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There's no silver in it...it's actually brass with half the zinc replaced with nickel. See jim currie's post #29 in this thread

It's intermittent here at 5:50 am Sunday. Main page came up quickly but then things slowed waaaay down. Didn't have that problem yesterday.

A year ago I was in the 10% range. I'm now up to 25%. I might be further along if I didn't spend so much time on "The Gauge". HAHA. Or I might not have been so inspired without "The Gauge". Hard to decide...doctorwayne's pictures have really kicked me in the pants lately.

Check out story #8 here http://railroadnews.net/archives/11-26.html

I agree with ls1gto to some extent. My railfanning began with the Santa Fe during the transition from "cigar band" to "warbonnet" on freight locomotives, back in the 70's. It was always interesting to see F-units lashed up to GP's and SD's. Santa Fe had plenty of all three, along with those...

Whoops, only the first one made it, here's the other one.

Hey Richard, here's a couple of pictures of the building that I'm working on. It's only a background building. By the way, will your layout be open for the Plano show in January? I was unable to come by during the Ft, Worth show.

Thanks Kevin, I will be making lots of these since my layout represents Texas flatlands. I've thought for years about how to do this...so easy!

Fran, what is the working life of the EZ Water? I have a package that I haven't used yet and my layout room is a considerable distance from the closest source of heat.

Like many others, she's glad it isn't bar-hopping or wild women that I'm into. She doesn't really pay much attention to it other than a few comments here and there. Rarely visits the train room that's located in a building about 200 feet from the house. Recently she started to go to trainshows...

Wayne, I don't get to this forum on a regular basis but after seeing your work it will be my first stop now. Great scenery, great photos, great storylines. I look forward to more, they are all an inspiration for me to kick my own scenery attempts into high gear. Thanks for the opportunity to see...

I'm still interested in your list on this one.

More groundcover mainly around the bases of the trees. I would use some fieldgrass around the perimeter of the shack also. Maybe some additional foliage on the lower limbs of the trees. I believe in people (or animals) in my scenes but I don't know what effects you are after in this scene. What...

I use some ground throws to operate turnouts. All of the commercial turnouts are made to have the throws on the straight side, but I have reversed some to the diverging side in my yards due to clearance factors. Which side do the real railroads use? Is there a standard or is it dependent on the...

My model RR is in a non-climate controlled room attached to my barn. Temperature ranges from 20 - 110 degrees here in North Texas. I learned from a previous layout to only lay track when temperatures were between 60 and 85 degrees. Track layed at lower temperatures always buckled in the summer...

I have used pennies for a few years, I use Walthers Goo to hold them together as well as attaching them to the cars. It's about 1/10th the cost of A-Line weights.

My experience is that the kits from Athearn, Roundhouse, Accurail, and Walthers are all reasonably priced and easy to build. They all lack fine details but are rugged and durable. Extra details can be added later on as your modeling skills improve. I have built many Proto 2000 kits...they are...

Well said shaygetz. At age 53 I can relate to everything you wrote, but life isn't all that bad, at least not where I live. The school district where my children went to school still provides bus drivers with paddles and no parents complain. We can leave windows open day and night without any...

I got mine and have watched most of it. I for one appreciated it and will send them the nine dollars. Yea a lot of it looked like rehashed old stuff. I already know the F&SM had expanded but this was the first video I had seen of it and really enjoyed it, although it wasn't long enough. I liked...

That much stuff would keep me busy a year...I'm jealous.