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welcome aboard !

back to topic.... it might sound harsh but it's out of my experience. if you don't have the money to get the very best products then better stay off n scale. it might be a very annoying experience otherwise. been there done that. for locos there's nothing better than kato. second place...

what happened here ???? help...someone please delete the duplicates....

mike... somewhere i must have the 49 nokl cars as well..... :-)

looks like you used a brush to do the weathering. i'm sorry but on the left side the rusty streaks look a bit too heavy/thick. you might try to use chalk or powder instead. imho this gives finer streaks... but of course this is only my opinion. btw, nice weathering on the car. especially...

parker..... too bad i was not aware you're from edmonton. been ther in july... just a few days before i met mike haggarty (sd90) and grant eastman. would have been fun to say hallo.

you might run into problems if you run older european models.

....for some of my ac4400. 98 different roadnumbers :D for once i don't have to renumber any of the cars. thought i post these pics here as well. not sure if you are registered at trainboard or atlas as well.

sean... i was able to get a few of these atlas axels. so far around 50 cars have mt trucks with atlas axles. they sound great, run well. unfortunately they tend to derail at turnouts. also running long trains on tight curves causes way more derailments than with the original mt axles (not...

flat dog try to avoid any curves with radius less than 15". try to avoid steep grades. probably not more than 2.5% otherwise do whatever you like.

most of my cars are just a tad heavier than what nmra recommends.

ac4400 painted for cp rail

to all ..... would you please avoid using 'ss' as short for screwysquirrel ? the abbreviation 'ss' has some bad history here in europe. unfortunately these kind of forces are growing stronger again.

so far i used scalecoat and scalecoat 2. mostly i use some thinner by just pouring some into the paint. i don't care if it's 1:2 or 1:4 or somewhere in between. like ray said, disassemble the model and wash it with water and soap. but don't use the kind of soap which has some lotion in it as...

as far as i see there are no reverse loops. wiring for dcc could be done by two wires only. however, i'd strongly recommend to use feeder wires every two feet or so. most problems with dcc are because of not enough feeders.

why don't you just fill the yellow area with ballast ?

brakie a few months back there was a discussion on the atlas forum on how to hide a drive in a boxcar. might be this trix unit was not alone. so far i don't know a n scale engine pulling 70. not even my brass big boy has this power.

i used peco code55 on my layout. tough and reliable track. no problems so far with any diesel loco going over switches. some steam locos might have tracking promblems on tight switches.

just got the first 4 of my ac4400 (didn't know i had some on order at pwrs). so there are still 50 to come... well, what can i say ? my custom painted c44 definitely look better. i assume kato once more screwed the paint job by using the wrong red. cp rail ac4400 have lots of warning stickers...

mike check this http://www.mcr5.org/speed.htm