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FINALLY, I managed to find a copy yesterday at a nearby hobby shop. Walthers had not yet received their August issues as of this past Tuesday--I was there in person then. Paul, you do fabulous work. Thank you for giving us the heads up to look for it. Your trackplan is similar to one I...

Track Problems When cleaning track, make sure you do NOT use steel wool. The motor magnets attract the "leftovers"; it destroys the motor. You mentioned grandkids. Is your track down permanently on a board? I worked in a hobby shop for a couple of years. A fellow in a similar situation...

Thank you Thanks, Mike, for the additional explanatory post and for the "Buy & Sell" reference. There are plenty of days I wish I had a digital camera, too. Maybe with a computer upgrade I hope will come this next year. I am planning bridges for my HO logging line right now, so your posts...

Well, we now know who ought to be doing the next weathering clinic! Positively great. --Stu--

Layout Planning Agonies We all agonize over parts of our layout plans. I worked mine out with Cadrail. Boone Morrison, who writes a great column for the Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette, detailed the process of planning and executing a waterfront town scene on his HOn3 North Coast Narrow...

I ran into a couple of those nitpickers once on a layout tour. I asked them about their layouts and mentioned that I'd really enjoy seeing one such as they must have. They got sort of quiet and then admitted that neither had a layout. I freelance, although I do rely on Soo Line plans and...

WOW ! Robin, that's one terrific piece of work! Your loading dock gives me some ideas for framing one out at my paper mill. Okay, for those of us not familiar with the terms, what's an LPB? ... and, what is "cerealboard? Is it like bristol board or some other sort of finished card...

This is getting to be one very interesting thread! My HO steam logging layout is under construction in my 12 ft. X 13 ft. carpeted den. It shares space with my rather large desk, a file cabinet, and some built-in display cabinets. Those cabinets made for some interesting height-of-layout...

GREAT BRIDGES Great bridges, Mike. So good, in fact, that I'd like to ask you to post a straight-down-from-the-top view. I am expanding my HO logging layout and need a couple of wood trusses for the "woods line". I'll be laying track most of the winter, but want to at least plan the bridges...

Finding KCS Models Welcome back to HO Scale !! You'll find a great, great deal of infomation through the web, and the variety of models offered today is positively staggering. I went to the Walthers search engine at http://www.walthers.com/exec/page/search and ran a search using the...

Maine Narrow Gauge I have Don Clerke's article from the March 1982 MR (including trackplan) open in front of me right now. I found it just before lunch. Frary's and Hayden's articles ae terrific--I read many of the originals in RMC in the 70's. Please do not overlook their books about...

MAINE NARROW GAUGE ON THE WATERFRONT Well, Bob, I took a look at what I've got here and am not at all sure I have what you're after. One really neat Maine-based plan I did find was "The Maine & Vermont RR" in 18 Tailor-made Trackplans , by John Armstrong, Kalmbach, c.1983, 1988. It's designed...

REPLY TO MasonJar No, Andrew, I've not seen any of the Booth material. Down here in the States, we do get to see some logging (like Cass) and some great logging model railroads (like the Columbia Gorge Club's system in Washington State) on Public Television's "Tracks Ahead" program. Actually...

MODELING IN THE KITCHEN Just do not EVER mistake the powdered, rust colored pastel chalk for the cinnamon for the oatmeal or the Durham's Water Putty for powdered creamer! Trust me on this. The structure looks great! Do we get a photo of the finished item...

I like the weathering on the water tank !!! Nice locos need nice settings for their work. --Stu--

About what size room are we talking about? And, for what scale? I can check my own library this weekend. Any idea whether the plan book was recent or older? --Stu--

Coupler Preferences I model in HO and have used Kadees exclusively for many years. I use their regular line on most of my equipment, but use their #711 on my logging equipment. I was working in a hobby shop when many of the newer brands made their respective debuts. Our N Scale customers...

Thank you, Shamus. Many thanks for the outstanding tutorial. Just a couple of quick questions remain: 1. About what diameter are the clock gears you used? 2. What is the diameter of the tubing you used for cylinders? You make it look so very easy...

Like most of you, I try to stay out of the "my scale is better than your scale" discussions. One of the few disgusting moments I've had in model ralroading happened as a few of us waited to get into the train room of a guy who had volunteered to be part of the layout tours at a recent NMRA...

The donkey looks terrific !!! Did you work from a plan on this one, or is it a freelanced model? I've only done a couple of donkeys, and those were about decade ago. My best was okay, but not great. How about some insight, Shamus, on where to get good parts (I'm in HO), where to get good...