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I dunno Jon. Collectable or not, that all-metal one --- the first pic --- is a nice old thing, and deserves space on a display shelf. BillS

Jon, I can only speak to the open platform cars..... The two white body/black roof cars (one with the body upside down!) are MDC/Roundhouse Overton cars. The pukey green car with some spots of yellow and a gray roof, is an MDC/Roundhouse Overland car. These are still available new...

My sincere sympathy to the Spanish people. I agree with everything said above, but might add that TV and movie producers (all over the world) should be handed their fair share of disgust for their success at popularizing violence. It's difficult to find any media that doesn't feature...

My pleasure..... Let us know if you try that technique. BillS

I was wandering around Wickenburg, Arizona yesterday afternoon and came upon a nice sight..... A pretty little station, nicely restored, now used by the Chamber of Commerce. Plus a Santa Fe 2-8-0, with a 1900 Baldwin builders plate. In very nice condition (at least externally). Coupled to...

Perfect, Charlie. BillS

Blind drivers are common, particularly on locos with long driver wheelbases..... on model AND prototype locomotives. The more so on lines with sharp curves. I've always considered side play a problem, and like to put brass shims (to act as thrust bearings) between the inner hub of each wheel...

Phillip, This may be too late to be of any help, but thought I'd throw it out there..... By accident, while looking for old articles on turnout construction, I ran across this..... November, 1955, Model Railroader, page 32: "Repairing Shorted Drivers," by John Page, with the subtitle...

Russ, People on layout tours are invited guests. The layout owners are expecting them. Not quite the same thing. But I admit that even if I did have a layout worthy of a tour, I'd not be inclined to open my doors to one and all. I respect and admire and appreciate those who do, but...

Seems to me that Shamus needs a fiddle yard JUST FOR HIS LOCOMOTIVES! Gotta hand it to the Coon Creek shop gang. They keep some delightful old lokeys running --- probably with bailing wire. BillS

The same was true for individual modelers. Prior to a number of years ago the model rail magazines always printed addresses with names. Such as, "Here's a photo of a scratch-built 2-10-10-2 on the Bellygobbler and Western HO layout. Both are the work of Joe Blitzfik, of 123 4th Street...

Good thread idea. Just a couple of thoughts to keep the process rolling: An additional "purpose" for a layout might be listed as one that is intended primarily for photography. This wouldn't satisfy my needs, but it's a valid "purpose" and I suspect, if some layouts featured in some...

Those great cab-forwards (particularly the early, flat-faced ones) and the Daylights have always made me sorta wish I was modeling the SP. I guess I would if I weren't stuck in the 1880's. BillS

Okay..... Okay..... So I was ugly and my mother dressed me funny.....

It's a weed burner isn't it? BillS

Great shots, Chris. And like you, I wish I were there. I dunno tho. Seems like sound travels differently up there in the frozen north. I mean it sounds like "glang, glang, glang" to you. Down here, in the warmth, it always sounded like "clang, clang' clang'! Keep up the great work...

I have come to the conclusion that unless one is independently wealthy AND doesn’t care where their money goes, hand-laid track and turnouts, AND home-made turnout actuation is the only way to go. When you add up a $15 turnout, plus a $15 switch machine for every place you might want to move a...

My LHS has been moving more and more into G gauge and tinplate --- I suppose that's where the big money is. So I drive 20 miles to the Original Whistle Stop* in Pasadena, where they stock tons of detail parts, kits, AND bulk rail. I suspect the real reason Atlas used the wider code 83 is...

I agree with all the kudos for the moderators --- and for the membership of the Gauge. And remember: A difference of opinion is NOT criticism. I do find a few other forums informative, but the Gauge is "home." BillS

Closing the Super Bowl discussion Sorry, but I have to say that closing the Super Bowl (prudishness) discussion was an overreaction. I was about to come down on Will's side, and agree with him whole-heartedly on the misplaced, so-called "morality" the thought police seem to be foisting upon us...