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I spotted a box late tonight on one an old Atlas flatcar between a couple of nasty looking automobiles. Looks like the kids were playing... :) No really...honest :p

Hello, my name is John. I'm not a train-a-holic. Nope. Not even in the slightest. :rolleyes: I'm not a collector, I use these trains. :D (and rolling stock, and trains and cars and trains, and, oh! don't forget about the steamers, and, uh.... :oops: ) This thread reminds me of a...

Mine's a Minolta dImage 7hi. Got it late last spring...incredible camera. The macro mode is pretty fun on this camera... -- John

What a heck of a way to run...

Fifer, Thanks for posting those pics! They're very inspiring. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: Is it just me, or are those wires taken from sections of CAT-5 network cabling? -- John

Hmm.....rail...rail...rail.... Nagging! :eek: :D :eek: :D :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: -- John

I like the MT cars and have a number of them. Their level of detail is incredible! I also have a number of Atlas (some recent, some from the mid-1970's), InterMountain, a couple of DeLuxe, some Con-Cor and a Red Caboose or two. And Bachmann :oops: I've had problems with the Accu-mate...

Let's see... an MT stock car an Atlas 8-40BW, red & silver warbonnet sporting "Santa Fe" some MT couplers and that's about it! I've got some stuff on order that hasn't shown up yet...does that count? :D Got my son a Atlas SP U25B (they have one of these up at a rail museum near...

George, thanks for posting the link to your site. I really like the "A1G" section, as I have couple of those cars which managed to survive what my brother and I inflicted upon them whilst we were growing up :D -- John

Mike, thanks for the comments. I gave the building a light rubdown with and it seemed better. Then I mixed up a brownish wash, thinned it out quite a bit, and gave that a go. It seemed to reduce the amount of "soot" on the building a little bit. I'll see what I can manage tonight when I...

I found a Bachmann HO set on serious clearance at Wally World a few years ago, and bought it in a moment of weakness as I model N scale. It turns out this was a good thing for my boys. It gave them something they could practice setting on the track and learning how to be careful with the...

Well, considering my current train board consists of a couple of concentric ovals, I'm just running trains :) If I were interested in operations, where would be a useful place to determine the what, how and why? -- John

hmmm Grrrr.... :mad: About the only thing missing from that file is the TYPE of the car... :mad: -- John

Ahh... (light coming on)... Have you checked out this page? http://www.micro-trains.com/data_bases.htm The Sorted "N Scale Release" It doesn't go back too far (starts at Dec 2001), but the Unsorted one is 30 pages of mish-mash. There is a link at the bottom of the page to download a MS...

Hi Coachsig, It looks like they're now using PDF files, which makes reading them a bit easier since Acrobat Reader is free. Here's a link: http://www.micro-trains.com/conversions_.htm I've also found the information at nscalesupply.com helpful...

Sears catalogs?!?!?!! :confused: *WHAP* (sound of hand hitting head) Why didn't I ever think of that before... :D -- John

Not sure, but she does have fairly long hair which gets everywhere. Odd thing is her father was all black and her mom all white. She had the best color of the litter. Didn't get a chance to work on the mercantile today...I went on a locomotive hunt instead :D -- John

It was a simple wash of acrylic paint. I'll try going it over with just some water and a sponge and see what happens. It's been a long time since I've done much modeling. The dog is a German Shepherd. I was playing around with the camera a while back and got a good picture of a snoot lick :)

GODZILLA ATTACKS! My 7 year old son wanted to try painting something, so he decided to paint one of his dinosaurs. He selected a yellow one, and I helped him give it a coat of white to act as a base coat. He then decided that it needed to be orange, so he tried painting it one evening. Then...

A BN Hopper A BN hopper...messing around with weathering...