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No time at all. As a lone operator I just sequence. I might run for 10 minutes at a time and come back a few hours later and run for 1-2 hours. I just pick up where I left off.

I believe I got my first lead from the Altamont Press website. Either that or a post on Trainboard.

Workbench or layout...it's sometimes hard to tell the difference. One's just bigger than the other. I'm in the middle of disassembling some vehicles that I got from Wally World so I can Dullcote them and add passengers. I'm painting some LPB's and I am weathering a half dozen freightcars.

My dad collected and ran Lionel trains that dated back to his first set from 1937. He really didn't model, just ran them in complicated loops. As A kid in the 60's, he took me to see an HO layout owned by a man named Bill McClelland (think that's the correct spelling), a newspaper man in Dallas...

Just tuned in to this thread. Looking good so far. The backdrop down the middle will provide more modeling opportunities. Cement plant on one side, who knows what on the other side. Santa Fe hauled a lot of grain so an elevator might work for you. You must have somewhere else to store tools and...

For me it's easy and legal. A few miles from me the BNSF (formerly ATSF) mainline from Ft. Worth to Oklahoma City runs parallel to a state highway from Haslet to north of Denton TX. It includes a wye with KCS north of Krum, several passing sidings and spurs over to the Alliance Yard. A rural...

I do a section at a time. I can try newer techniques, my thought process and interest doesn't get stale, and I can run trains sooner. Although right now I have benchwork without track, benchwork with naked track, ballasted track without scenery or structures, etc. You get the picture.

ATSF - Nothing beats the various warbonnet paint schemes.

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Just logged on, I agree with Tileguy, PAINT THE RAILS AND TIES! In my opinion there is no better thing you can do to add realism. I am not sure how things look in your part of the world, or the part you are trying to model; in Texas the ballast is mostly gray to white and the ensuing "litter" on...

Like shaygetz, I have a box full of horn hook couplers that I would give away. For the most part I am happy with all of my purchases over the years. I do have about 200 50's-60's era freightcars and engines that I no longer use since I advanced my era, but I'm holding on to them for now since I...

What a tough question. Do I want some craftsman structure kits? A DCC system with someone else installing the decoders? Down payment on my planned new train building? Maybe I'll invest in a model railroad store. Of course I could always expand my freightcar and engine roster, or buy a lot of...

Boxcars, and covered hoppers also.

Trainroom=85% Benchwork=50% Trackwork/wiring=85% of benchwork, about 45% of planned trackwork Ballast/track weathering=65% of current trackwork Of about 120' of mainline/secondary route that is in place, I have scenery completed on 7' from front edge to backdrop. I have about 60% of the...

I have this one...it has trains on the included window inserts. http://www.rixproducts.com/hal.htm

Self designed. I started with a sketch of the room, drew in what looked like feasible benchwork, then added a rough track design. I made modifications as I test-fit the track using some buildings from a previous layout. So far (it's incomplete) I am happy with what I've done, although I started...

Fluesheet, that bench looks clean to me! That's what parts of my layout surface look like, I can't see the top of my workbench.

I live about five miles from the BNSF (formerly ATSF) mainline from Ft Worth to Oklahoma City. It carries at least 35 trains a day. That's where I do most of my photography. It's good for a lot of unit trains like intermodal, grain, and automobiles as well as Amtrak's Heartland Flyer and mixed...

Use the stiff plastic packaging like that on Atlas turnouts. Lots of other consumer goods come packaged in similar material.