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A Z scale club?!?? I like Z, and my wife has started into Z, but a club? Wow, you folks must have quite a number of Z enthusiasts to build a club! I look forward to seeing every one of you!

This is an email I sent to IM, and included the pics I posted above: To Whom It May Concern: As a regular customer for your great N freight car products, I eagerly stepped up for a Tunnel Motor unit, even though the road I model, BN, never owned any such units. I had watched various...

I appreciate it, guys, but I am flying from Cheyenne, to WF. I will be driving from WF to Plano, though.

Welcome aboard, Pray59! When I built my GN Ocean View Great dome lounge: I used Tamiya clear green acrylic paint. I airbrushed it on the underside of the dome glass casting, full-strength from the bottle--too opaque. I then took a q-tip moistened lightly with 91% alky, and painstakingly...

I really don't see where you'd put a liftout, where you wouldn't have such a lot of track to cut, and be able to run thru. My liftout has one track, and getting that one track 'dialed-in' and tweaked for reliable use, took a couple weeks of off and on tinkering. A roll-under is a good option...

If you build the loadout track around a hill, the hill itself could camouflage the tighter radii. (12-15" rad?) Coal trains have short length cars, unlike autoracks, and the engines avail. in N are readily able to handle such a tight curve. I know you already have the benchwork up, but I am...

Shown for length comparison: Kato SD40-2, much shorter than T-2! But it seems the Kato mech weighs more.. Curious...

The pics I am about to post don't do the model justice....

My old layout in Minot, ND was 17x9'.... I like the mainline layout. It gives so much more run! The coal flood loader track? I am thinking it should be a bit further from the mainline. As in, more scenery between it and the main. I like the first plan, since the fload loader is separated...

Great engines, Gavin! Last I checked, a C30-7 wan't an SD-anything...:rolleyes: :cool: Smolderz, Those locos are incredible! And they are Z???? AZL, I take it..

Here's a few of mine: Snoot Kato, chop nosed: Stock SD40-2, with custom BN Tigerstripes paint job: Stock Atlas SD60:

Only 4 pass cars? You need at LEAST 10 to make it look realistic! That poor credit card....

Very nice! Is it yours, or a customer's? It sure will stand out among that flood of black and white!

The GS-4 Daylight is the no-brainer. Get a set of pass cars, painted in Daylight livery, and run them thru Canada's best scenery! Doubleheaded?:thumb:

Great progress! Gotta love the BN 'Deuce'! What's your track plan look like?

I'll be there the 17th, on Saturday.

Score! While Santa wasn't as loaded down when he came to my tree, he was still good to me! 2 High-hood B23-7 engines--to be kitbashed into BN B30-7A's, the cabless units. 2 GN Big Sky Blue Intermountain ACF 3-bay hoppers, MT GN 56' tanker, Delux Innovations (old) Northern Pacific woodchip...

I know, it's a bit early, and I am going down on business, to Wichita Falls. I love to meet other model railroaders, see their layouts, and doing it all at a show is even better! Who's with me? The more the merrier!

John, I have a 10X optical lens on my Fujifilm Finepix S5000. The macro will really get close, as seen here: (an N scale SD70MAC in Alaska RR)