''viaduct'' as a keyword, but there's not much there. If you type in ''stone arch''...

Please advise what NARA is..??...I assume from post signatures, that it means North American Rail Alliance, but what does it represent, and what does it do, and how does it function ?

For longer distances, a Vista-Dome might be nice. Park one of these over an abandoned ashpit, put a tank car beside it, and you now have another "industry" to add to your card order system...[ maybe don't model the conveyor in too detailed a fashion.]

Matt ; depending on your scale, the amount of '3D' detail you seek, and how far away from the viewer the building will be, there's a way to print window muntins on clear plastic, which can then be used in a building as the glazing itself. You create a "grid" on a blank worksheet in Microsoft...

more on paper backdrops Very good concept, I never thought of newspapers. There are other opportunities to make unique paper backdrops. I get old travel brochures and find likely buildings for distant scenes. Then I cut them close to finish size and arrange as many as possible on an 8 1/2 x 11...

More on styrene texturing Another way to 'texture' woodgrain into styrene, is with a small wire wheel in your corded or cordless power drill. The brass wire wheels are less aggressive than the steel ones. Also usable are the little sanding drums, and / or "flapper wheels" that fit a drill. For...

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Wow ! I guess I need sensitivity training. My choice of words was probably way too caustic. Thanks to Andy and Dave, who I think understood that my real intent was to steer modelers toward available articles in the model press. I am NOT an expert on wood trestles, I simply read everything I...