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Bachmann also makes old time coaches, but the best quality ones you will find are the MDC Roundhouse kits.

Tunnel clearance...What a headache. I've already submitted an article about clearance in general, but the topic in this hobby is endless. Someone recently mentioned tunnels and I've been having nightmares about them ever since. It seems you always hear about someone having to delay a session...

Animation. Regardless of your chosen scale, it's what makes a scene of plastic, metal and wire come to life. Of everything we read on this site, as well as others, there's an acute lack of information being shared concerning moving objects in layouts. Animation seems to have been sacrificed...

Clearance Observations and Solutions from George…. Clearance is always a problem. Just when you think the problem is solved at one trouble spot, it rears it's ugly head in another form elsewhere. Let me share with you a little pain, history and a few solutions I've come up with over time. I...

Floyd, I suggest you install a flush flourescent lighting fixture in the ceiling above the layout, and another flourescent fixture on the bottom of the layout for times when it's suspended. I think you may be glad you did.:) George.

Tunnel Interiors. Hello Woodie! The painted foil is one of the fastest ways to do it. Go as far as you can see, as people always take a good gawk inside the tunnel, plus, they tend to like seeing the effect of the light from an approaching train. In an article years ago, I remember...

Unexplored Option. Hello Bywater. So, we all agree that you can't put 10 kilos of model railroad in a 2 kilo bag. Your space is tight, and as far as I'm concerned, grades shorten the lifespan of mechanisms. That's why I have avoided them for years. Speaking of shortening a life span...

Hello Michael I. Market for those big steamers? Sure there is. Perhaps there's little plastic because most of the people who go for BIG trains have BIG bucks to pay for them too. Hence, metal. I've seen the metal Mohawk to scale and let me tell you something. I'd feel better that if...

Hello MikeP! I'm really glad you went and enjoyed ROADSIDE AMERICA.:):D:) Since the old guard of model railroaders has changed, it would seem that RA has fallen off the scope of most people in the industry. In years past, it was constantly used as a reference in magazines, as well as...

Nice work, Jimmy! Where did you get the LRC coach? I saw 2 LRC's in July and they were in great shape, both in Montreal. I recently heard that there are 7-8 of them still running, but elsewhere I heard there are only 2 LRC power units still running. George.

Thanks for refreshing my memory that the company was Novatech. I'm sorry to hear he went out of business, he was a diversified plastics distributor, so I wonder what went wrong. I heard as well that it was a difficult model to put together, and the price for a finished one was out of...

W A T E R? Hello MikeP! Listen, you live in Buffalo? I want the recipe for wings from the Anchor Bar!!!:) Listen, getting back to WATER, since you live in Buffalo, here's what you do..... Take the family for a nice little trip to Pennsylvania Dutch Country...You know where it is...

UACTURBO! Greetings to another Hoser! I want one of these turbos in CN so bad, but I won't pay for a bum mechanism and crappy mold job just like you. The only people I can think of who would do the job with enough prodding from Canadian and "Hoserphile" modellers alike, might be...

Hello Grant, and Welcome Aboard! Grant, of all the problems I've ever experienced, or heard about with Athearn locomotives, surging has not been one of them. I'm a big fan of Athearn, but like everything else, nothing is perfect 100% of the time. Over the past ten years, there has been...

Let's hope they "flank & bank" the sides of the odd structure, so it doesn't look like one of those old styrofoam tunnels sitting on the rug!:p Then again, it would be kind of funny to see a replicant of the old classic styrofoam tunnel on a 1:1 railroad, wouldn't it?

Hello Bob! As you can see, everyone's got a different purpose for a tunnel. Beyond adding flavour to the layout, they're extremely useful for everything from hiding sharp unrealistic curves and staging yards, to providing more space for an urban scene. Take a gander in The Archive. I wrote...

PM. It works. Biggerhammer and I have bantered back and forth with it without any trouble. Was incommunicado for a while. As Woodie says, "I went walkabout." George:)

Gee Andy, I drink too, and I never crashed my skidoo and died! But then again I don't have a skidoo...... But then again, I HAVE crashed my train while stone cold sober....AND DIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! George.

Woodie, I was sitting on top of the tube waiting for another story. Work is a curse, but you learn everything from it. Toronto isn't ready for anything like the olympics. They may have the CN Tower (which I love), but you can't sponsor a large event like that in a place where they roll up...

Biggerhammer, If you want a piece of history that needs a lot of work, Metro North RR in New York has two New York Central coaches which rode in the consist for the 1941 inaugural run for the Empire State Express. As you probably know, the event was overshadowed by another event on that...