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Ouch hope no one was injured!!! Call in the NTSB:thumb:

I'm a American CNW fan myself but found this to be a great read. I just barley remember when I was young seeing Crummys tailing the CNW that ran alongside grandamas yard and the guys waving to us as they went by. I still love the sight of a old shack and anytime I see one in a museum I go in...

One thing I might mention also I made the mistake of using the pipe solder that I used to fix the pipes in the house BAD IDEA go to Radio Shack or somwhere and get real thin flux core solder otherwise you risk melting the plastic ties because you cant get enuf heat to melt the solder also Tin...

The basic's of blok wiring for us new guys is insulate one side of the track then run a wire from the power to a toggel switch then to the dead part of the track after the insulater you flip the switch it put power to the rail the train moves. Running extra feeders is always a good idea as it...

Since I have never been able to find any in my travels I found this one on the web that I think will be the one I want hope this helps

In my collection I have The new collected works of Prose and Poetry of Iowa Blackie Done and Been Steel Rail Chronicles of American Hobos Tales of the Iron Road "My life as King of the Hobos" Steam Train Maury Graham The Way of the Hobos by A-NO1< who traveled 5000,000 miles on $7.61 A History...

I know when I first got started I would see somthing I wanted real bad on Ebay and end up paying 3 times the going price because I didnt have any idea where the LHS was or how to get the Walthers Cat. Always check your prices and look things over well before you bid on Ebay so you dont end up...

I would like to add a scale house on my siding and have no idea how to go about it I am going to try my first card stock scratch build any plans for what I am doing I can use ? Like I said I have never built a scratch build so go easy on me:mrgreen:

The lead out tracks on the Otter Valley Club layout

when I first started MRRing I heard about this whole soldering thing so I grabbed the pipe solder out in the garage coulding figure out how to keep from melting ties and wire insulation till I went to RS and foud there was smaller solder to be had for just such applications wall1

Tell ya what mummeret you give me the addy to send it to I have a old Bachman box that I will give ya if you are wiling to pay the shipping all you would need to do is insulate one rail put a feeder wire to it and a 12 volt toggel switch from Wally World there you go!! Let me know if you are...

Was at the train show today when the wife walked up to me at one of the tables all she said was I dont wanna know and walked away when I asked her later she said I dont understand you spending all that money on your cho cho trains so I just dont ask. :cry: I told her I dont understand her...

Just one more reason to add to my I stopped drinking how many years ago because list!!!:rolleyes:

Ok I knew I had seen this before.. It was at the Depot in Fulda Minn. they were Mill. Road.. They never had anything to do with the CNW tho did they!!

Working in a scrap yard I get some intresting finds today I came acrost a a brass padlock for a switch I am assuming. It has the C.M.& St.P.RR on the back the latch cover is missing but all in all in good shape. Now for the question who were these guys I know I have seen the initials somwhere...

Welcome to the abord and I hope this leads to a long and happy Train experance for you.:thumb:

Ok you'r right they are in the UP yard thanks for the heads up Mike

I was walking the local yard the other day and there was a bunch of orange tubes sticking up between the ties didnt get any photos of them maby tom but any idea what they would be?

I bought some Caboose Indus. ground throws at the LHS the other day and didnt know I had unsprung throws, after reading some posts in here I see that I will have to add springs to these but how is this done.wall1 I try to thow the switch and the throw is moving almost as much as the turnout...

Just my thoughts First look into buying a better power supply as the Bachman boxes arnt made to do more then a short loop of track, if that isnt in the money right at the moment did you solder your rail joiners? If so you can solder more wires to the outside of the rails to make sure you have...